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Balfour's and appointment
Austen's appointment was largely a compromise solution to the bitter division of the two Unionist heavyweights, which threatened to split the coalition between supporters of Chamberlain's Imperial Tariff campaign and Balfour's more cautious advocacy of protectionism.
Hooker declined a chair at Glasgow University which became vacant on Balfour's appointment.

Balfour's and cabinet
One of these children was H. O. Arnold-Forster, a Liberal Unionist member of parliament, who eventually became a member of Balfour's cabinet.
One of these children was Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster, a Liberal Unionist member of parliament, who eventually became a member of Balfour's cabinet.
In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for Croydon ( 1895 1906 ), he was President of the Board of Trade ( 1895 1900 ) and Home Secretary ( 1900 1902 ); and when Sir Michael Hicks-Beach retired in 1902, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Balfour's cabinet.
In 1903 he entered Balfour's cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year.

Balfour's and Lord
Lord Balfour's desk, in the Beth Hatefutsoth | Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, in Tel Aviv
At the same time, Balfour tried to balance the two factions by accepting the resignation of three free-trading ministers, including Chancellor Ritchie, but the almost simultaneous resignation of the free-trader Duke of Devonshire ( who as Lord Hartington had been the Liberal Unionist leader of the 1880s ) left Balfour's Cabinet looking weak.
Balfour's service as Foreign Secretary was most notable for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild promising the Jews a " national home " in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
Blanche Dugdale, Lord Balfour's niece, a fellow diner, prophetically said in an agonised voice-" What will happen to the millions fleeing from Hitler?
From 1895 to 1902 he was a member of Lord Salisbury's and Arthur Balfour's Unionist ministries as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Balfour's and who
Begbie wrote as one who disagreed strongly with Balfour's political views, but even his one-sided criticisms do not entirely conceal another facet of Balfour's personality, his shyness and diffidence.
Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England.

Balfour's and had
By 1905 relatively few Unionist MPs were still free traders ( the young Winston Churchill crossed over to the Liberals in 1904 when threatened with deselection at Oldham ), but Balfour's long balancing act had drained his authority within the government.
Numerous pieces of legislation were vetoed or altered by amendments between 1906 and 1909, leading David Lloyd George to remark that the Lords had become " not the watchdog of the Constitution, but Mr. Balfour's poodle.
After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.
Balfour had been becoming increasingly unpopular as Leader of the Conservative Party since the 1906 general election ; tariff reformers saw his leadership as the reason for their electoral losses, and the " free fooders " had been alienated by Balfour's attempts to tame the zeal of the tariff reform faction.
Law himself had no problem with Balfour's leadership, and along with Edward Carson attempted to regain support for him.
By 1958 this had reduced to two: Balfour's pie-cart on North Terrace outside the Adelaide Railway Station, and Cowley's in Victoria Square outside the G. P. O.

Balfour's and been
The sections of the work dealing with Balfour's personality have been reproduced below:

Balfour's and Prime
At that time in Manchester, Arthur Balfour was a Conservative MP representing the district, as well as Prime Minister, and the two met during one of Balfour's electoral campaigns.

Balfour's and 1894
The sunken parterre garden design, with its convincingly Jacobean central fountain, designed by Robert Shekelton Balfour ( 1869 1942 ), is of 1894 ; Balfour's dated design is conserved in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Balfour's and
Balfour's sister, Magdelene Balfour, married William A. F. Browne ( 1805 1885 ), the well known phrenologist and asylum reformer.
Frederic H. Balfour's ( 1880: 380-381 ) brief essay about the Xinyin jing (" The Imprint of the Heart ") contains the earliest known Western reference to the Three Treasures: " There are three degrees of Supreme Elixir the Spirit, the Breath, and the Essential Vigour ".
Some of his numerous works are preserved in the Advocates ' Library at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence, from which rich collection James Haig published Balfour's Annales of Scotland in 4 volumes ( 1824 1825 ).

