As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the Secretary of State is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the Federal Government of the United States, after the President and Vice President and is fourth in line to succeed the Presidency, coming after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President pro tempore of the Senate.

The President pro tempore ( or ), also president pro tem, is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate.

While the president pro tempore does have other official duties, the holders of the office have, like the vice president, over time ceased presiding over the Senate on a daily basis, owing to the mundane and ceremonial nature of the position.

While a president pro tempore emeritus has no official duties, he is entitled to an increase in staff and advises party leaders on the functions of the Senate.

Such conduct becomes bribery only when there is an identifiable exchange between the contribution and official acts, previous or subsequent, and the term quid pro quo denotes such an exchange.

The team has no official relation to future Buffalo pro football franchises: the Buffalo Indians and Tigers of the third American Football League, the Buffalo Bisons of the AAFC, or the Buffalo Bills of today which was one of the new AFL teams ( formation announced in 1959 ) that first played in 1960.

His official office while in Cyprus was Quaestor pro Praetore ( an extraordinary Quaestorship with Praetorian powers )

The discussions to reach a standard Interlingua may be seen on the pages of Discussiones, the official journal of the Academia pro Interlingua from 1909 to 1913.

It was at Horrigan's insistence that the merged leagues retained AFL team, coaching, and player records / statistics as official pro football records.

Aime Benard was chosen as leader pro tem of the party on August 15, 1915, and Albert Prefontaine was chosen as the official parliamentary leader shortly thereafter.

The official journals of the " Academia " were " Discussiones " ( 1909 – 13 ), " Circulares " ( 1915 – 24 ), and " Academia pro Interlingua " ( 1925 – 27 ).

When Miller acquired Meister Brau's labels the recipe was reformulated and relaunched as " Lite Beer from Miller " ( which was its official name until the mid 80s ) in the test markets of Springfield, IL, Knoxville, TN and San Diego, CA in 1973, and heavily marketed using masculine pro sports players and other macho figures of the day in an effort to sell to the key beer-drinking male demographic.

Kansas turned pro in 1911 and lost just two official decisions in his first 75 fights.

* In 2004 pro shoot wrestling received official sport status in western Canada and was eligible for licensing.

It was then published as an official liturgical book of the Church with the name Ordo Rituum pro Ministerii Petrini Initio Romae Episcopi ( Order of the Rites for the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome ).

Black is an official pro at Full Tilt Poker.

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As of July 2007, an official portable version of the xplorer² pro is available for use from a external storage device only.

This is not an official position within the Senate ; however, the President pro tempore is customarily the longest-serving member of the majority party.

Although cheap and effective in enabling use of some software that only used official ROM entry points for text output, this solution proved very slow because the Electron had to be placed into an 80-byte-pitch display to be able to get anywhere near to reproducing mode 7 and the CPU spent a lot of time drawing approximations of mode 7 characters and graphics that in a hardware solution would be achieved without any CPU processing.

Ronald Syme points out the similarity of Crassus ' removal from the official record with that of Cornelius Gallus, the contemporary disgraced governor of Egypt, who was recalled by Augustus for assuming inappropriate honours.

Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.

These two texts made clear the need for a new official English translation of the Roman Missal, particularly because the previous one was at some points an adaptation rather than strictly a translation.

Game points, set points, and match points are not part of official scoring and are not announced by the chair umpire in tournament play.

In 2012 Carlisle was one of the official stop off points for the Olympic torch before it made its way down to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in London's Olympic Stadium.

In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

Another poet from this generation, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founded the City Lights Bookstore that still exists today on the corner of Broadway and Columbus as an official historic landmark and serves as one of the main focal points of this generation.

These two texts made clear the need for a new official English translation of the Roman Missal, particularly because the previous one was at some points an adaptation rather than strictly a translation.

There was a separate 2-way road on each side, and cars had to pass through the official crossing points, but pedestrians could readily step over the wall ( although there were signs informing of the border ).

