It delegates some of its powers to the Secretariat and the Politburo when it is not in session.

* Chapters XIV and Chapter XV establish the powers of, respectively, the International Court of Justice and the United Nations Secretariat.

The Pacific Community, or more commonly the Secretariat of the Pacific Community ( SPC ), is a regional intergovernmental organisation whose membership includes both nations and territories in the Pacific Ocean and their metropolitan powers.

The fifteenth congress adopted new statutes which gave the powers of the United Secretariat to two new Fourth International committees: an International Committee, which meets twice a year, and an Executive Bureau ( which also refers to itself as the International Bureau ).

" The major countries, the major powers hold very high positions in the Secretariat and support their national interests and refuse to allow the Secretary General to cut departments ," he claims.

The Prime Minister of Russia Alexander Kerensky recognized the Secretariat, appointing it as the representative governing body of the Russian Provisional Government and limiting its powers to five guberniyas: Volyn Governorate, Kiev Governorate, Podolie Governorate, Chernigov Governorate, and Poltava Governorate.

* November 9-the commander of the Kiev Military District General Kvetsinsky refused to recognize the Regional Committee which in turn was dissolved transferring all its powers to the General Secretariat

Famine and disease significantly decreased the population of the German states and Bohemia, the Low Countries, and Italy, and most of the combatant powers were bankrupted.

After the Soviet intervention, the powers of the PDPA decreased because of the government's increased unpopularity amongst the masses.

Indeed, since the office of Vice President, once vacant, no longer remains vacant until the end of the presidential term, but is now filled by presidential nomination confirmed by Congress, the likelihood of there ever being a time when there is simultaneously neither a President nor a Vice President able to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency has greatly decreased.

In the beginning of the 20th century, as medicine and health-awareness advanced, the validity of the Springs ' healing powers decreased slightly, but the hotel still flourished, and in 1905, a major renovation of the complex included a monumental double-decked colonnade, which connected the hotel's main dining room to a columned pavilion at the Magnesia Springs across Shober's Run, as well as a new building with a spring-fed indoor pool, reportedly the first such facility in the United States at the time it was built.

However, revolutions and the rise of new powers decreased the power of the Bornu empire and caused them to lose control over the oasis town of Bilma and access to the Trans-Saharan trade in 1759.

In 1961, Goulart was allowed to take office, under an arrangement that decreased his powers as President with the installation of Parliamentarianism.

The powers and responsibilities of the counties were constantly decreased and were transferred to ministries in different fields of special administration, like responsibilities in terms of construction, veterinary medicine and ( overall ) financial management.

The result is a new breed of Planeswalkers, sometimes called " neowalkers ," " planescrawlers ," or " jumpers " by fans because of their exponentially decreased powers.

By doing this, Sukarno had decreased Nasution's powers as the ABRI chief of staff was only responsible for administrative matters and commanced no troops.

Of all the non-neutral powers, only the GDP of the United Kingdom had not decreased because of the war ; Germany's GDP was at its 1908 level and France's at its 1891 level.

Most of his cases happened during this period and he was at the height of his powers at this point in his life.

Research results obtained during that period were not shared between the Axis and the Allied powers during the war.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

The boundaries of modern Eritrea and the entire region were established during the European colonial period between Italian, British and French colonialists as well as the lone landlocked African Empire of Abyssinia which found itself surrounded and its boundaries defined by said colonial powers.

People of Eindhoven ( during World War II ) watching Allies of World War II | Allied forces entering the city following its liberation from Axis powers | Axis forces on 19 September 1944.

Throughout the late 1720s Eugene's influence and skilful diplomacy managed to secure the Emperor powerful allies in his dynastic struggles with the Bourbon powers ; but physically and mentally fragile in his later years Eugene enjoyed less success as commander-in-chief of the army during his final conflict, the War of the Polish Succession.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

The Tsar regained his authority after the crisis of 1905, reclaimed his role as the Grand Duke of Finland and, during the second period of Russification between 1908 and 1917, neutralized the functions and powers of the new parliament.

Banks had little to do during the second half but his known powers of concentration were required when Jack Charlton gave away a dubious free kick 30 yards from goal.

At the Yalta Conference during World War II, the Allies ( the U. S., Britain, and the Soviet Union ) agreed on dividing a defeated Germany into occupation zones, and on dividing Berlin, the German capital, among the Allied powers as well.

