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According to the TNS Sofres poll for Le Figaro Magazine, Sarkozy’s popularity tumbled a whopping eight percentage points in January, to just 41%, the lowest level since he took
office
last May and down from a high of 65% in July.
This Amendment bars US Presidents from holding
office
for more than two four-year terms.
Blair made the fatal mistake of setting his own limit to his tenure of
office
by saying that he would not contest a fourth election as leader of the Labour Party.
But, even without such a vow, he would find it difficult after nine years in
office
to combine a program of reform with a sense of what can be achieved given the mood of his party and of the country.
Political office, it seems, is more addictive than heroin.
The addiction to political
office
is always worrisome, because democracies turn into autocracies when leaders cease to recognize the limits of their power.
He has seemingly breached every norm of his
office.
But Trump’s overall approval rating has fallen substantially, reaching lows that only two previous presidents have touched in the first six months in
office.
(In that case, he would have had to leave
office
without a valuable pension.)
Obama also helped to cement bilateral ties with most countries in the region, visiting nine out of ten during his two terms in
office.
MEXICO CITY – Shortly before America’s elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joseph Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a “generated” international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union “tested” John F. Kennedy shortly after he assumed
office.
Her knowledge was based on Finnish foreign
office
records.
The Constitutional Court now has six months to justify her permanent removal from
office.
Soon after, our
office
workers were detained, and Hailu Shawel, Chairman of the CUD, and senior CUD official Lidetu Ayalew were put under house arrest.
One hundred staff members were taken from our head
office
in Addis Ababa alone, and many more from regional offices.
Compared to the crooks and demagogues who preceded him in
office
(not long ago, one was filmed stashing millions in cash behind the altar of a local monastery), President Mauricio Macri and his team of well-trained technocrats are a massive improvement.
Because none of Macri’s team had previously held national office, analysts and investors initially underestimated their political skills.
A president-elect typically uses the transition time to make cabinet choices and to study up on the issues he will soon confront, but keeps quiet on policy until he’s been sworn into
office.
The national court and the patent
office
did not, as far as we can establish from their websites, examine these exclusions from patentability either.
They should not, it now seems clear, be left to the patent
office
or even the courts.
In fact, the European Patent
Office
(EPO) is not particularly committed to assessing the moral implications of the patents it grants; in its view, “ordre public” would be violated only in the extreme case of a truly outrageous invention.
As a result, while the application procedure allows for third parties to submit to the patent
office
their observations on the claimed invention’s patentability, it is unlikely to spur a genuine assessment of an application’s moral implications.
An opposing third party would have to shoulder the entire burden of proof, while the patent
office
avoided taking any real action, in order to avoid “presumptuous” interference in the public debate.
These prohibitions are based not just on the need to protect human embryos, but also on concerns relating to the availability of donated egg cells, on which parthenogenesis depends – an issue that neither the courts nor the patent
office
have considered.
If there ever were need for yet another clinching argument for a presidential system in India, it is the spectacle of the head of government abandoning the responsibilities of that
office
every few months to go on the stump for their party.
At the end of a fixed period of time – say, five years, as India’s MPs are currently accorded – the public would be able to judge their leader’s success at improving citizens’ lives, rather than at keeping a government in
office.
The joke – which was not always a joke – was that if you suspected someone of being a CIA agent, you should immediately phone the local Indian intelligence office, but you should not be surprised if the same person answered the phone.
If it sticks to its principles, it could end up ceding victory to the “bad” party, which will do even more harm once it is in
office.
Most recently, concerns have focused on the treatment of some of the leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations: three of the city’s most influential activists were sentenced to up to eight months in prison for their activities, and have been prohibited from seeking public
office
for five years.
Certainly, many of the women now in power, or running for office, are doing so on the basis of their track records.
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