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This led to Lawson resigning as chancellor to be replaced by his old protégé John Major, who, with Douglas Hurd, the then Foreign Secretary, convinced the Cabinet to sign Britain up to the ERM in October 1990, effectively guaranteeing that the British Government would follow an economic and monetary policy that would prevent the exchange rate between the pound and other member currencies from fluctuating by more than 6 %.
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In 1813, he led the first known European expedition across the area of the Great Dividing Range known as the Blue Mountains, along with William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, on a journey which would open up the inland of the continent.
He began a heavy schedule of performing, composing, and recording, leading several small live and groups, now often with racially integrated bands led by musicians such as Eddie Condon, Yank Lawson, Sidney de Paris, Sidney Bechet, Rod Cless, and Edmond Hall.
Lawson has become renowned for her flirtatious manner of presentation, and the perceived overt sexuality of her presentation style has led to her being labelled by several commentators as the " queen of food porn ".
DES was first synthesized in early 1938 by Leon Golberg, then a graduate student of Sir Robert Robinson at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory at the University of Oxford, based on a formulation of Wilfrid Lawson at the Courtand Institute of Biochemistry, led by Sir Edward Charles Dodds at Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the University College London of the University of London, and a report of its synthesis was published in Nature on February 5, 1938.
In 1813 Wentworth, along with Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson, led the expedition which found a route across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and opened up the grazing lands of inland New South Wales.
In 1813 Lawson, with Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, led an expedition westwards from Sydney to cross the Blue Mountains.
Garland was originally cast in the movie as Lawson, until her constant tardiness on the set and disapproval of the script led to her dismissal and Susan Hayward replaced her.
Louisa Lawson's vigorous lobbying led to the establishment of the slab-and-bark Eurunderee Public School in 1876 with Henry Lawson attending the school for the first time aged nine.
As the number of children with intersex conditions referred to Lawson Wilkins ' new pediatric endocrinology clinic at Hopkins increased, it was recognized that doctors " couldn't tell by looking " at the external genitalia, and many errors of diagnosis based on outward appearance had led to anomalous sex assignments.
He left this role in 1983 to join the American Enterprise Institute and, although he returned to advise Thatcher in 1989, his differences with the policies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, led to the resignation of both later in that year.
Blaxland is named for Gregory Blaxland who along with William Lawson and William Wentworth, led the exploration that discovered a route over the Blue Mountains in 1813.
The car led the series at the half-way mark, but then passed into the hands of Peter Lawson, who revamped it for 1968.
Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham ( 15 August 1931-1 January 2005 ) was a successful executive with The Daily Telegraph, prior to its takeover by Conrad Black in 1986, and later led a successful career in the House of Lords.
Beginning December 28, 1700 Lawson led a small expedition out of Charleston and up the Santee River by canoe and then on foot to explore the Carolina backcountry.
In early 1942, Lawson, now a First Lieutenant and already a veteran B-25 pilot, was accepted as a volunteer for the mission led by then-Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle to bomb Tokyo with 16 carrier-launched B-25 Mitchell bombers from aboard the USS Hornet ( CV-8 )-the first air raid on mainland Japan during World War II following the Pearl Harbour attack.
These workshops were led by James Lawson, who had studied the principles of nonviolent resistance while working as a missionary in India.
However, after ten years without progress, law school student Jack Lawson led a committee to plan a radio station.
Ex-Philadelphia Flyer Andre Lacroix led the league in scoring, and ex-Buffalo Sabre Danny Lawson scored 61 goals ; they would prove over the years to be two of the WHA's brightest stars, and Lacroix eventually was the league's all-time leading career scorer.
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The discouragement felt by Katayama as regards his prospects at Nissan, led to his going on the verge of resigning, when Datsun ’ s 1958 Australian Mobilgas victories vaunted him, as leader of the winning Datsun teams, to national prominence in a Japan bent on regaining international status.
With Aziz constitutionally completing his term and the suspension of the Chief Justice in 2007, Musharraf dramatically fell from the presidency in 2008 after voluntarily resigning in a facing threat of impeachment led by the people-elected opposition parties.
She led the ALP to a record win at the 2005 election, before resigning as Chief Minister on 26 November 2007.
During the 1936 military coup led by Bakr Sidqi against the government of Yasin al-Hashimi, Ja ’ far, who was serving as minister of defense, was sent to talk to Bakr Sidqi in an attempt to stop the violence and inform Sidqi of the new change in government, that of Hashimi resigning and Hikmat Sulayman ( who Sidqi supported ) being made prime minister.
In the 2002 national election, he produced a flyer criticizing Ariel Sharon's actions against Palestinians and Michel Friedman's endorsement of those actions ; the flyer was regarded as " antisemitic " by some, and the debate surrounding these events led to Möllemann leaving the FDP in March 2003 and resigning his position as NRW party leader ; however, he kept his seat in the Bundestag without party affiliation, despite promises to resign from it.
He was at once re-elected for Kiama, but an extremely hostile article in the Sydney Morning Herald led to his resigning again.
However, a clash of personalities between Stephenson and Vignoles led to the latter resigning, leaving Locke as the sole assistant engineer.
His split over Algeria with < span lang =" fr "> Edgar Faure </ span >, leader of the conservative wing of the Radical Party, led to < span lang =" fr "> Mendès France </ span > resigning as party leader in 1957.
Sonthaya Kunplome also was reported to have led 20 members of the Chonburi faction in resigning from the party.
Ultimately this led to Hartnett resigning from his position as Managing Director of GMH, shortly before the launch of the Holden in 1948.
The resulting scandal, the Guillaume Affair, led to Brandt's resigning the chancellorship.
Ill-health led to his resignation in 1698 but he returned to the government in 1699 until resigning again in 1700.
His actions regarding Europe eventually led to his resigning the Tory whip for a temporary period.
Chisholm's unexpected resignation immediately following the election led to a period of internal party strife, with new leader Helen MacDonald, a former Cape Breton MLA, resigning after barely a year.
Shooter was also involved with complex politics at Marvel Comics ( which eventually led to him resigning his position ), and thus could not give the line as much attention as he would have liked.
Kyle Chapman then led the party until resigning as leader in 2005, with Bolton rejoining in 2004.
Hutcheon made use of the Scottish Freedom of Information Act to establish his case, which ultimately led to McLetchie resigning both as Conservative leader and as a partner in Edinburgh law firm Tods Murray.
The fall of Brüning led to Goerdeler resigning as Price Commissioner.
Chartres was soon mocked by street ballads in Paris, and the embarrassment led to Chartres eventually resigning from the Navy.
As pilot and aircraft commander of a B-52D Stratofortress, he led a combat crew of six, accumulating over 2, 000 hours of jet experience before resigning as a captain in 1983.
This and political reasons led to many of the senior Palmach officers resigning in 1950.
However the move only increased Maidstone's financial woes due to a sharp drop in attendances, and in December 2009 it was revealed two months of staff pay was to be deferred to the end of the season, a move that led to Alan Walker and Lloyd Hume resigning as managers of the club.
In 1811, he led a mass meeting of Knox County citizens that condemned Archibald Roane for resigning from the state legislature to run for circuit court judge.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( born November 13, 1953 ), also known as AMLO or El Peje, is a Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District from 2000 to 2005, before resigning in July 2005 to contend the 2006 presidential election, representing the Coalition for the Good of All, a coalition led by the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) that includes the Convergence party and the Labor Party.
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