When regent, during the lifetime of his father, the difficulties arising from conflicting interests and the large demands on his powers had often brought the young prince to the verge of despair.

However, a campaign to reconquer Peru and Chile during the Chincha Islands War ( 1864 – 1866 ) proved disastrous and Spain suffered defeat before the determined South American powers.

Lescot commonly said that Haiti's declared state-of-war against the Axis powers during World War II justified his repressive actions.

For Hungary, this is a history of more than 400 years of domination by great powers — the Ottomans, the Habsburg dynasty, the Germans during World War II, and the Soviets during the Cold War -- and a geography of regional instability and separation from Hungarian minorities living in neighboring countries.

The Constitutional Council shall be consulted with regard to such measures. Parliament shall sit as of right. The National Assembly shall not be dissolved during the exercise of such emergency powers. After thirty days of the exercise of such emergency powers, the matter may be referred to the Constitutional Council by the President of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate, sixty Members of the National Assembly or sixty Senators, so as to decide if the conditions laid down in paragraph one still apply.

Although these continental European powers controlled various coastal regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they eventually lost all their territories in India to the British islanders, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port of Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu.

Hannibal lived during a period of great tension in the Mediterranean, when the Roman Republic established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire.

The development of the Tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign ( 1547 – 1584 ) of Ivan IV (" Ivan the Terrible ").

However, it was never argued by the " Joint Seven-Powers " that put forward the draft resolution, during the corresponding discussions, that it in any way afforded the Assembly new powers.

Germany's exclusion was a result of prejudice towards Germans by the allied powers after World War I Germany was finally admitted into IUPAC during 1929.

Others continue to use the word to describe the style of breakthrough warfare practised by the Axis powers of this period, even if it were not a formal doctrine.

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

The European colonial period was the era from the 1500s to, arguably, the 1900s when several European powers ( particularly, but not exclusively, Spain, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands and France ) established colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Specifically, neocolonialism refers to the theory that former or existing economic relationships, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post – World War II period.

After World War II and a period of international isolation, Franco's regime normalized relations with Western powers in the Cold War, until Franco's death in 1975 and the transformation of Spain into a liberal democracy.

This period saw a gradual decline of these three powers which were eventually replaced by new enlightened absolutist monarchies, Russia, Prussia and Austria.

In this period, the eastern part of the island rose against the new powers following general Juan Sánchez Ramírez's claims of independence from France, which broke the Treaties of Bâle attacking Spain and prohibited commerce with Haiti.

In the same period, the Empire of Japan, following the Meiji Restoration ; the German Empire, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ; Tsarist Russia ; and the United States, following the Spanish-American War in 1898, quickly emerged as new imperial powers in East Asia and in the Pacific Ocean area.

It was a period during which the Sultan's authority and powers were increasingly and decisively taken over by the Chief Minister, much to the chagrin of the British Governor-General who continued to deal with the ineffectual Sultan.

However, following a period of political upheaval in June 1965, Hassan II assumed full legislative and executive powers under a " state of exception ," which remained in effect until 1970.

The text of the Constitution assigns to the Premier certain powers, such as the power to assign roles ( s. 25 ) to Parliamentary Secretaries, and to appoint Ministers as acting Ministers ( s. 45 ) for a period of 14 days.

The period leading up to the Berlin Conference on Africa saw a rush by the major European powers to increase their control of the African continent.

In October 1991, during the " honeymoon " period after his resistance to the Soviet coup, Yeltsin convinced the legislature to grant him special executive ( and legislative ) powers for one year so that he might implement his economic reforms.

He then became Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( a newly established body with legislative and executive powers for what was described as a transitional period ), and assumed the posts of chief of state, prime minister, chief of the armed forces, and minister of defense.

The conduct of the banks cooperating with the Nazis and the commercial relations with the axis powers during the war became the subject of sharp criticism, resulting in a short period of international isolation of Switzerland from the world.

Overall, during the period from 1795 until reestablishment of Poland's sovereignty in 1918, little power was actually held by any Polish legislative body and the occupying powers of Russia, Prussia ( later united Germany ) and Austria-Hungary propagated legislation for their own respective formerly-Polish territories at a national level.

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

It may be questioned, indeed, whether even had his powers been unimpaired he could have carried out any decided policy on any question with a cabinet representing interests so various and conflicting ; but, as it happened, he was incapacitated physically and mentally during nearly the whole period of his tenure of office.

* After a long period of civil wars and conflicts with European powers, China's last imperial dynasty ended in 1912.