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Already, George Osborne, immediately sacked as Chancellor of the Exchequer when May took office, has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging her democratic mandate: “Brexit won a majority.
At a critical moment for Sri Lanka’s peace process, President Kumaratunga was so incensed by the policies of her political rival, Prime Minister Wickremessinghe, that she sacked three of his ministers and called elections almost four years early.
Najib has promised a full reckoning, but he has sacked Malaysia’s attorney general, who was investigating 1MDB.
The storm had hardly settled when Obasanjo sacked General Aliyu Gusau, his powerful National Security Adviser.
Collaboration between business and government leaders to strengthen key reforms and forestall credit rating downgrades floundered when finance minister Pravin Gordhan was sacked from President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet in March.
The authorities also sacked prominent professors who had influenced and supported the students.
This week, President Constantinescu sacked the prime minister, who in turn refused to leave office.
Before I chose to protest to the editor who sacked me a week ago, I was guilty of complicity too.
I stayed silent when the paper's popular cartoonist (Larry Feign) was unjustly dismissed, and remained silent even after its best satirical writer (Nury Vittachi) was sacked.
Partly in response to this challenge, Anwar was sacked.
Shamalov was sacked from Siemens after 16 years of loyal service.
Their political duel was aggravated recently when the President, wary that her prime ministerial rival was "too soft" in dealing with the rebel Tamil Tigers, sacked three ministers and took over their portfolios.
As I traveled around the island admiring its ancient capitals, notably the ones sacked by Tamil kings, and Buddhist shrines set up to counter the impact of Hinduism, I began to understand the traumas endured by the Sinhalese.
JERUSALEM – The dissolution of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, just a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sacked two senior cabinet ministers, marks a surprising turnabout.
Netanyahu, with his weak and vacillating leadership exposed, sacked his opponents, Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (who also denounced Netanyahu’s settlement-construction plans), and called for new elections.
Likewise, the sacked public prosecutor had failed to present any solid evidence against those of Mubarak’s security chiefs and officers who were accused of killing protestors, leading to acquittals for almost all of them.
The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief were sacked, but the open questioning of the legitimacy of the government’s authority to regulate journalism is bound to have a profound impact.
Salaries are being slashed and public employees sacked to reduce new borrowing to a tolerable level.
In 2009, Saleh sacked al-Ahmar’s key backers, including Central Command Chief General al-Thahiri al-Shadadi and Lieutenant General Haydar al-Sanhani, from power.
Where the country’s newly invigorated democracy goes from here rests with one man, Anwar Ibrahim, the deputy prime minister sacked by former premier Mahathir Mohamad and later jailed.
After being out of his office for almost a year because of illness, on his return in March 1997 Yeltsin sacked practically his entire cabinet, accusing them of not working, and claiming that a little anxiety was a good way to teach Russians how to do their jobs.
The interior minister was sacked.
So he did what French Presidents usually do in such circumstances: rather than admit that French voters might be right, he sacked Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin as a scapegoat, replacing him with his protégé Dominique de Villepin, who has never held an elective office.
Just last month, President Petro Poroshenko sacked the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the billionaire tycoon Igor KolomoiskyMore recently, the authorities have been working to reform the energy sector – a hub of corruption.
Pedro Pou, Argentina's central bank president and a strong defender of the standard view, was sacked, and the bank increased credit sharply.
Recently, a Polish vice-premier, Janusz Tomaszewski, was sacked because a special judge sent his case to the "lustration" court.
Impotent ministers and governors should be sacked, while their offices should be given more authority.
None of the culprits has been sacked, while the editor of Izvestiya was sacked as a punishment for accurate reporting.
Russia’s domestic elites pose another threat to Putin, which is why, since August 2014, he has sacked one KGB general after another, and has sought to eliminate potential rivals.
Escalating popular protests by both incumbent and opposition supporters in Madagascar brought the country to a standstill until the army itself splintered and sacked the president’s office and central bank, forcing the president to step aside in favor of the opposition leader, Andry Rajoelina.
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