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She served as the Minister of State for Housing and Planning in 2008, and later as the Minister for Europe until her resignation in 2009, citing the leadership of Gordon Brown as a reason.
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She served as secretary in the Seminary office for 25 years, and was in charge of correspondence, records, and bookkeeping.
She established a Nursing Trust for local villages, and served on various committees and councils responsible for footpaths and other country life issues.
She also served as one of three co-hosts ( along with Roy Clark and Glen Campbell ) on the CBS special Fifty Years of Country Music.
She served 30 days in jail for violation of the terms of her probation and entered a drug program immediately thereafter.
She served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway ( 1981, 1986 – 89, 1990 – 96 ), and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization.
She served as the regent of Mantua during the absence of her husband, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and the minority of her son, Federico, Duke of Mantua.
She served in the Baltic during the Gunboat War where she participated in the seizure of Anholt Island, and the Channel.
She was first elected to the City Council in 1975 as an at large member, she served on the council until 1982.
She had to leave her other children behind because they were not legally freed in the emancipation order until they had served as bound servants into their twenties.
She was active in student politics and served as the Social Affairs Secretary and Organization Secretary of the National Union of Students from 1969 to 1970.
She served five full terms and less than a year of her sixth term in the parliament until her inauguration as President in 2000.
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She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, but her request for a meeting was reportedly denied.
She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979 and became Norway's first, and to date only, female Prime Minister.
She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared a state of emergency in order to ' rule by decree ' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office.
She had directed the detailed planning of the funeral, including ordering all the major events and asking former President George H. W. Bush as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak during the National Cathedral Service.
She selects as her Prime Minister the person who is able to command a working majority in the House of Commons, and invites him to form a government.
She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999, and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election, becoming the first Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.
She led the ALP to a record win at the 2005 election, before resigning as Chief Minister on 26 November 2007.
She soon resigned from the party and returned to journalism, but when CLP Chief Minister Marshall Perron resigned from his Darwin seat of Fannie Bay, causing a by-election, she decided to make another attempt to enter Parliament.
She was also able to take advantage of a number of gaffes made by Chief Minister Denis Burke, such as the decision to preference the One Nation Party over the ALP-which lost the CLP a number of votes in crucial Darwin seats.
She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.
She then married his brother, Rainilaiarivony, head of the army at the time of Radama II's murder who was promoted to the post of Prime Minister upon the resignation and exile of his older brother.
She also told Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador who later became the Foreign Minister of Germany, that Hitler looked too much like Charlie Chaplin to be taken seriously.
She demonstrated with Women in Black against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip outside the residence of Israel's Prime Minister.
She was in 1984 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, to replace Edward Richard Schreyer as vicereine, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Ray Hnatyshyn in 1990.
She calls Hacker by his first name (" Fiscal mechanics, Jim "), whereas Dorothy addressed him as " Prime Minister ".
She also played Margot Asquith, the wife of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, in the dramatic series Number 10.
She was accompanied by her husband, Martin, Cardinal Desmond Connell, Mary Hanafin, the Minister for Education and Science, together with bishops and other pilgrims.
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