A political party is typically led by a party leader ( the most powerful member and spokesperson representing the party ), a party secretary ( who maintains the daily work and records of party meetings ), party treasurer ( who is responsible for membership dues ) and party chair ( who forms strategies for recruiting and retaining party members, and also chairs party meetings ).

: Dual symbols of defence and authority, they in turn represent the powerful legs of the secretary bird.

Li survived the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution unscathed, due largely to his placement as director and Party secretary of the powerful and influential Beijing Electric Power Administration ( from 1966 – 1980 ), and due to his family contacts in powerful Communist circles.

Lenin, however, had become increasingly anxious about Stalin and, following his December 1922 stroke dictated a letter to the party criticising him and urging his removal as general secretary, a position which was starting to arise as the most powerful in the party.

It is key for the general secretary to seal his diplomatic power by adding the presidency to his powerful collection of titles.

Nông Đức Mạnh (; born 11 September 1940 ) is a Vietnamese politician and was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the Vietnamese government, from 22 April 2001 to 19 January 2011.

As Dynasty begins on January 12, 1981, powerful oil tycoon Blake Carrington ( John Forsythe ) is about to marry the younger Krystle Jennings ( Linda Evans ), his former secretary.

* Georg Kaiser's 1917 play The Coral depicts a powerful industrialist whose male secretary is his exact double.

One union leader who closely observed the experiences of the ARU was Big Bill Haywood, who became the powerful secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ).

He co-founded and served as general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers ' Union from 1922 to 1940, as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government he supported the creation of NATO.

Miloš Jakeš, who replaced Husák as first secretary of the KSC, was sixty-five years of age at the time of his assumption of the most powerful post in the country.

Roosevelt was always close to Welles and made him the central figure in the State Department, much to the chagrin of secretary Cordell Hull, who could not be removed because he had a powerful political base.

James rewarded Cecil, whom he made a privy councillor and secretary of state, earl of Salisbury in 1605, and in 1608 Lord High Treasurer, making him the most powerful man at the royal court.

His secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality, Paul Templet, repeatedly angered Louisiana's politically powerful oil and gas industry.

In 1966, he became the second most powerful person of the party behind the secretary general, Guy Mollet.

In November 2002, at the 16th Communist Party of China National Congress, then-General secretary Jiang Zemin stepped down from the powerful Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China to make way for a younger " fourth generation " of leadership led by Tsinghua engineering graduate Hu Jintao.

Ernő Gerő ( born Ernő Singer ; July 8, 1898-March 12, 1980 ) was a Hungarian Communist Party leader in the period after World War II and briefly in 1956 the most powerful man in Hungary as first secretary of its ruling communist party.

In 1925, Farinacci became the second most powerful man in the country when Mussolini appointed him secretary of the Party.

Protege of Hamdija Pozderac and Branko Mikulić ( SR Bosnia-Herzegovina's highest and most powerful political figures at the time ), Miljuš was well positioned within the communist apparatus as the secretary of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Communist League's Sarajevo branch.

Strauss worked hard and well, and soon was promoted to Hoover's private secretary, a post in which he made powerful contacts that would serve him later on.

Madrazo ran for the presidency of the PRI in 2002, allying himself with Elba Esther Gordillo ( as his general secretary ), the powerful leader of the National Teachers ' Union.

When Lord Kitchener was all powerful in Egypt his secretary was wearing a fez.

At the founding convention of the CTM, the PCM and the industrial unions it had organized had been promised the position of organizational secretary, the second most powerful position within the CTM.

The Colonna family is an Italian noble family ; it was powerful in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one Pope and many other Church and political leaders.

With an increasingly centralized monarchy, the first standing army since Roman times, and the use of artillery, France expelled the English from its territory and came out of the Middle Ages as the most powerful nation in Europe, only to lose that status to Spain following defeat in the Italian Wars.

In many German and Italian cities, the more powerful guilds often had considerable political influence, and sometimes attempted to control the city authorities.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

The powerful Hungarian king, Louis the Great, is an example of someone who used longbowmen in his Italian campaigns.

Anarcho-syndicalism was most powerful in Spain in and around the time of the Spanish Civil War, but also appeared in other parts of the world, such as in the US-based Industrial Workers of the World and the Unione Sindacale Italiana-the Italian Syndicalist Union.

In Renaissance usage, the Italian word cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano (" courtier ") came to refer to " the ruler's mistress ", and then to a well-educated and independent woman of loose morals, eventually a trained artisan of dance and singing, especially one associated with wealthy, powerful, or upper-class men who provided luxuries and status in exchange for companionship.

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of 7 mob associates as part of a prohibition era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran.

" The death of Napoleon in 1821 inspired Manzoni's powerful stanzas Il Cinque maggio ( The Fifth of May ), one of the most popular lyrics in the Italian language.

Olybrius was born in Rome, in the ancient and powerful gens Anicia, of Italian descent.

At the time, the struggle for Italian unification was perceived to be waged primarily against the Austrian Empire and the Habsburgs, since they directly controlled the predominantly Italian-speaking northeastern part of present-day Italy and were, together, the most powerful force against unification.

An entire website, the Goddess Aradia and Related Subjects, is devoted to Aradia as a Wiccan goddess and a powerful spirit in Italian folklore.

They took on organized crime-like powers, and may be more powerful than the Italian crime families within the prison system.

All three Italian Americans aggressively fought to reduce crime in the city ; each was known for his good relations with the city's powerful labor unions.

Altobello supports the idea of Vincent's switching his allegiance, and introduces him to Don Licio Lucchesi ( Enzo Robutti ), a powerful Italian political figure and Immobiliare's chairman.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

The Ottomans built a powerful navy, rivaling the Italian city-state of Venice during the Ottoman-Venetian Wars ( 1499-1503 ).

Michael Glinski was the most illustrious member of the family: he studied at the German university, took part as a knight in the Italian Wars, was the most powerful man in Lithuania in the 16th century, but later rebelled and run away with his brothers to Muscovy and helped the Russians to retake the city of Smolensk.

The Italian fleet at Taranto was powerful: six battleships ( five battleworthy ), seven heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eight destroyers, making the threat of a sortie against British shipping a serious problem.

Towards the end of the 15th century, when the large cities had gradually swallowed up the small states, and Italy itself was drawn into the general current of European politics, and became the battlefield of powerful armies-French, Spanish and German-the condottieri, who in the end proved quite unequal to the gendarmerie of France and the improved troops of the Italian states, gradually disappeared.

Italian fairy tales put them into the hands of the powerful fairies by the late Middle Ages. In the ballads such as Allison Gross and The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea, the villainesses use silver wands to transform their victims.

The period following the end of the Latin War ( 340-338 BC ) and of the Samnite Wars ( 343-290 ) saw the transformation of the Roman Republic from a powerful but beleaguered city-state into the hegemonic power of the Italian peninsula.

He is understood to have induced the Italian ex-premier Giolitti to come to Rome from Turin in the hope that Giolitti's following in the Chamber would be powerful enough to prevent a rupture and to bring about the acceptance of the Austro-Hungarian terms.

Bona was born into the powerful and wealthy Italian Sforza dynasty who had ruled Milan since 1447.