Both consuls and other high-ranking members of Rome's leadership condemned Elagabalus, and the Senate subsequently declared war on both Elagabalus and Julia Maesa.

The protesters did not recognize the results of the election, which they deemed undemocratic, and were asking for the exclusion from the political life of the former high-ranking Communist Party members.

He began granting his family members high-ranking positions in the region and increased Sunni influence in Cairo ; he ordered the construction of a college for the Maliki branch of Sunni Islam in the city, as well as one for the Shafi ' i denomination to which he belonged in al-Fustat.

By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30 % to just below 10 %, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press ( most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate ).

Other high-ranking members of the party formed the firing squad.

By 1 August 1979, hundreds of high-ranking Ba ' ath party members had been executed.

One high-ranking German police official stated, “ The only information we have connecting the three Hamburg suspects is the FBI ’ s assertion that there is a connection .” In October 2006, however, a video surfaced showing Atta and Jarrah together in Afghanistan, clearly connecting Jarrah to the members of the Hamburg cell.

* Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Adolf Eichmann — high-ranking members of the SS.

Although the scholar-officials viewed military soldiers as lower members in the hierarchic social order, a person could gain status and prestige in society by becoming a high-ranking military officer with a record of victorious battles.

The only requirement was that members should practise with the group at least twice a year ; among its members were active high-ranking martial artists, others who had given up their practice, women, children, old people and people with physical disabilities.

Since the election, some high-ranking members of Lavalas have been targets for violence.

Bohemian Grove, a private club, has extensive land holdings in the area, which are used for summer retreats involving many high-ranking members of the business and government communities.

During the English Civil War, Oriel played host to high-ranking members of the King's Oxford Parliament.

McLean is home to many diplomats, members of Congress, and high-ranking government officials partially due to its proximity to Washington, D. C. and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Although his family had aristocratic relations, they were minor gentry rather than high-ranking members of the upper echelons of 17th-century society.

The members of the council would be considered " tigern " ( high-ranking persons ) and their chairman would be called " upper tigern " or Vortigern.

The king is assisted in his diplomatic missions by the Foreign Ministry, and high-ranking members of the Foreign Ministry are made available to the king when he is abroad representing Spain.

Jade was used for the finest objects and cult figures, and for grave furnishings for high-ranking members of the imperial family.

Since then, Combs installed members of her family as high-ranking officials in the group, including her daughter Michele Ammons and her son-in-law Tracy Ammons.

Embezzlement and peculation mean almost the same thing, but differ in that embezzlement is used to describe the criminal actions of a private citizen, such as an individual stealing from their employer, while peculation usually applies to the larger-scale misappropriation of public or collective funds by people holding positions of trust within the organization managing those funds, such as government members or high-ranking corporate officers.

He also arrested many high-ranking officials that were loyal to Sukarno on the charge of being PKI members and / or sympathizers, further reducing Sukarno's political power and influence.

The delegates to the original Bundesrat as those to the Reichsrat, while appointed by the state governments just as today, usually were high-ranking civil servants, not cabinet members.

After this success, Saladin began granting his family members high-ranking positions in the country and increased Sunni influence in Cairo by ordering the construction of a college for the Maliki branch of Sunni Islam in the city, as well as one for the Shafi ' i denomination to which he belonged in al-Fustat.

In the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition, the U. S. military developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President Saddam Hussein's government, mostly high-ranking Baath Party members or members of the Revolutionary Command Council.

* also substantively, the title was granted by popes and secular monarchs to specific individuals and to the heads of some high-ranking European families who, however, never exercised dynastic sovereignty and whose cadets are not entitled to share the princely title, e. g. de Beauvau-Craon, Colonna, von Bismarck, von Dohna-Schlobitten, von Eulenburg, de Faucigny-Lucinge, von Lichnowsky, von Pless, Ruffo di Calabria, ( de Talleyrand ) von Sagan, van Ursel, etc.