Balfour's and was
Chamberlain himself was less concerned, assuring Balfour's Private Secretary in February 1902 that ' I have my own work to do and ... I shall be quite willing to serve under Balfour.
Publicly, Chamberlain claimed that Balfour's stance was the precursor to a fuller policy of Imperial Preference.
A notable achievement of Balfour's government was the establishment of the Committee on Imperial Defence.
Balfour's reputation was now such that other universities became anxious to secure his services, and he was invited to succeed Professor George Rolleston at Oxford and Sir Wyville Thomson at Edinburgh.
He was the greatest lawyer of his day, and part-author at least of Balfour's Practicks, the earliest text-book of Scottish law, not published, however, till 1754.
In this role, he was instrumental in the Unionist leader Arthur Balfour's plans to obstruct Liberal policies through the Unionist majority in the upper house.
When, in 2007, the Glenelg Tramline was extended from Victoria Square along King William Street and North Terrace past the Adelaide Railway Station, the Balfour's pie-cart was forced to close.
Under Balfour's care the Royal Botanic Garden was enlarged and improved and a palm-house, arboretum, and teaching accommodation were built.
By the end of the decade she was considered to be one of Britain's leading screen actresses along with Balfour, and was described by critics as Balfour's only serious rival.
" It's Raining Men " is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979 originally for Dave Balfour's album Stars ( it was eventually discarded ), and originally recorded by The Weather Girls in 1982.
Balfour's Conservative government later set up a Royal Commission, a decision that was unpopular among trade unionists.

Balfour's and ".
In 1881, he purchased a large section of James Balfour's " Round Hill Station " near Albury in New South Wales, naming his section " Kirndeen Station ".

appointment and cabinet
Finally, on 27 November the conservatives tried to hold onto power with the appointment of a purely conservative cabinet, led by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud.
Once in office, the new president showed signs of reneging on some of his pledges, especially those related to the appointment of a bipartisan cabinet.
Although Kinnock had come from the Tribune left of the party, he parted company with many of his former allies after his appointment to the shadow cabinet.
The Prime Minister, ministers in the cabinet, and the Leader of the Opposition must be sworn of the Privy Council on appointment.
The rules for appointing the president and the leader of the government, in some republics permit the appointment of a president and a prime minister who have opposing political convictions: in France, when the members of the ruling cabinet and the president come from opposing political factions, this situation is called cohabitation.
Grant's reply was a recommendation against the move, in light of the Tenure of Office Act which required Senate approval of any removal of a cabinet appointment subject to their advice and consent.
This was immediately proved by the appointment of fifteen civilians to cabinet positions.
* 1884: Parliamentarism has evolved since 1884 and entails that the cabinet must not have the parliament against it ( an absence of mistrust, but an express of support is not necessary ), and that the appointment by the King is a formality when there is a clear parliamentary majority.
It is suggested, for instance, that the president could refuse to sign legislation merely because he disagrees with its content, thus vetoing it, or refuse to approve a cabinet appointment.
If he ceased to " retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann ," the president, along with his cabinet, was obliged to resign, but could continue to serve as acting president until the appointment of a successor.
In 1963, Gilmour offered the editorship to Iain Macleod, the politician who had recently resigned his cabinet seat in objection to the controversial appointment of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.
Following his appointment to the cabinet Mr. Gallatin determined to withdraw from the glass firm and advertised on May 7, 1803 in a Pittsburgh newspaper, " Sale by Auction ... One undivided half of the New Geneva Glassworks, a ferry across the Monongahela River, sundry lots and dwelling houses in the town of Greensboro ..
Within months of his cabinet appointment, a frustrated Toombs stepped down to join the Confederate States Army.
** In office only — Speaker of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Commons, Ministers of the Crown ( however Canadian ministers invariably enter the Privy Council upon their initial appointment, thus assuming the honorific for life ), judges of provincial courts, premiers of provinces and territories, territorial commissioners, and provincial and territorial cabinet ministers
In a coalition government, such as the current one between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, the appointment of the leader of the smaller party ( in the current case, Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats ) as Deputy Prime Minister is done to give that person more authority within the cabinet to enforce the coalition's agreed-upon agenda.
Its success depended less on generalized mass appeal than on the so-called sanban ( three " ban "): jiban ( a strong, well-organized constituency ), kaban ( a briefcase full of money ), and kanban ( prestigious appointment, particularly on the cabinet level ).
In a cabinet appointment after the October 1983 balloting, a non-LDP minister, a member of the New Liberal Club, was appointed for the first time.
Villepin's aim was therefore to restore the French people's trust in their government, an achievement for which he publicly set himself a deadline of a hundred days from the appointment of cabinet.
Besides Adolf Hitler himself, he and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk were the only members of the Third Reich's cabinet to serve continuously from Hitler's appointment as Chancellor until his death.
However, internal dissent within the cabinet led to his resignation and the appointment of Lord Chatham as Prime Minister ( the Duke of Grafton was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, one of the few cases in which those two offices were separate ).
The manner of his appointment was controversial, and two of Macmillan's cabinet ministers refused to take office under Home.
On his appointment as Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald caused some surprise by excluding some of the older conservative ex-ministers from his cabinet.
After the death of Gustav Stresemann in 1929, he was already considered for the post of Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Chancellor Hermann Müller by President Paul von Hindenburg, but his appointment failed due to the objections raised by the governing parties.

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