Example sentences of "over the presidency " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This hunger-striking buffoon sneaks out to eat so he can be well fed when he takes over the presidency , but he is screwed , ’ General Noriega said of his opponent . |
| 2 | The death of Kenyatta in 1978 , with no constitutional change accomplished , left the way open for Daniel Arap Moi to take over the presidency and to be confirmed in a national election as president within three months . |
| 3 | The most important conscious attempt to solve the succession problem was made by Leopold Senghor in Senegal , who successfully handed over the presidency to Abdou Diop in 1980 after the re-introduction of a multi-party system in 1977 . |
| 4 | He said that the Italian Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers , in July should ‘ convene and open ’ the treaty revision conference before handing over its presidency in December next year . |
| 5 | The main responsibility will fall on the Irish Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC council of ministers at the end of the month , and the Italians , who take over in July . |
| 6 | The Irish Government , which takes over the Presidency of the European Community at the end of the month has expressed its determination to give higher priority to environmental issues . |
| 7 | AS the Irish Prime Minister , Mr Charles Haughey , prepares to take over the presidency of the European Economic Community on Monday , promoting his country is high on the agenda . |
| 8 | Mr Major 's claim to have emerged from the shadow of his predecessor will be tested in July when he takes over the presidency of the EC for six months . |
| 9 | The UK government , which is due to take over the presidency in the Council in the latter half of 1992 , will set the enforcement of existing Community legislation as a top priority during its presidency . |
| 10 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 11 | George who is Director , International Banking Services , took over the presidency at the Centre 's annual general meeting after serving for 12 months as Vice President . |
| 12 | The British Government , mindful no doubt of the prospect of taking over the presidency at the end of the month and apparently unaware of the flagging support in the country for Maastricht , pressed on with the approach which had been agreed at Oslo of ‘ helping ’ the Danes to change their minds while preserving the Treaty intact . |
| 13 | If the Foreign Secretary is still here — which I doubt — when Britain takes over the presidency of the European Community , will he insist that some race legislation is passed in the European Community to protect black and minority ethnic citizens when they move around Europe ? |
| 14 | Perhaps that will be our task when we take over the presidency of the Community next July . |
| 15 | As established in exploratory talks which took place in January-March 1990 , a major obstacle to the achievement of the EES in the forthcoming negotiations with the EC was EFTA 's demand for equal status with the EC in a joint decision-making body , particularly sought by Switzerland which was due to take over the presidency of EFTA on July 1 . |
| 16 | Santer visited the Soviet Union on Oct. 21-24 , 1990 , shortly before the Grand Duchy took over the presidency of the European Community Council for the first half of 1991 . |
| 17 | Klestil , 59 , a career diplomat who had been ambassador to the USA and permanent representative at the UN , would take over the presidency from Kurt Waldheim for a six-year term beginning on July 8 . |
| 18 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 19 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 20 | Roger Flemington FCIB , took the chair and , at the conclusion of the meeting , formally handed over the Presidency to Sir Jeremy Morse KCMG , FCIB . |
| 21 | TELEVISION personality Jonathan Dimbleby marked taking over the presidency of the Council for the Protection of Rural England by launching a £500,000 appeal to fund ‘ the battle to protect the English countryside . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Smith used the opening speech of Labour 's first European conference in Brighton to criticise John Major for his handling of events since the UK took over the presidency of the European Council of Ministers in July . |