The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina is nominated by the Presidency and approved by the House of Representatives.

The Presidency of the Council rotates every six months among the governments of EU member states, with the relevant ministers of the respective country holding the Presidency at any given time ensuring the smooth running of the meetings and setting the daily agenda.

The person chairing the Council will always be the member from the state holding the Presidency.

In particular this includes setting the agenda of the council, hence giving the Presidency substantial influence in the work of the Council during its term.

The Presidency also plays a major role in representing the Council within the EU and representing the EU internationally, for example at the United Nations.

The current Presidency Council, a transitional replacement for the President of Iraq who serves largely as a figurehead with few powers, is composed of Jalal Talabani, Tariq al-Hashimi, and Khodair al-Khozaei.

The executive branch is composed of the President / Presidency Council and the Council of Ministers.

Other departments are in service to constitutional bodies such as the Presidency of the Republic, the Senate, Parliament, the Judiciary, the Prime Minister and the National Council of Economy and Labour.

José Sócrates, as Prime Minister of Portugal, presided over the rotative Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the period July – December 2007.

The European Council of 21-22 June 2007 delivered to the Portuguese Presidency the mandate to call an IGC.

His innovative views, energy and fluency in French won him — and through him, Ireland — a status in European affairs far exceeding the country's size and ensured that the first Irish Presidency of the European Council in 1975 was a noted success.

Foreseeing that Louis Bonaparte would be elected president by the people, he proposed to vest the chief authority in a president of the Council elected and removable by the Assembly, or in other words, to suppress the Presidency of the Republic.

* Trio Presidency of the Council of the EU, triple-shared presidency

France's Presidency includes the three traditional branches: the Executive, Judicial and Legislative, but it also includes a fourth branch called the Constitutional Council, which determines the constitutionality of new laws.

* Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Under the Iraqi Transitional Government, the Members of the Iraqi National Assembly choose the Presidency Council, including the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers.

The Presidency Council then shall name a Prime Minister unanimously.

According to this, the Presidency Council must agree on a candidate for the post within two weeks.

If the Prime Minister is unable to nominate his Council of Ministers within one month, the Presidency Council shall name another Prime Minister ..

* Presidency Council of Iraq

Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.

This is a matter of respect for the Presidency.

The Presidency is the head of state and it is mainly responsible for the foreign policy and proposing the budget.

A bishop is the president of the Aaronic priesthood in his ward ( and is thus a form of Mormon Kohen ; in fact, a literal descendant of Aaron has " legal right " to act as a Bishop after being found worthy and ordained by the First Presidency ).

Each bishop is selected from resident members of the ward by the stake presidency with approval of the First Presidency, and chooses two counselors to form a bishopric.

Instead it is part of the Intelligence and Security Directorate ( DIS ) which reports directly to the Minister of the Presidency.

The continuity between presidencies is provided by an arrangement under which three successive presidencies, known as Presidency trios, share common political programmes.

The role of the Presidency is administrative and political.

The LDS Church's version of the Doctrine and Covenants is officially described by the church as " containing revelations given to Joseph Smith, the Prophet, with some additions by his successors in the Presidency of the Church.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

The EPP Group is governed by a collective ( referred to as the Presidency ) that allocates tasks.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

There is intense competitiveness between the students of the three faculties as well as between Jadavpur University and that of the other city colleges like Presidency College, Kolkata and St. Xavier's College, Calcutta.

Another system is the Parliamentary republic, where the Presidency is largely ceremonial.

Some commentators, such as the political scientist Michael Foley, have argued there is a de facto " British Presidency ".

The meaning of the word " Biafra " has been explained in the Book, " Biafra or Nigerian Presidency: What the Ibos Want " where the author delved into the etimology and etiology of the words " Biafra ", " Ibo " and " Igbo " and proved that " Biafra " is an ancient word in the Igbo language which was lost many centuries ago just like other Igbo words have been lost.

Moments after he is confirmed by Congress, while waiting in a tunnel beneath the building to come up after the vote, a Japanese airline pilot deliberately crashes his 747 into the Capitol during the joint session of Congress, killing most of the people inside, decapitating the U. S. government and elevating Ryan to the Presidency.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Adams and his father were the only U. S. presidents to serve a single term during the first 48 years of the Presidency ( 1789 – 1837 ).

He divided the single district up, called for regional elections, and eliminated the centralist Ministry of the Presidency that had been instituted under Fujimori.

He also presided over a successful Irish Presidency of the European Union in 1996 and helped finalise the Stability and Growth Pact, which establishes macroeconomic parameters for countries participating in the single European currency, the euro.

:” Should Professor Bose succeed in perfecting and patenting his ‘ Coherer ’, we may in time see the whole system of coast lighting throughout the navigable world revolutionised by a Bengali scientist working single handed in our Presidency College Laboratory .”

The army in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay & Madras functioned as respective Presidency Army until April 1895, when the Presidency Armies were unified into a single Indian Army.

In 1976, Eddé stood as a candidate for the Presidency ; his failure to win a single vote in the National Assembly led to allegations of electoral misconduct.

The " Imperial Presidency " becomes more important, since single officeholders with great power become the only politicians capable of governing.

It never had real, single political force emphasized again like political competition in the Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, city of which got to gain the Municipal Presidency.

The Imperial Bank of India came into existence on 27 January 1921 when the three Presidency Banks of colonial India, were reorganized and amalgamated to form a single banking entity.