The Situationists believed that Stalinist practices amounted to a complete rejection of Marxism, and that the hierarchy of power was identical in practice to capitalist society, arguing that a class of high-ranking bureaucrats and party officials had replaced the bourgeoisie.

It is said that the justification for the employment of eunuchs as high-ranking civil servants was that, since they were incapable of having children, they would not be tempted to seize power and start a dynasty.

As a high-ranking military commander residing in the capital, he had all opportunities to seize power during the tumultuous years after Emperor Lê Hoàn's death, yet preferring not to do so out of his sense of duty.

" Also, the considerable air power the Japanese had amassed in the Philippines was thought too dangerous to bypass by many high-ranking officers outside the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including Admiral Chester Nimitz.

He was known for his bitter enmity towards Michael Collins, who, although nominally only the IRA's Director of Intelligence, had far more influence in the organisation as a result of his position as a high-ranking member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation that Brugha saw as undermining the power of the Dáil and especially the Ministry for Defence.

Major military contractors, oil companies, banks ( including the Federal Reserve ), utilities ( including nuclear power ) and national media ( broadcast and print ) have high-ranking officials as club members or guests.

The near limitless power of a high-ranking promagistrate has led to the term " proconsul " being used to designate any high-ranking and authoritative official appointed from above ( or from without ) to govern a territory without regard for local political institutions ( i. e., one who is not elected and whose authority supersedes that of local officials ).

Bongo was eventually successful in consolidating power again, with most of the major opposition leaders being either co-opted by being given high-ranking posts in the government or bought off, ensuring his comfortable re-election in 1998.

Santo Trafficante, Sr. first gained power as a mobster in Tampa as an associate, and later as a high-ranking member, of the Antinori crime family, helping run illegal bolita numbers rackets during the 1920s.

Of particular importance in examining the postwar activities of high-ranking Nazis was Paul Manning's book Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile, which detailed Bormann's rise to power through the Nazi Party and as Hitler's Chief of Staff.

In the subsequent division of power, Drašković received the high-ranking position of Serbia and Montenegro's foreign minister.

In the play Thaka Ala, published just before the 1962 coup, U Nu paints an extremely ugly picture of corruption both amongst the high-ranking politicians in power at the time as well as among the communist leaders who were gaining ascendancy.

Other problems soon arose: the Morituri process being performed on a trio of killers with the intent to assassinate the surviving members of the Strikeforce and the Prime Minister, and the fragmentation of the Paideia back into independent nation-states due to the exposure of the conspiracy ( by a high-ranking government minister ) to kill the Prime Minister in order to seize power.

He's the president of the Serbian parliamentary administrative board as well as a high-ranking official of the ruling coalition that's held power in Serbia since 2008.

According to Geneive Abdo IRGC members were appointed " as ambassadors, mayors, cabinet ministers, and high-ranking officials at state-run economic institutions " during the administration of president Ahmadinejad Appointments in 2009 by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have given " hard-liners " in the guard " unprecedented power " and included " some of the most feared and brutal men in Iran.

These regimes are kept in power by a select elite such as high-ranking politicians and military leaders.

At the time, Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and when the Party took power in 1933, he remained the head of the labour organization-now called the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst, or NSAD.

Whereas Germany, when it began rearming following Hitler's rise to power, eagerly embraced concepts of mechanised warfare as advocated by individuals such as Heinz Guderian, many high-ranking officers in Britain had little enthusiasm for armoured warfare, and the ideas of Basil Liddell Hart and J. F. C.

He served as second-in-command for years, seemingly content with his position, but he schemed with another high-ranking Zhentarim, Lord Orgauth, a pit fiend, and eventually ousted Manshoon from power.

At the time, Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and when the Party took power in 1933, he remained the head of the labour organization-now called the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD.

However, for this to be possible, high-ranking officials from the previous regime had to be ejected from power.