In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

He was one of the Deputy Presidents of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until 1996, the last white person to hold the position to date.

He was next assigned to Fort Hood, Texas, as III Corps Deputy Assistant G3, a position he held until 1987 when he assumed command of Division Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division.

Former presidents and vice presidents who are elected or re-elected to the Senate are entitled to the largely honorific position of Deputy President pro tempore.

In 1909, he became Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour, a civil service position.

The position of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the number two position in the department, was also created at this time.

His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General in 1953 through 1959.

In a surprise move, Gorton contested and won the position of Deputy Leader, forcing McMahon to make him Defence Minister.

Later that year, he went to London as Deputy United States Delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, a position he held until February 1946.

In the novel, Jack Ryan is thrown into the position of Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Acting Deputy Director ( Intelligence ) and discovers that he is being kept in the dark by his colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel based in Colombia.

The Court has had three Chief Justices to date, Elizabeth Evatt AC, Alastair Nicholson and Diana Bryant QC ( Formerly Chief Federal Magistrate, appointed to current role in 2004 The Deputy Chief Justice is John Faulks ( appointed as a Judge in 1994 and to his current position in 2004 ).

The three-tailed war flag is also flown at the Royal Palace when the Speaker, or, in his unavoidable absence, one of the Deputy Speakers, serves, at a Government order, as Regent ad interim when no member of the Royal House under the valid order of succession is in a position to serve.

Despite standing, and losing convincingly, against Thatcher in the second round, Whitelaw managed to maintain his position as Deputy Leader until the 1979 general election, when he was appointed Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister in Thatcher's new government.

" In 1949, Molotov was replaced as Foreign Minister by Andrey Vyshinsky, although retaining his position as First Deputy Premier and membership of the Politburo.

The office of Senator and Deputy are incompatible with any other position or employment at the Public Administration.

In the autumn of 1988, Carlucci was called to the Defense Department to succeed Caspar Weinberger, and for the third time among his six appointments to the position of National Security Adviser during his presidency, Reagan promoted the Deputy.

Within OMB, the Deputy Director for Management, a position was established by the CFO Act, is the chief official responsible for financial management.

In 1969, he was appointed Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger, a position he retained until 1970 when President Richard Nixon promoted Haig to Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

The Council adopted the d ' Hondt system in 2001 which allows the position of Mayor and Deputy Mayor to be allocated according to party size.

Prevalent throughout the film is Sheriff's Deputy Fred Ross, who worked at for GM for seventeen years before accepting his sheriff's deputy position, whose job now demands that he go around town carrying out evictions on families unable to pay their rent.

Jukowski previously served as Deputy Mayor, an appointed position under then-Mayor Willie Payne.

The position of Earl Marshal had a Deputy called the Knight Marshal from the reign of Henry VIII until the office was abolished in 1846.

Baldwin, however, refused and took the position of Deputy Premier under Lafontaine.

The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Bogdan Filov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

The Ji family held the position " Minister over the Masses ", who was also the " Prime Minister "; the Meng family held the position " Minister of Works "; and the Shu family held the position " Minister of War ".

* In some instances the right to work in any position ( including the civil service ) is granted, except for certain specific positions, such as in the defense departments, Governor-General or President or Prime Minister.

1986 — In January 1986, following the rift between New Zealand and the USA in respect of the ANZUS security arrangements Prime Minister Tom Davis declared the Cook Islands a neutral country, because he considered that New Zealand ( which has control over the islands ' defence and foreign policy ) was no longer in a position to defend the islands.

The Prime Minister is the head of government of a pluriform multi-party system, while the President is the head of state and holds a largely ceremonial position.

Britain's departure from the ERM led to a fall in the opinion poll ratings for the Conservative Party, which despite the improvement in the economic position, did not fully recover whilst John Major was Prime Minister.

On 23 June, Konoe resigned his position as Chairman of the Privy Council, and on 16 July 1940, the Yonai cabinet resigned and Konoe was appointed Prime Minister.

By convention, one of these, the Prime Meridian, which passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England, establishes the position of zero degrees longitude.

The location of the Prime Meridian as well as the position of body's north pole on the celestial sphere may vary with time due to precession of the axis of rotation of the planet ( or satellite ).

If the position angle of the body's Prime Meridian increases with time, the body has a direct ( or prograde ) rotation ; otherwise the rotation is said to be retrograde.

When the Prime Minister resigns or dies, the position is to be filled as soon as possible and the new leader will appoint a new Government.

He became one of Quebec's leading lawyers and was so highly regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

In Government and Politics in Southeast Asia ' The executive branch has tended to dominate political activity, with the Prime Minister's office being in a position to preside " over an extensive and ever growing array of powers to take action against individuals or organizations ," and " facilitate business opportunities ".

The position of Prime Minister ( head of government ) is held by Dr. Baburam Bhattarai.

The position of Prime Minister was not created ; it evolved slowly and erratically over three hundred years due to numerous acts of Parliament, political developments, and accidents of history.

The political position of Prime Minister was enhanced by the development of modern political parties, the introduction of mass communication ( inexpensive newspapers, radio, television and the internet ), and photography.

The accretion of so much political power in one position gave rise to concerns that the office had become too " presidential ", and that the Prime Minister was an " elected Monarch ".

Furthermore, many thought that the title " Prime Minister " usurped the Sovereign's constitutional position as " head of the government " and that it was an affront to other ministers because they were all appointed by and equally responsible to the Sovereign.

In 1905 the position was given some official recognition when the " Prime Minister " was named in the order of precedence, outranked, among non-royals, only by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Lord Chancellor.

Explicitly recognising two hundred years ' of ambivalence, the act states that it intended " To give statutory recognition to the existence of the position of Prime Minister, and to the historic link between the Premiership and the office of First Lord of the Treasury, by providing in respect to that position and office a salary of ..." The Act made a distinction between the " position " ( Prime Minister ) and the " office " ( First Lord of the Treasury ), emphasising the unique political character of the former.