Jordan also believed the film's success was a result of the film's British / Irish political issues being either lesser-known or completely unknown to American audiences, who thus flocked to the film for what Jordan called " the sexual politics.

Douglas Hurd, once Home's private secretary, and many years later his successor ( after seven intermediate holders of the post ) as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, wrote this personal comment: " The three most courteous men I knew in politics were Lord Home, King Hussein of Jordan, and President Nelson Mandela.

Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external politics, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan.

Jordan retired from politics in 1979 and became an adjunct professor teaching ethics at the University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

Along with Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and close confidante of Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Jordan is remembered for her advocacy of progressive politics.

The BM entered electoral politics in 1969 when Jordan put himself forward as a candidate for the Birmingham Ladywood by-election.

A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics.

* Water politics in the Jordan River basin

Jordan became active in Democratic politics in the 1930s, working as a fundraiser for the North Carolina Democratic Party.

Bean had blamed the associations with Nazism that Jordan and Tyndall brought on the party's marginal position in British politics.

Jordan got his start in politics as Communications Director for then-Congressman Tim Johnson in his successful run for the Senate.

Jordan has become known as an influential figure in American politics.

Beginning in 1998, he covered the domestic and international politics of Jordan for the English-language Jordan Times.

In Superman & Batman: Generations-an AU where all heroes are shown aging in real-time -, Sinestro attacks Earth to try and eliminate Hal Jordan-who here went into politics rather than heroism, rising to the position of President in the 1980s -, but is defeated when Jordan dons Alan Scott's ring, having realised that the rings actually have no vulnerabilities except what the user believes they possess.

In a subplot, test pilot Hal Jordan barely survives the flight of an experimental rocket plane, and decides to retire and go into politics.

In Jordan, opposition politics had long been forbidden, and since the 1950s the Muslim Brotherhood had been the only legal political party.

Although Islamic opposition politics never became as widespread in Jordan as in Iran and Egypt, they were pervasive enough for the regime to act swiftly to bring them under its aegis.

Jordan went against Pauli's advice, and reentered politics after the period of denazification came to an end under the pressures of the Cold War.

Ernst Feder and Rudolf Olden ran the domestic politics section, while Josef Schwab, Max Jordan, and Maximilian Müller-Jabusch handled foreign politics.

Middle Eastern studies ( sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies or Arab studies ) is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations extending from North Africa in the west to the Chinese frontier, including Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and multiple other nations.

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.

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We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all.

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The politics of Greece takes place in a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Greece is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The politics of Iraq takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic.

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Some lcoal media, which takes an interest in state or provincial news can rise to prominence due to their investigative journalism, and to the local region's preference of updates in national politics rather than regional news.

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