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The Prime Minister thought him overly pompous and self-important, and it was said that he used him as if he were using a Rolls-Royce to deliver a parcel to the station ; Lloyd George said much later that Churchill treated his Ministers in a way that Lloyd George would never have treated his: " They were all men of substance — well, except Curzon.
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Prime and Minister
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.
The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.
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 thought
Furthermore, many thought that the title " Prime Minister " usurped the Sovereign's constitutional position as " head of the government " and that it was an affront to other ministers because they were all appointed by and equally responsible to the Sovereign.
Jules Ferry, Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1885, followed both these schools of thought and eventually enacted the Ferry Laws which were intended to overturn the Falloux Laws, by embracing the anti-clerical thinking of the Philosophs.
Michael Joseph Savage ( Prime Minister of New Zealand ) rejected option 1 but thought that option 2 " might be possible ... if some solution along these lines were found to be practicable " but " would be guided by the decision of the Home government ".
In the new Parliament, many Whigs thought the aging Prime Minister incapable of leading the military campaign.
Described as " Britain's fifth most important political party " in 1986 it played a prominent role in the 1989 – 1991 mass anti-poll tax movement which was widely thought to have led to the downfall of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
After losing his parliamentary majority in a general election in November 1827, Charles dismissed Prime Minister Villèle on 5 January 1828 and appointed Jean-Baptise de Martignac, a man the King disliked and thought of only as provisional.
In a Talking to Americans segment on the Canadian mock television news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes during the 2000 American election, comedian Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked several people ( including then-Texas governor George W. Bush ) what they thought of " Prime Minister Jean Poutine " and his endorsement of Bush for president.
The unappealing thought of Asquith returning as Prime Minister was one of the factors in Lloyd George surviving the crisis.
In a Radio Times interview to promote Yes, Prime Minister, Paul Eddington stated, " He's beginning to find his feet as a man of power, and he's begun to confound those who thought they'd be able to manipulate him out of hand.
The Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Ted Short, was Leader of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1976 and often thought of as Deputy Prime Minister ; he was referred to as such in the citation for being made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 1990, making a resignation speech that is widely thought to have hastened Thatcher's downfall.
Michael Joseph Savage ( Prime Minister of New Zealand ) rejected option 1 but thought that option 2 " might be possible ... if some solution along these lines were found to be practicable " but " would be guided by the decision of the Home government ".
After having published a famous editorial in January 1995 where Ramonet coined the term " pensée unique " (" single thought ") to describe the supremacy of the neoliberal ideology, the newspaper supported the November – December 1995 general strike in France against Prime minister Alain Juppé's ( RPR ) plan to cut pensions.
Following the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi on May 15, 1932 by fanatical navy officers who thought Inukai far too conciliatory ( the May 15 Incident ), Prince Saionji Kinmochi, one of the Emperor's closest and strongest advisors, attempted to stop the slide towards a military take-over of the government.
The condition was at first thought more serious than it turned out to be, and he announced that he would resign as Prime Minister as soon as a successor was appointed.
Though both the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary were thought to favor the Confederacy at the time of Alabama's construction, this position was against British public opinion and MPs such as Richard Cobden campaigned against it.
" Mandelson initially thought he could weather the press storm, but had to resign when it became clear that the Prime Minister thought nothing else would clear the air.
Bảo Đại made Diệm the Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam because he thought Diệm's connections would secure funding.
As to the doctrine of God, Abraham ibn Daud, like Aristotle and his Arabic interpreters, proceeding from the principle of motion, and basing his argument upon the proof of the impossibility of a regressus in infinitum, arrives at the conception of a First Cause of all motion, or of a Prime Mover, who Himself, as First Cause, can not have any other cause of motion above Him, and must, therefore, be thought of as motionless.
In 1967, Clement Attlee ( Labour Party Prime Minister, 1945 – 51 ) was asked who he thought was the best Prime Minister of his lifetime.
Wilson thought “ ridiculous and unworkable ” a suggestion by Lloyd George that all Robertson ’ s plans be submitted to a committee of French, Wilson and one other, and over lunch with French and Lloyd George on 23 August suggested an inter-Allied body of three Prime Ministers and three soldiers be set up over all the national Staffs.
On the occasions when Archer was thought killed, T ' Pol showed her affection for him to the point of crying during the Xindi mission when she believes he has been killed in Azati Prime.
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