As president and especially as prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev has been the butt of many jokes in Russia, where political observers have predicted his resignation since he took office. Medvedev has a reputation for clumsy, sometimes even foolish public appearances.

I now resume my responsibility as President of the Council.

Mine, replies Medvedev. Remember, I just replaced you as president again.

Abbas will now bask in the glow of having been elected.

The monarch denies his role as the chief of the states and the main political actor.

South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has ably served as head of the World Bank s oversight committee and would make a brilliant World Bank president.

Mubarak, after all, is already in his 24th year as president.

After all, he served as prime minister for several months in 1999.

She worked as United Nations Chief of Protocol from 1998.

In exercising his functions as Chairman, the Chairman shall remain under the authority of the Committee.

LONDON Ali Abdullah Saleh is finished as Yemen s president.

As head of government, the prime minister presides over the cabinet.

Apart from my judicial functions, as Chief Magistrate I also performed administrative functions.

My conception of my role as Soviet president compelled me not to intervene.

In December 2011, Kabila was re elected for a second term as president.

On some occasions the middleman appears to be the chairman of several of those businesses.

There is also the question of who will succeed Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman.

Widespread protests are continuing for the 14th day across Egypt calling on Hosni Mubarak to step down as president.

This was not the case at the beginning of Bush's term as president.

Gordon Brown obviously wants to succeed Tony Blair as British prime minister.

I speak as someone who has been on the receiving end of Russian imperialist designs.

As president, he talked of economic performance as if it could be improved by decree.

Fils Aimé has served as the Head of Marketing for Guinness in the United States and was responsible for all brands.

As Chief Magistrate I presided over summary cases and indictable cases proceeding summarily.

As Chief Magistrate I also exercised exclusive jurisdiction over applications under the Gaming and Betting Acts.

Fortunately, it was soon filled by his worthy successor, Mahmoud Abbas, as head of the Palestinian Authority.

It is accountable to the Council and is headed by a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who also serves as the Council Chair.

This impulse strongly affected his choice of a successor when he decided to step down as prime minister.

Putin s ambition to stay in power as prime minister is also rooted in this rebalancing act.

Carter took office hoping to normalize relations with China.

Nepal s Parliament has elected Mr. Sushil Koirala (75), the president of the party Nepali Congress, as the new Nepali Prime Minister.

Because of the ambiguity surrounding Louis Napoleon's political positions, his agenda as president was very much in doubt.

Before Putin resigned as president in May 2008, he presented his Russia 2020 program.

At the end of this month, James Wolfensohn s ten year tenure as President of the World Bank comes to an end.

After the 2011 revolution, he was appointed as an interim prime minister before leaving office after the constituent assembly election of 2011.

During his first period as President, he headed the single party regime of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) for 12 years.

In August 2005, however, he announced his intention to step down as leader of the UPC.

He served as President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland from 1884 to 1886.

First, we wish to commend you for the thoughtful and most diligent manner in which you are carrying out your duties as President.

In some cases resident coordinators might be relieved of their role as head of a UNDP country office.

Initially serving as the president of the first post Derg government, and then as Ethiopia s prime minister from 1995 until his death, Meles (his nom de guerre in the revolution) oversaw 7.7 annual GDP growth in recent years.

One would assume that Obama would prove even more unsettling to bin Laden.

After all, Lula was the first trade union leader ever elected to the presidency of a Latin American country.

The 2008 version of Prime Minister Putin will undoubtedly be stronger than the 1999 version.

In 2011, he attempted to dismiss Heider Moslehi, an ally of Khamenei, from his position as intelligence chief, but was quickly overruled.