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Ordinary methods of diplomacy within the free world are inadequate, said the former Prime Minister.
Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.
We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.
In Keng Kok, the City of Silkworms, the Prime Minister bought fried chickens and fried cicadas, and two notebooks for me.
This was expanded upon by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who established a Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey in 1910.
The executive branch of the government was composed of the President, the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Angola in June 2006, offering a US $ 9 billion loan for infrastructure improvements in return for petroleum.
After that case Poirot apparently came to the attention of the British secret service, and undertook cases for the British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister.
* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )
* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )
* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )
* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )
* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal
* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou
* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )
* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia
* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )
* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )
* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

Prime and paid
* 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $ 3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
The Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior has stated that the mutineers were ex-UN soldiers recently returned from Liberia who were angry about delays in being paid.
Until 2006, the Lord Chancellor was the highest paid member of the government ahead of the Prime Minister.
This gross salary and these indemnities are the same as those of the Prime Minister, and are 50 % higher than the highest paid to other members of the government, which is itself defined as twice the average of the highest ( pay grade G ) and the lowest ( pay grade A1 ) salaries in the " out of scale " pay grades.
Ministers in Singapore are the highest paid politicians in the world, receiving a 60 % salary raise in 2007 and as a result Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's pay jumped to S $ 3. 1 million, five times the US $ 400, 000 earned by President Barack Obama.
" His dismissal attracted a strong reaction from Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who said that whereas Kotobalavu was paid to be the Prime Minister's spin doctor.
In September 2002, Davíð Oddsson, the Icelandic Prime Minister at the time, signed two regulations decreeing that all monetary amounts on invoices and financial claims should be stated and paid in whole krónur only and that coins with a value of less than one króna should be withdrawn from circulation.
Though frustrated about the lack of power he had in the office, Childers ' daughter Nessa believes that he played an important behind-the-scenes role in easing the Northern Ireland conflict, reporting that former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O ' Neill paid met secretly with her father at Áras an Uachtaráin on at least one occasion.
The position of Deputy Prime Minister is not recognised in UK law, so any post-holder must be given an additional title in order to have legal status and to be paid a salary additional to the parliamentary one.
The total number of ministers allowed to be paid as " Cabinet ministers " is limited by the ( Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 ), and this has caused successive Prime Ministers problems, and accounts for some of the unusual regular attendees at Cabinet, who are not paid as Cabinet ministers.
* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper filed a suit against the Liberal Party of Canada, the Official Opposition, after the latter paid for trucks to drive through the streets playing a journalist's tape of Harper admitting he knew of " financial considerations " offered to dying MP Chuck Cadman before a critical Canadian House of Commons vote in 2005.
Friedman sparked outrage for writing that congressional ovations for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were " bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.
During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.
: When acting Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister is paid the same rate of salary per annum payable to the Prime Minister.
Schreiber told the committee he paid $ 30, 000 in cash to Charest's brother to help fund the current Prime Minister's 1993 leadership bid for the federal Progressive Conservative party.
The Conservative Prime Minister Lord Salisbury paid tribute to him in the House of Lords the day after his death, and it sums up his character as a public man:
Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and President of India Pratibha Patil paid tribute to Borlaug saying,
The Prime Minister receives a communiqué from SPECTRE ( SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion ) explaining that the organisation has hijacked a Villiers Vindicator and seized its two nuclear bombs, which it will use to destroy two major cities unless a £ 100, 000, 000 ransom is paid.
Angered by the fact that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company paid Iran much less than it did the British, he organized a movement against it and was the " virtually alone among the leading mujtahids in joining " nationalist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, in his campaign to nationalize the Iranian oil industry in 1951.
The Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, insisted that the Governor-General's official secretary must be appointed and paid by the Australian government.
On May 1, 2009 al-Sadr paid a surprise visit to Ankara where, in his first public appearance for two years, he met with Turkish President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for talks which focused on the " political process " and requested Turkey play a greater role in establishing stability in the Middle East.

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