Its East boundary is the Dutch-German border and Eibergen used to count two official border crossing points on main roads and a small number of border crossing points for limited use on secondary roads.

According to ancient historian Meander Protector, a minor official in Justinian's court, there were 12 points to the treaty, stated in the following passage:

GM and IM titles can only be gained by participating in the official World Chess Solving Championship ( WCSC ): to become a GM, a solver must score at least 90 percent of the winner's points and on each occasion finish in at least tenth place three times within ten successive WCSCs.

The arcade cabinets have since become fairly rare. Stan Szczepanski holds the official world record of 187, 880 points.

The memo, however, underlines that the President of Iceland has no political power and that no government official has presented similar points of view " to the same degree ".

The author of the Lettre de Pierre Charpentier ( 1572 ) was not only " a Protestant of sorts, and thus, apparently, writing with inside knowledge ", but also " an extreme apologist for the massacre ... in his view ... a well-merited punishment for years of civil disobedience secret sedition ..." A strand of Catholic writing, especially by Italian authors, broke from the official French line to applaud the massacre as precisely a brilliant stratagem, deliberately planned from various points beforehand.

Linguist Geoffrey Pullum, in an essay entitled " Here come the linguistic fascists " charges English First with " hatred and suspicion of aliens and immigrants " and points out that English is far from under threat in the United States, saying " making English the official language of the United States of America is about as urgently called for as making hotdogs the official food at baseball games.

Dragon kill points are not official currencies, but are created and managed by endgame guilds to manage distributions of rewards in those raids.

The Latin text, which became the official text of reference ( editio typica ), amended the contents of the provisional French text at a few points.

The official journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Comments 2005 end-of-the-year film critics ' poll, placed the film as the second best film of that year, with 668 points.

Hamilton quickly learned about the existence of this letter ( another British reporter, Henry Nevinson, has been blamed for this, but his biography points to an official Royal Navy war photographer ).

It is unique among British weeklies in providing authoritative coverage of official statistics and its rankings of international statistics have been decisive.

The magazine's rankings are recognized as " official " by some in the U. S. media, particularly ESPN.

The Harrier Magazine, operated by Marc Bloom formerly of Runners World Magazine began keeping official rankings in 1989.

These rankings, the first attempt to take into account results from professional tours around the world, were not official during that era, but they eventually evolved into the current Official World Golf Ranking, starting in 1986.

He is also ranked second in official rankings of state and party leaders according to his qualifications in the Party.

It was introduced as an official set of rankings in the September 2006 issue.

At the time of his final Grand Slam appearance at the US Open on September 2, 2009, Safin was No. 58 in the official world men's tennis rankings.

Previously the university had refused to endorse an official table, leading to inaccuracies ( see Criticisms below ), so the university finally published its own rankings using examination results from all final year undergraduates in 2005.

The Pumas are currently ranked eighth in the official world rankings.

However, if two or more players are eliminated in one hand, and both players started the hand with identical chip counts, the players will be tied in official rankings.

The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour.

When the official rankings were only calculated once a year, players and pundits closely tracked the ranking points earned during a season.

The " provisional rankings " ( which had no official status in the game ) were the rankings based on the ranking points accumulated in the previous season, combined with those accumulated thus far in the current season, and as the season progressed they converged on the official rankings for the following season.

* Current official world rankings

This entitled him to be listed on official rankings, although he could not play in most competitions.

DVD sales have been good, with various of them appearing in official Japanese rankings.

In early 2007 Smith's South Africans replaced Australia on top of the official ICC rankings for ODI cricket but returned to second place after mixed results in the 2007 ICC World Cup thus far after losing to Australia by eight wickets.

The quality of the medical curriculum is comparable among Polish universities, and subject to regular official inspections and rankings.

The Chinese High School was one of the top high schools in Singapore, having been consistently ranked among the top four schools according to the Ministry of Education's annual official rankings.