On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

In March 2008, ambassador Gustavo Machin Gomez met General Tariq Majid, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee ( CJCSC ) at Joint Staff Headquarters and discussed issues related to military cooperation.

The UN General Assembly has adopted, in 2007, 2008 and 2010, non-binding resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with a view to eventual abolition.

Winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for General Non-fiction.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

In 1999 the source code for Hexen was released by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

" However, since 8 March 2008 General Election, media's coverage on country's politics has been noticeably increased, making the politics more transparent to the citizens.

In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d ' état that toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

On 20 March 2008, Reuters reported that President Guebuza had dismissed the Chief and Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant General Lagos Lidimo ( FRELIMO ) and Lieutenant General Mateus Ngonhamo ( RENAMO ), replacing them with Brigadier General Paulino Macaringue as Chief of Defence Force and Major-general Olímpio Cambora as Vice-Chief of Defence Force.

At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly voted for a resolution condemning Burma's human rights record ; it was supported by 80 countries, with 25 voting against and 45 abstaining.

in Frankfurt on 21 and 22 September 2008 on his way to attend the United Nations General Assembly in

John McCain's Presidential Campaign removed images of Alabama Attorney General Troy King from its website after he was outed in 2008.

During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.

The General Assembly of 2008 took several actions related to homosexuality.

* Lee, Robert E. Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee ( 2008 edition ) excerpt and text search

Later editions ( e. g. Gimson 2008 ) use General, Refined and Regional.

Nelson-Williams succeeded the retiring Major General Edward Sam M ’ boma on 12 September 2008.

British examples are At Risk ( 2004 ), Secret Asset ( 2006 ), Illegal Action ( 2007 ), and Dead Line ( 2008 ), by Dame Stella Rimington ( formerly the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996 ) and The Code Snatch ( 2001 ) by Alan Stripp, formerly a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008.

In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.

Prior to the 2008 elections, a decision to change the electoral date and extend the parliamentary mandate resulted in major controversy when the Assembly deputies snubbed the president and chose to extend their mandate.

In June 2008, the Assembly of the Authority elected by acclamation Nii Allotey Odunton of Ghana, Deputy to the Secretary-General since 1996, for a four-year term as Secretary-General beginning 1 January 2009.

* 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

A federal republic was established in May 2008, with only four members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly voting against the change, which ended 240 years of royal rule in Nepal.

Constituent Assembly in April 2008.

Speaking before a National Assembly session, Bagoudou said that the 42. 2 billion CFA francs spent on medical costs for road accident victims accounted for around 25 % of the 2008 budget of the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health.

In October 2008, Julie Schonfeld was named as the new executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, making her the first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association.

In April 2008, the ruling party secured a majority the National Assembly elections.

On 17 February 2008, 109 members ( 10 members including all Kosovo Serbs were absent ) of the Kosovo Assembly voted unanimously to declare independence.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

* Nepal after Constituent Assembly Elections in 10 April 2008

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

Neither body sent representatives to the CUIC plenary on January 11 – 14, 2008, though the AME Council of Bishops never voted to suspend membership officially.

A 2008 American Film Institute poll voted Hoosiers the fourth-greatest film of all time in the sports genre.

In 2008, Parliament voted to dismiss President Preval's Prime Minister following severe rioting over food prices.

It is popular with travellers – from 2001 to 2005 and 2007 – 2008 Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport in an annual survey of several million passengers worldwide by Skytrax.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

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Malaysians voted March 8, 2008 in parliamentary elections.

One of the leading VSAT service providers is Syscomptech, they were voted the best Direct VSAT Marketers in 2008 and maintains satellites with direct footprints over Nigeria.

In 2007 the UK's first Vegan ' tapas ' bar was opened, and in spring 2008 the students voted ( by a large majority ) for Pembroke to serve only free-range chicken ( it will be the first UK college to do so ).

In a survey of 2000 people conducted by Coolbrands in autumn 2008, Cockney was voted equal fourth coolest accent in Britain with 7 % of the votes, while The Queen's English was considered the coolest, with 20 % of the votes.

In 2008, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted for an initiative to introduce an EU organ donor card in order to foster organ donation in Europe.

Dutchess County has historically leaned Republican due to its affluence and large suburban swaths ; it has voted for Democratic presidential candidates only three times-1964, 1996 and 2008.

In July 2007, the party voted to dissolve itself on 1 January 2008.

In 2004 it voted for George Bush over John Kerry by a margin of 63 to 34 and in 2008 it voted for John McCain over Barack Obama by a margin of 59 to 39.

In November 2008, the UIPM voted to change the format from the start of 2009.

A 2008 poll of editors on Virtualtourist voted the building the second-ugliest building in the world.

In the 2008 U. S. presidential election, the county voted for John McCain by a 58. 9 % margin over Barack Obama, with McCain winning by 28. 1 % statewide.

Orange County voted for Barack Obama 72 %- 27 % over John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

In 2008 The Hockey News ' staff voted the team's main logo to be the best in the NHL.