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Moreover, Barkat has appointed King to serve as a representative in the city planning and building council and as a replacement representative in the higher regional council.
At the European Council on Foreign Relations’ annual council meeting in Berlin last month, 250 former and current prime ministers, foreign ministers, policymakers, and thinkers convened to discuss the state of European affairs.
The highest council of Saudi religious scholars recently declared demonstrations to be categorically un-Islamic.
In a sign of unity, a council of Sunni Muslim scholars in the eastern city of Lahore issued a fatwa, signed by 50 clerics, saying that the justifications cited by the girl’s attackers were “deviant” and had no basis in Islamic law.
And, while presidential elections are expected to be held in Egypt this month, Tahrir Square remains a theater of bloody protests against the military council that has ruled since former President Hosni Mubarak’s fall.
For example, a “group of wise persons” who do not seek political positions could oversee the creation of a provisional council that includes all relevant political groups and coalitions, the military councils, the business community, and religious leaders.
According to Mikhail Yuriev, a member of the political council of the Eurasia Party and author of the utopian novel The Third Empire, the oprichniks should be the only political class, and they should rule by fear.
In this imaginary history, Venice assembles a council of experts to decide whether the risks posed by the trade deficit merit retaliation in the form of tariffs, quotas, or potentially even a ban on trade with China.
As the council deliberates, two competing theories emerge.
For this, it would have to have all the trimmings of a proper international Institution - two Secretary Generals, a political and a military committee, a council of permanent representatives etc.
The United States Congress is about to finalize a bill that will grant resolution authority over major US financial institutions to a newly formed systemic council.
The US military has had ample opportunities (and still has) to eliminate the Taliban’s Rahbari Shura, or leadership council, often called the Quetta Shura because it relocated to that Pakistani city.
And, to ensure fairness, it seeks the restoration of the GST Disputes Settlement Authority provided for in the original bill, so that the GST council administering the tax would not rule on its own decisions.
An expert council will send him its proposals by November 1.Whereas British democracy is deeply rooted despite its supposedly “unwritten” constitution, and the US constitution has been amended only 26 times since 1787, France has redrafted its constitution 15 times since 1789.
Nobody can forecast what will emerge from the expert council Sarkozy has appointed to consider these constitutional changes.
Given that the blatantly pro-government electoral council had delisted the three main opposition parties and disqualified two major political leaders, much of the opposition boycotted the process.
It is crucial that the Internet’s central protocols be declared a neutral zone, free from interference by any party, as per a recommendation by the scientific council that is advising the Dutch government.
Not until Charles de Gaulle’s 1958 Constitution was even a limited assessment of a law by the Conseil Constitutionnel (Constitutional Council) allowed, and then only with extensive precautions.
The Barcelona municipal council, as part of a broader social-cohesion plan, launched the “anti-rumor campaign,” which uses a comic book series to combat negative stereotypes about migrants.
They also belong to several large tribes, guaranteeing wide tribal representation if a military council were to take power, as in Egypt.
So widespread is this view that even noncommunist socialist parliamentarians in Poland proposed a law that is supposed to control access to pornography with the help of a council of twelve (I would love to be one of them!) who will spend their days browsing through hundreds, if not thousands, of periodicals and movies in search of the salacious, and decide what to ban.
Despite being imprisoned, Barghouti was recently elected to Fatah’s central council, and a number of others who spent time in Israeli prisons will join him.
It means establishing a very high-level political council to take strategic decisions critical to global stability.
Delusional GermanyBERLIN – In recent days, Germany’s representative on the European Central Bank’s governing council has expressed strong disagreement with the ECB’s decision on November 7 to cut its benchmark interest rate.
This was the diagnosis offered two years ago by the so-called “Four Presidents” (the European council president in close collaboration with the presidents of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the Eurogroup).
The Motlanthe high-level panel’s proposals include strengthening land administration systems in informal settlements and traditional council areas, and facilitation of the subdivision of agricultural land.
All of this is part of a larger program that attempts to measure changes in the city’s quality of life, so that the city council can know whether it is taking the community in a desirable direction.
The council wants Port Phillip to be a sustainable community, not merely in an environmental sense, but also in terms of social equity, economic viability, and cultural vitality.
The CCP calls a “congress” every five years to pick a new Central Committee, choose the nine members who comprise the Standing Committee of the Politburo, China’s supreme ruling council, and thrash out new initiatives and policies.
And, unlike Hu, he immediately became head of the military and now runs a parallel national security council.
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