In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

High-ranking politicians and top level government officials that dominate global political scene and foreign affairs, headline major current events, play a pivotal role in domestic and international politics have a tremendous impact in day-to-day media have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Given Guatemala's large expatriate community in the United States, it is the top remittance recipient in Central America, with inflows serving as a primary source of foreign income equivalent to nearly two-thirds of exports.

Officially, the chancellor was a one-man cabinet and was responsible for the conduct of all state affairs ; in practice, the State Secretaries ( bureaucratic top officials in charge of such fields as finance, war, foreign affairs, etc.

Since 1990, Hungary's top foreign policy goal has been achieving integration into Western economic and security organizations.

In July 1953, Hoxha handed over the foreign affairs and defense portfolios to loyal followers, but he kept both the top party post and the premiership until 1954, when Shehu became Albania's prime minister.

During the war, government officials stressed to foreign visitors that, with the conclusion of a peace settlement, problems of irrigation and flooding would receive top priority from the government.

Strong economic growth potential, a large domestic market, EU membership, and a high level of political stability are the top reasons U. S. and other foreign companies do business in Poland.

The line was perceived as a slap at NBC Nightly News main anchor John Chancellor, who due to his background as a foreign correspondent, felt the network should weigh its news more heavily toward world events, and had kept Franco's deathwatch at the top of the headlines.

It is also ranked number two on Rotten Tomatoes ' top 100 foreign films list.

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the co-operation with France is a top priority for the UAE's foreign policy.

The top of the package covers all of this delicate assemblage without crushing the bond wires, protecting it from contamination by foreign materials.

Blatter has often referred to the English Premier League as one of the major problems in football and uses it as an example, due to the influence of foreign players, coaches and owners in the top teams.

Zhou is best known as the long-time top aide to Mao Zedong, specializing in foreign policy.

Exhibition competitions are held at regular intervals every year in Japan, and approximately once every two years the top ranked wrestlers visit a foreign country for such exhibitions.

After the Battle of Waterloo, France was occupied by 1. 2 million foreign soldiers ; occupation continued until 1818, by around 200, 000 Allies, and France was made to pay the costs of their accommodation and rations, on top of the reparations.

Within the Reagan administration, the doctrine was quickly embraced by nearly all of Reagan's top national security and foreign policy officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, U. N.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, one of the top French scientists of the day, mentored Lamarck, and helped him gain membership to the French Academy of Sciences in 1779 and a commission as a Royal Botanist in 1781, in which he traveled to foreign botanical gardens and museums.

State Councillor Dai Bingguo, one of China's top officials on foreign policy, is the most prominent Tujia in the Chinese government.

That foreign song remains to this date the one which has been for the most weeks at the top of the French charts.

Starting in 1933, there was a pure ski jumping competition, which made it easier for foreign jumping specialists to compete for the top positions.

The section's final page shows the top fifteen best selling books on U. S. foreign policy and international affairs according to Barnes and Noble's online book sales.

These superstructure vehicles were draped in silken flags and cloths, with bamboo and other wooden type frames, foreign musicians dressed in rich fabrics sitting on the top playing music, and the whole cart drawn by oxen that were covered in tiger skins and outfitted to look like rhinoceroses and elephants.

Alexander Hamilton realized while serving as Washington's top aide that a strong central government was necessary to avoid foreign intervention and allay the frustrations due to an ineffectual Congress.

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

Being the top of bureaucracy, permanent secretary no longer maintain political neutrality as they are bridging public and lower civil servants ’ suggestion and giving advices to directors and executives ; practically they are holding power for policy-making.

Due to these important engagements, a group of economists, affiliated with the College and engaged in policy-making, has earned the unique name of “ Sogang School .” And the College has risen immediately to contend with the top economics departments in Korea.

At the top of the hill the buildings on the left gave way to a park.

Back at the Kaiser's Fountain, I walked left to the streetcar stop and rode up the hill -- any car will do -- past the Column of Constantine, also known as the Burnt Column, at the top on my right.

The Koreans fell back, but regrouped at the top of the hill and pinned down the cavalrymen with a screen of fire.

Yet everywhere else sameness was stucco and wood in square blocks -- like fortresses perched against the slant of the hill, rising with the hill to the top where the church was and beyond that to the cemetery.

The battlements run along the top of the hill.

However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed.

Routinely the hero meets a mysterious death, often at the top of a hill ; his body is not buried ; he leaves no successors ; he has one or more holy sepulchres.

Leaving a part of their army surrounding the bottom of the hill, they pushed a huge column up to the top, hoping to drive the Zulu down into the blocking forces below.

Shaka waited until the column was almost at the top, then ordered his fresh reserves to make a flanking " horn " attack, sprinting down both sides of the hill to encircle and liquidate the ascending Ndwandwe.

Kearny ordered his men to dig in on top of a small hill.

He strategically placed his longbowmen on top of a high hill, so that they had a better range than the English longbowmen, who were overwhelmed down on the low ground.

The top of the hill and the whole of the south and east sides are covered with enormous pines whose dark green is enhanced by a pleasant foreground of cabbage palms and banana trees, and I also observed a low bush among them the fruit of which resembles our red currants but is much larger and hangs in purple and red clusters that help to give the whole a gay appearance.

His descendants, especially Nero, with his " Golden House " enlarged the house and grounds over and over until it took up the hill top.

The word Palātium came to mean the residence of the emperor rather than the neighbourhood on top of the hill.

An example of deliberate mechanical energy storage is the use of logs or boulders as defensive measures in ancient forts — the logs or boulders were collected at the top of a hill or wall, and the energy thus stored used to attack invaders who came within range.

The ancient part of the town is in a spectacular position on the top of a hill, where it preserves a particular medieval historical center, with ruins of a castle ( Castello della Fava ) and a square panoramic tower of the 13th century.

If it came from halfway up the hill, this would signify all was well, but from the top of the hill it would signify danger.

It is situated on top of an 800 ft ( 244 m ) hill, at the convergence of a number of major roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way ( A429 ).

Original title: " Colonel Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the top of the hill which they captured, Battle of San Juan Hill.

It was constructed during the mid 10th century by the Berber ruler Badis ben Habus of the Kingdom of Granada in al-Andalus, occupying the top of the hill of the Assabica on the southeastern border of the city of Granada.

Without further orders, the Army of the Cumberland continued up hill and captured the Confederate's secondary entrenchments on top of Missionary Ridge ; forcing the defeated Confederates into disorganized retreat.

The historical town is placed on top of an isolated hill north of the alps, in the foothills of mount Moléson.

The town developed beneath the castle, which the Count of Gruyere had built on top of the hill, to control the upper Saanen valley.