Villepin's family derives from the middle class ( the family was never aristocratic, and was responsible for adding the particle " de " to their own name ).

Villepin's most famous assignment as Chirac's Foreign Minister was opposing the U. S. plan to invade Iraq, giving France a leading role in the grouping of countries such as Germany, Belgium, Russia and China that opposed the invasion.

The most prominent name on the list was that of Nicolas Sarkozy, Villepin's rival for power in the UMP.

Meanwhile, the source of the list was later revealed to be a longtime associate of Villepin's, one Jean-Louis Gergorin, an executive at EADS.

Villepin's cabinet was marked by its small membership ( for France ), and its hierarchical unity: all members had the rank of Minister, and there were no Secretaries of State, the lowest cabinet member rank.

Another major issue in Villepin's government was the state of the national budget.

Villepin's margin of maneuver in that respect was extremely slim.

In 2005, a labour conflict at the SNCM in Marseille, followed by a 4 October 2005 demonstration against the New Employment Contract ( CNE ) marked the opposition to Dominique de Villepin's right-wing government ; Villepin shared his authority with Nicolas Sarkozy, who, as Minister of the Interior and leader of the right-wing UMP, was already a probable 2007 presidential candidate.

He was Minister of Health for almost two years in Dominique de Villepin's government under President Jacques Chirac, then Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in François Fillon's second government.

Moreover, Butler was Villepin's schoolmate and friend from l ' ENA, the elite public servants school.

On 16 May 2006, François Bayrou and is 10 other UDF deputies voted for the motion of censure brought by the Socialist deputies calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government, following the Clearstream affair.

On 16 May 2006, François Bayrou voted for a motion of no confidence sponsored by Socialist deputies calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government following the Clearstream affair.

This event resulted in criticism even from Villepin's own UMP party, with UMP parliamentarians including Assembly vice-president Yves Bur suggesting that president Chirac should appoint another Prime Minister.

* Azouz Begag, delegate minister of equal opportunities in prime minister Dominique de Villepin's cabinet.

Villepin's flawed advice on the election increased the perception among many politicians on the right that Villepin had no experience or understanding of grassroots politics, and owed his enviable position only to being Chirac's protégé.

While Villepin's measures would surely have been approved by his wide UMP majority in Parliament.

( As de Villepin's UMP had an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the motion failed.

His aim was hurried ; ;

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

The aim was to state the results of all available determinations of atomic positions in crystals.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

According to Thucydides, the official aim of the League was to " avenge the wrongs they suffered by ravaging the territory of the king.

The aim of the restoration was to reverse the decay of centuries of attrition, pollution, destruction by acts of war, and misguided past restorations.

His aim, in suiting the text to the views of his day, was partly to make it more intelligible to the public, and partly to make it more complete.

The aim of the council was to end the schism ; to this end they deposed Gregory XII and Benedict XIII and elected the new pope Alexander V in 1409.

The aim of the expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with a similar expedition to Peru, today in Ecuador, near the equator.

The aim was to find an appropriate way of introducing Schiller's ode.

The paradox of the early Bauhaus was that, although its manifesto proclaimed that the ultimate aim of all creative activity was building, the school did not offer classes in architecture until 1927.

An attempt to improve the life of the anodes or the efficiency of the plasma generators must, therefore, aim at a reduction of the anode loss.

Many bacteria, however, possess mechanisms ( such as siderophores ) for scavenging iron within environmental niches in the human body, and experimental developments of iron chelators, therefore, aim to reduce iron availability specifically to bacterial pathogens.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

A soul should therefore aim toward becoming more full of fire and less full of water: a " dry " soul was best.

The Church has, therefore, according to Pius XII, a common aim with Christ himself, teaching all men the truth, and, offering to God a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice.

There is no known cure for eczema ; therefore, treatments aim to control the symptoms by reducing inflammation and relieving itching.

: It is our aspiration and our aim that everyone should become socially conscious and effective ; but to achieve this end, it is necessary to provide all with the means of life and for development, and it is therefore necessary to destroy with violence, since one cannot do otherwise, the violence which denies these means to the workers.

Despite their territorial gains following the Paris Peace Conference, the Greeks still hoped to achieve the Megali Idea and annex Constantinople and larger areas of Ottoman Asia Minor ; they therefore invaded Anatolia beyond Smyrna and sought to take Ankara, with the aim of destroying the Turkish resistance led by Mustafa Kemal ( later known as Atatürk ).

The suggestion that Fitzwilliam close prompted an outcry from former students and it was therefore decided that it should aim for collegiate status.

His view that Napoleon was legitimately fighting for the long-established French aim of ' natural frontiers ' and that Napoleon merely inherited a foreign ' situation ' ( and therefore did not create his own foreign policy ), has been contended.

It holds that the unassailable basis for union among Theosophists, wherever and however situated, is " similarity of aim, purpose and teaching ," and therefore has neither Constitution, By-Laws nor Officers, the sole bond between its Associates being that basis.

This funding has therefore enabled the University to establish new teaching facilities at its Archway campus with the aim of creating an academic community of mental health and social work practitioners, students and faculty in one location.

The delegation was therefore willing to sacrifice this proposal in order to placate the Australian delegation and thus help satisfy its overarching aim of preserving the unity of the British Empire.

Prison abolitionists aim to do this by changing the socioeconomic conditions of the communities that are affected the most by the prison-industrial complex, and by supporting the funding of social programs that will help lower the rate of crimes, and therefore lower eventually end the need for policing and prisons.

The ultimate aim was to force prisoners to " confess " to imaginary crimes or " denounce " themselves and others, therefore prolonging their prison sentences.

The aim of Shklovsky is therefore to isolate and define something specific to literature or " poetic language ": these, as we saw, are the " devices " which make up the " artfulness " of literature.

According to the critics, Esperanto should aim to be a common European tongue, and therefore its lexicon and spelling system should be a consensus of the Western European languages.

The aim of paleoecology is therefore to build the most detailed model possible of the life environment of previously living organisms found today as fossils.

Some internet service providers have therefore developed alternative products that aim to deliver leased-line type services ( Carrier Ethernet-based, zero contention, guaranteed availability ), with more moderate bandwidth, over the standard UK national broadband network.

The chief aim of all Sufis then is to let go of all notions of duality ( and therefore of the individual self also ), and realize the divine unity which is considered to be the truth.

He therefore gathered an army of 20, 000 men, mainly from V Corps, and launched an expedition into Extremadura with the limited aim of capturing the fortress at Badajoz and hopefully drawing some of the Allied forces away from their impregnable positions in the Lines.

Section 4 therefore achieves its aim through political rather than legal means, including through Section 10 which allows the government to amend legislation without full legislative approval.

The trial ’ s principal aim was to work out the appropriate dosages of the drug, therefore the drug ’ s safety profile and effects will need to be confirmed in larger, longer-term studies, particularly as patients would need to take it for the rest of their lives ( or until a better treatment is available ).

Although private and therefore fee-paying, the school awards a number of full scholarships each year ( around 10-15 % of the overall student number ) in furtherance of the school's aim to be socially just.