In politics, a de facto leader of a country or region is one who has assumed authority, regardless of whether by lawful, constitutional, or legitimate means ; very frequently, the term is reserved for those whose power is thought by some faction to be held by unlawful, unconstitutional, or otherwise illegitimate means, often because it had deposed a previous leader or undermined the rule of a current one.

The current Kuomintang government of Taiwan asserts the position that the Republic of China is the sole and legitimate government of all of China.

The current President Ma Ying-jeou reasserted the ROC's claim to be the sole legitimate government of China and the claim that mainland China is part of ROC's territory.

Summers then concluded his discussion of the three hypotheses by saying: So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers ' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.

He will be the 12th Earl if the current earl, Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex ( currently 68 and unmarried ), dies without legitimate male issue.

The position of the current Argentine government is that military Presidents Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Jorge Rafael Videla were explicitly not legitimate presidents.

Therefore, the current claimant to the Duchy of Parma is a legitimate ( though not prime ) claimant to the Kingdom of Spain ; indeed, the recent pretender to the Parmese throne, the late Carlos-Hugo, was also a pretender to the Spanish throne in the 1970s ( see Carlism ).

The previous version was an outright evil villain, willing to blackmail and force his way into stardom ( as opposed to the current Count, who merely tries to get in the legitimate way ) and was fixated on being a TV star, rather than settle for fame in some other branch of entertainment.

Some extreme right-wing groups, which do not recognise the current government of Germany, use the term " BRD " in the same way the communists used it, to express their view that the government of the Federal Republic of Germany is not the legitimate German government.

The station broadcast via carrier current from the basement of the 132-134 Beacon Street dormitory, and grew in success that included legitimate commercials, news programming and a station-owned van.

* Historical or current evidence that the boundaries are legitimate ;

The transitional constitution recognizes the current government of Kurdistan as the legitimate government of the Kurds, and allows it to continue to exist within the new federal state.

Under the current practice, princesses of the blood royal are the legitimate daughters and the legitimate male line granddaughters of a British Sovereign.

Mousavi neither recognizes the current government as legitimate nor is likely to receive permission ; so, the movement was named a " path " in order bypass this law.

The other major part of the claim relies on the fact that by the time the Gando Convention was signed in 1909, the Korean state ( by that time the Korean Empire ) was neither consulted nor had any way of disputing the legitimacy of the treaty as it was already a protectorate of the Japanese Empire and was essentially prevented from resolving or re-negotiating the boundary dispute as an independent state, and as such the Gando Convention, like other unequal treaties ( such as the Eulsa Treaty and the Japan-Korea treaty of 1910 ) dealing with Korean territory / governance or claims made by Imperial Japan, should be revoked and the boundary dispute rectified between Korea ( though there is no stated consensus on which of the two current Koreas should be party to this ) and the People's Republic of China ( though the Republic of China, as the nationalist successor to the Qing Dynasty, may be a more legitimate party to this on the Chinese side as it still claims all of the territory held while the Qing Dynasty still ruled China as a sovereign state ).

They state that in the case of circumcision, where there are potential benefits and risks, yet the procedure is not essential to the child's current well-being, the parents ought to determine what is in the child's best interests, and that it is legitimate for parents to take into account cultural, religious, and ethnic traditions, as well as medical factors.

* Theroff's Online Gotha-entry for the Odescalchi family, with references to current, legitimate members of the princely family

Prior to the emergence of the current sport of shoot wrestling, the term was commonly used in the professional wrestling business, particularly in the United Kingdom, as a synonym for the legitimate sport of catch wrestling.

Usually a patient will be treated by their regular physician and be prescribed a drug that is necessary for the legitimate treatment of their current medical condition.

If Albert does not have a legitimate heir with Princess Charlene, the current heir apparent ( or Crown Princess ), The Princess of Hanover, Princess Caroline will inherit the throne after her brother.

* Grant legal registration to Tunisian non-governmental organisations that work with current and former political prisoners and other human rights NGOs and to allow them to carry out their legitimate work unimpeded.

He will be the 12th Earl if the current earl, Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex ( currently 68 and unmarried ), dies without legitimate male issue.

* the Chieftaincy ( O ' Donnell ) which is also extinct, although a Chief of the Name was recognised by the Chief Herald of Ireland, as the legitimate successor in a putative sequence of Chiefs of the Name, and will default to the Duke of Tetuan in Spain in succession to the current Chief, a Franciscan priest, who has no eligible progeny.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked Horace Hahn to read the script and comment ( at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School ).

Senior members of the Royal Family may also be appointed — Prince Philip is a member, the most senior at present in terms of service, and is the only present member not to be appointed by the current monarch, having been appointed to the council by her father.

The current Director-General of ONA is Allan Gyngell, a distinguished Australian diplomat, former senior advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Keating, and founder of the Lowy Institute.

Daniel Inouye, a Democrat and senior senator from Hawaii, is the current president pro tempore.

Produced in Australia, it starred the current senior members of the Young Talent Team-Dannii Minogue, Vince Del Tito, Natalie Miller, Lorena Novoa, Beven Addinsall, and a new member, black teenager Keith Williams, who was imported from Los Angeles.

The current coalition Government has proposed introducing a more American style system where senior civil servants such as permanent secretaries become political appointees

The crest of the current first ( senior ) class is displayed in the center position.

The report added that individuals, some current and some former members, in the group have, without the orders from above, continued to " localised recruitment ", and although some continued to try and acquire weapons, including a senior member, most forms of crime had fallen, including shootings and assaults.

It was held in December, at the home of the current senior annual Roman magistrate cum imperio, whether consul or praetor.

Additionally, many current and former U. S. senior military officials such as Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, David Petraeus and others claim that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are also involved in helping the Taliban.

Many local residents were angered that the bequeathment was misappropriated from its intended purpose of being used only for senior housing ; controversy still exists within the community regarding this issue ( the degree of the current controversy could be debated because a new senior housing facility has been built and is operational near the cafe ).

* Stu Jackson, former NBA head coach and current senior vice president of the NBA

Most of Bucyrus is served by the Bucyrus City School District, which currently includes three elementary schools, two middle schools and Bucyrus High School ( 9-12 ), but will consolidate into one junior / senior high and one elementary school after current reconstruction is completed.

Now one of the two senior houses, it was moved to its current position on College Road in the 1930s on the site of what had previously been the Master's garden ( who had been residing in the south block of the New College ).

The second of the two current senior houses, it too was moved to its current position on College Road in the 1930s.

* David Corvo ( 1972 )-Television news producer and former broadcast journalist ; current senior executive producer of Dateline NBC

On basic, current computer chess architecture, GNU Chess plays at senior master / weak international master strength ( 2500 + Elo on simple hardware-Intel Core 2 Duo ), without parallel processing, according to the IQ6 test suite.

* When senior management has its own remuneration as its primary motivation for decision making ( hitting short-term quarterly earnings targets or creating high medium term earnings, without due regard for the medium term effects on, or risks for the business so that large bonuses can be justified in the current periods ).

Regiments, battalions and batteries of the Company have fought with distinction in both World Wars and its current Regiment, which forms part of the Territorial Army, is the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior in the Territorial Army.

The next most senior member is the Grand Master, of which there have been three: Edward, Prince of Wales ( 1917 – 1936 ); Queen Mary ( 1936 – 1953 ); and the current Grand Master, The Duke of Edinburgh ( since 1953 ).

The Surgeon General serves a four-year term of office and, depending on whether the current Assistant Secretary for Health is a PHSCC commissioned officer or not, is the senior or second-highest ranking uniformed officer of the PHSCC, holding the grade of a three-star vice admiral.