|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
make
... Read more |
|
|
prime minister
prime minister or premier, chief member of the cabinet in a parliamentary system of government. The prime minister is head of the government, in contrast with the head of state, who may be a constitutional monarch, as in Great Britain, or an elected official, as in the case of the president... Read more |
|
United Nations Declaration
UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION. Soon after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill hastened to Washington, D.C., and with President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a "Declaration by United Nations," open to all nations, the... Read more |
|
William Jefferson Hague
William Jefferson Hague hāg , 1961-, British politician, leader (1997-2001) of the Conservative party , b. Rotherham, Yorkshire. After graduating from Oxford, he worked briefly in industry, then (1989) won election to Parliament. In 1995, Conservative prime minister John Major named Hague... Read more |
|
Stavka
Stavka. From June 1941, the Soviet armed forces did not have an explicitly designated commander-in chief. The function was assumed to be vested in the People's Commissar (minister) of Defence, Marshal Timoshenko, who, upon the outbreak of a general war, would organize a stavka (general... Read more |
|
Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke (Robert James Lee Hawke), 1929-, Australian statesman. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he gained a reputation as a skillful labor mediator during his tenure at the Australian Council of Trade Unions, of which he eventually became president. He served as national president of the Labor party... Read more |
|
Nondecision-Making
Nondecision-Making BIBLIOGRAPHY Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz (1970) first introduced the concept of nondecision-making, contesting the dominant explanation of the use of power in decision-making by asking how issues are suppressed and the scope of decision-making restricted. This was a... Read more |
|
Muhammad Gaafur al-Nimeiry
Nimeiri, Gaafar Muhammad al- (1930– ) Sudanese statesman. He led campaigns against rebels in the southern Sudan in the 1950s and joined in leftist attempts to overthrow the civilian government. Following a coup, he became Prime Minister in 1969 and Chairman of the Revolutionary Command... Read more |
|
|
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad , 1925-, Malaysian political leader. A doctor by training, he first entered parliament in 1964 and rose in the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), but lost his seat and was expelled from UMNO in 1969 after criticizing Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman . Subsequently... Read more |
|
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor YushchenkoFebruary 23, 1954 • Khoruzhivka, Sumy Oblast, UkrainePresident of UkraineViktor Yushchenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine from December 1999 to April 2001. After being voted out of office 263 votes to 69 votes, Yushchenko became leader of Our Ukraine, a political coalition (a... Read more |
No reference documents or articles match the search term GLADSTONE'S CABINET OVERRULED THE PRIME MINISTER'S FIRST ATTEMPT TO MAKE
Suggestions: