The present concept of constitutional monarchy developed in the United Kingdom, where it was the democratically elected parliaments, and their leader, the prime minister, who had become those who exercised power, with the monarchs voluntarily ceding it and contenting themselves with the titular position.

In 1935 under prime minister Muhammad Hashim, Afghanistan established a close relationship with Germany, a distinct change of relations in comparison to its usual position between the Russian and British spheres of influence.

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

However, Lord Russell sometimes liked to use this position to speak for the whole government, as if he were the prime minister.

In March 1979, Hafizullah Amin took over as prime minister, retaining the position of field marshal and becoming vice-president of the Supreme Defence Council.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, this is a largely ceremonial position with real political power being vested in the indirectly elected Taoiseach ( prime minister ) who is the head of the government.

In January 1964, UNIP won the next major elections, defeating their ANC rivals and securing Kaunda's position as prime minister.

Miller was also a co-signatory of “ the letter of 8 ”, signed by eight European prime ministers, supporting the US position on Iraq.

Along with his position as Sultan, he is prime minister, defense minister, finance minister, foreign affairs minister and chair of the central bank.

Walpole always denied that he was " prime minister ", and throughout the 18th century parliamentarians and legal scholars continued to deny that any such position was known to the Constitution.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

Most of the prime minister's powers derive from his or her position as the head of the cabinet.

It is not actually clear as to whether there are age or citizenship restrictions on the position of prime minister itself, as it is not necessary for the incumbent to be a sitting MP.

Indeed, the position has been described as undergoing a " presidentialisation ", to the point that its incumbents publicly outshine the actual head of state ; former governor general Adrienne Clarkson alluded to what she saw as " an unspoken rivalry " that had developed between the prime minister and the Crown.

The current prime minister is Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud, the ninth person to hold the position ( excluding caretakers ).

Following an election, the President nominates a member of the Knesset to become prime minister after asking party leaders whom they support for the position.

Aside from the position of acting prime Minister, there are also vice prime ministers and deputy prime ministers.

Ze ' evi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's Menachem Begin became prime minister.

During the 1983 election campaign his position as the prime minister designate for the SDP-Liberal Alliance was questioned by his close colleagues, as his campaign style was now regarded as ineffective ; the Liberal leader David Steel was considered to have a greater rapport with the electorate.

Due to his open-public protest, he was asked to resign from his position by the prime minister Sharif.

Within a few months, the right to exercise the regency over his infant son, John V Palaiologos, and the position of Andronikos'all-powerful chief minister and friend John Kantakouzenos led to the outbreak of a destructive seven-year civil war.

With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.

This was not received well by the King's ministers, and Necker, hoping to bolster his position, argued to be made a minister.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

The Tsar perceived the very real threat of a scandal and ordered his own investigations but did not, in the end, remove Rasputin from his position of influence ; on the contrary he fired his minister of the interior for a " lack of control over the press " ( censorship being a top priority for Nicholas then ).

De Valera resented Collins's clear power and influence, which he saw as coming more from the secretive IRB than from his position as a Teachta Dála ( TD ) and minister in the Aireacht.

Despite his desire to become a minister, near the end of his studies Kepler was recommended for a position as teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz ( later the University of Graz ).

He persuaded St-Laurent that it was his duty to remain in government following the war in order to help with the construction of a post war international order and promoted him to the position of Secretary of State for External Affairs ( foreign minister ) in 1945, a portfolio King had previously always kept for himself.

Iori served with distinction in putting down the rebellion and gradually rose to the rank of karō — a position equal to a minister.

He opposed both the leftist German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, a principled position that defied the political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented Friedrich Ebert, the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as minister or ambassador.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

Moving as he is into the phase of the campaign which demands conviction of him, he adopts a position that is morally indefensible.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.

The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult position than any since 1957, when the `` anti-party group '' nearly liquidated him.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.

Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.