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The emperor's role became more autocratic, although Zhu Yuanzhang necessarily continued to use what he called the " Grand Secretaries " ( 内阁 ) to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, including memorials ( petitions and recommendations to the throne ), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.

In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents and railroad accidents.

Beginning in the summer of 2004, and continuing throughout the fourth season, there were reports that William Shatner would reprise the role of James T. Kirk or perhaps an ancestor in the series, but an agreement could not be reached.

Both houses of Congress responded with committee investigations and reports affirming the historical precedents for the Bank's constitutionality and its pivotal role in furnishing a uniform currency.

In May 2010, there were reports that Weaver had been cast for the lead role Margaret Matheson in the Spanish thriller film Red Lights.

Studies and reports include the effects of consolidation of public accounting firms, the role of credit rating agencies in the operation of securities markets, securities violations and enforcement actions, and whether investment banks assisted Enron, Global Crossing and others to manipulate earnings and obfuscate true financial conditions.

Despite press reports of interest from Arsenal, and the offer of a player-manager role by Southend United, Robson left Fulham in 1967 and accepted a three-year deal with Canada's Vancouver Royals.

In 2002, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers said " while there are reports of children participating in hostilities, there is no evidence of systematic recruitment by armed groups the Occupied Territories ", with less than 1 % of Palestinian adolescents having played an active role in clashes with Israeli troops.

The media plays a large role in DKR, with the narrative broken up by news reports and " talking head " editorials debating events in the story as they unfold.

After four out of five quarterly earnings reports were below expectations, Rollins resigned in 2007 and founder Michael Dell assumed the role of CEO again.

" In addition, much of the mythology of the Charge arose from newspaper reports ; Pickett was the only Virginia commander of his rank, and the Virginia newspapers played up their native son's role and made the assault a more glamorous " charge ".

The House Rules provide that the Chairman of a Committee presides over its meetings, maintains decorum and ensures that the Committee adheres to the House Rules governing Committees and generally acts in an administrative role respective to such issues as determining salaries of committee staff, issuing congressional subpoenas for testimony and issuing committee reports.

He reports that labour history has been mostly pragmatic, eclectic and empirical ; it has played an important role in historiographical debates, such as those revolving around history from below, institutionalism versus the social history of labour, class, populism, gender, language, postmodernism and the turn to politics.

According to Tacitus, Macro even played an active role in bringing about Caligula's rise to power by ordering Tiberius to be killed after it was revealed that reports of his death had been premature: Caligula had begun to take power immediately upon hearing that Tiberius had died of natural causes but without confirming that Tiberius had indeed died.

Perhaps unique in the world because of its role, size, and reach, Xinhua reports directly to the party's Propaganda Department ; employs more than 10, 000 people — as compared to about 1, 300 for the UK's Reuters, for example ; has 107 bureaus worldwide both collecting information on other countries and dispensing information about mainland China ; and maintains 31 bureaus in China — one for each province plus a military bureau.

The part had to be slightly rewritten for Siddig as the original " bible " had called for an Hispanic male to play the part, named Julian Amoros, although Berman reports that no other actors were considered for the role.

Weather reports also play a very important role in local news as they are found in every local newscast.

In its role as a Chinese language platform it reports news, current affairs, analysis and opinion.

They show he sent admiring reports to Washington about the Honduran military chief, who was blamed for human rights violations, warned that peace talks with the Nicaraguan regime might be a dangerous " Trojan horse " and pleaded with officials in Washington to impose greater secrecy on the Honduran role in aiding the contras.

Some reports state that she returned to the South in her role as a spy dressed in male uniform for references.

The news reports at the time noted Burton in the role of La Forge following Burton's role in Roots.

Jordan declared that the event, as well as reports that the item he had stolen were a pair of women's knickers, was a frame-up, but soon after he resigned as leader of the BM to take on an advisory role.

Early reports suggested that one of Ajith's roles in the film would be a eunuch or a transgender, but the role eventually turned out to be that of a classical dancer.

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

The wager between God and Satan brings on the destiny of Faust, but Faust assumes his role voluntarily.

He went on to say: `` In the first place, industry per se is not dedicated to the role of savior of foundering municipalities.

In addition, the neocortical-hypothalamic relations play a great role in primates, as Mirsky's interesting experiment on the `` communication of affect '' demonstrates.

Our technical assistance to these countries should place special emphasis on inducing the central governments to assume the role of advisor and guide which at an earlier stage foreign experts assumed in dealing with the central governments.

To those raised on Marcel's Homo Viator and Heidegger's das Nichtige, this may seem a modest role for philosophy.

When dealing with the actual relation of philosophy to the sociology of knowledge, or better the role of philosophy in assisting research on the social sources of ideas, one has to become necessarily selective.

And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

These normally play an important role in controlling the growth of algae and also forage on detritus that accumulates as sediment on the bottom.

He served in that role for more than five years, making six tours, and traveling more than annually on the Indian frontier of Texas.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.

Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi.

In the early 1990s, the latter group blamed Armenia's economic woes on the role played by the former in closing major industries.

He went on to propose controversial constitutional amendments on the role of parliament.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

As this expansion into current languages ( mainly Italian and French ) and current topics continued, the press took on another role and made perhaps even more important contributions.

Normally, the bishop of Hereford would have led the defence in the absence of an Earl of Hereford, but in 1049 the incumbent, Æthelstan, was blind, so Ealdred took on the role of defender.

Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >