A number of ministers were then revealed to have committed sexual indiscretions, and Major was forced by media pressure to dismiss them.

The UDSG cabinet ministers resigned, and M ' Ba called an election for February 1964 and a reduced number of National Assembly deputies ( from 67 to 47 ).

The UDSG cabinet ministers resigned, and M ' Ba called an election for February 1964 and a reduced number of National Assembly deputies ( from 67 to 47 ).

" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, President Chaim Herzog, all cabinet ministers present in Israel, Supreme Court justices, Knesset members from most parties and a number of foreign ambassadors attended the funeral.

The Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact is commonly referred to under a number of names in addition to the official one and the one bearing the names of the foreign ministers.

Members of the State Council include the Premier, a variable number of vice premiers ( now four ), five state councilors ( protocol equal of vice premiers but with narrower portfolios ), and 29 ministers and heads of State Council commissions.

In 1810, a number of Presbyterian congregations and ministers, ejected by Kentucky Synod for their pro-revival position and their relaxation of ordination requirements in a frontier setting, formed the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination, although they never intended the split to be permanent.

Gay men and lesbians are also regularly ordained as ministers, and a number of gay and lesbian ministers have, themselves, now become legally married to their partners.

Gay men and lesbians are also regularly ordained as ministers, and a number of gay and lesbian ministers have, themselves, now become legally married to their partners.

It is alleged that the increased personalisation of leadership in a number of states has led to prime ministers becoming themselves " semi-presidential " figures, due in part to: media coverage of politics that focuses on the leader and his or her mandate, rather than on parliament ; and to the increasing centralisation of power in the hands of the Prime minister.

The ministers believed that they were left with only one alternative: to create a large number of new peerages, swamping the House of Lords with pro-reform votes.

Finding the affairs of the realm in disorder, he purged the royal administration of a great number of ministers and judges.

This number was thought to be the most likely to foster a local feeling of identification: for merchants to get to know their customers, ministers their memberships, and teachers their pupils and parents.

Callaghan and his ministers did, however, introduce a number of reforms during their time in office.

When there is a larger number of ordained ministers than ruling elders, additional ruling elders are appointed to redress the imbalance.

According to the Basic Law, the chancellor may set the number of cabinet ministers and dictate their specific duties.

With an unbelievable number of political entities and institutions piled up on a small territory of 30, 500 square kilometers, Belgium holds the European record of the most costly political system: no less than 57 ministers and state secretaries spread across six different governments, which are surrounded by seven parliaments and a dozen provincial governments.

Royal decree also institutes the ministries ( Article 44 ), which have tended to be very variable in number and scope, and non-departmental ministers ( Subarticle 2 ), who officially have no ministry but whom in fact is assigned the necessary personnel and who sign and are responsible for a partial budget.

But he annoyed a number of ministers and was heavily censured by the privileges committee for a leak about the biological weapons research establishment Porton Down to the newspapers ( though he claimed that he thought the minutes were in the public domain ).

Christ Church has produced thirteen British prime ministers, which is equal to the number produced by all 45 other Oxford colleges put together and more than any Cambridge college ( and two short of the total number for the University of Cambridge, fifteen ).

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

He was in and out of Mount Alto Hospital for veterans any number of times.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Net income was $2,557,111, or $3.11 per share on 821,220 common shares currently outstanding, as compared to $2,323,867 or $2.82 per share in 1959, adjusted to the same number of shares.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

Rather the monthly total consumption was divided and charged on the basis of number of rooms and persons in the family.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

An unusual increase in the number of bronchial arteries present within the substance of the lung was noted.

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.

He played a number of typical situations before observers, other supervisors who kept notes and then explained to him in detail what he did they thought was wrong.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

This Europeanization of the law was made explicit by a number of 19th century scholars.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.