This is the force, in our time and in every other time, that urges the paranoiac and the manic-depressive to become head of a state.

Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.

Since the adoption of a new constitution, early in 2010, the politics of Angola takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Angola is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the Sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a Governor-General to act as vice-regal representative in the nation.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

" He points to the fact that the Pope claims universal jurisdiction and he therefore argues that " it would be intolerable to have, as the sovereign of a Protestant and free country, one who owes any allegiance to the head of any other state " and contends that if such situation came about " we will have undone centuries of common law.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Notable examples of bodyguards include the Roman Praetorian Guard or the Ottoman Janissaries — though, in both cases, the protectors sometimes became assassins themselves, exploiting their power to make the head of state a virtual hostage or killing the very leaders they were supposed to protect.

After killing a police officer and a civilian, Rector shot himself in the head, leading to what his lawyers said was a state where he could still talk but did not understand the idea of death.

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

Politics of Botswana takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Botswana is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Finally, on 10 November 1989, at the November plenum of BCP Todor Zhivkov was dismissed as a long-time party leader and head of state and the communist regime gave way to democratic elections and government.

The Politics of Burkina Faso takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Burkina Faso is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Politics of Burundi takes place in a framework of a transitional presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Burundi is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Karmal was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, synonymous with vice head of state, in the communist government.

After becoming head of state in 1933, Adolf Hitler ignored the Versailles Treaty provisions.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

To make a strike at the ball with a left to right swing the player must present the flat of the ' face ' of the stick to the ball by ' reversing ' the stick head, i. e. by turning the handle through approximately 180 °( while a reverse edge hit would turn the stick head through approximately 90 ° from the position of an upright forehand stoke with the ' face ' of the stick head.

i. e. since the time when Badrabahu, a preacher of this religion and the head of the monks ' community, came to Karnataka from Bihar.

Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i. e., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

At the end of the lute's evolution the archlute, theorbo and torban had long extensions attached to the main tuning head in order to provide a greater resonating length for the bass strings, and since human fingers are not long enough to stop strings across a neck wide enough to hold 14 courses, the bass strings were placed outside the fretboard, and were played " open ", i. e. without fretting / stopping them with the left hand.

At its head, the Madeira on its own is still one of the largest rivers of the world, with a mean inter-annual discharge of, i. e. / yr, approximately half the discharge of the Congo River.

It represents what early peoples would have worn, i. e. a steers's head as a hat, with the hide hanging down the back to protect the neck from the sun, and overall as a way to instill fear in the enemy.

There are also 50 + special seats for women now, and women are selected ( i. e. not directly elected in the general election but given representation according to how their parties performed in the general election ) on these seat by their party head: another seventeenth amendment innovation.

In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative ( i. e. the monarch, president, or governor-general ) usually holds a largely ceremonial position, although often with reserve powers.

In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative ( i. e., the monarch, president, or governor-general ) usually holds a purely ceremonial position.

The balance of the fund in 2011 was £ 217million i. e. about £ 9, 500 per head.

< li > A finite table ( occasionally called an action table or transition function ) of instructions ( usually quintuples: q < sub > i </ sub > a < sub > j </ sub >→ q < sub > i1 </ sub > a < sub > j1 </ sub > d < sub > k </ sub >, but sometimes 4-tuples ) that, given the state ( q < sub > i </ sub >) the machine is currently in and the symbol ( a < sub > j </ sub >) it is reading on the tape ( symbol currently under the head ) tells the machine to do the following in sequence ( for the 5-tuple models ):

The income level at which each rate starts generally is higher ( i. e., tax is lower ) for married couples filing a joint return or single individuals filing as head of household.

This usually arises from a dislodged atherosclerotic plaque in one of the carotid arteries ( i. e. a number of major arteries in the head and neck ) or from a thrombus ( i. e. a blood clot ) in the heart because of atrial fibrillation.

Morgan jerked his head toward the front door.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

Clayton choked, shook his head, murmuring, `` No ''.

The stallion had smelled the mare coming into heat and began to paw the turf, shaking his head.

He shook his head.

The feathered lance was still above his head.

I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.

the square head fell over.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

Before they could guess his intention Rankin stepped forward and swung the guard's own gun against the uncovered head, hard.

Deliberately, with none of Rankin's viciousness, he laid the barrel of his gun alongside the guard's head.

The murderer lifted his head.

Kodyke was to head the dread company police.

Perhaps she had no reason to fear these trees that whispered their secrets above her head as she passed.

Pamela shook her head.

Hank shook his head.

Brannon shook his head.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

A match flared, and he reached above his head to light a lantern which hung from a wire loop.

so the pitchfork whistled over Curt's head.