After this performance, why give the Republicans another turn at the helm?

Christopher Helm, London.

He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.

The UN has never had a female secretary general in its 70 year history, and some argue it's time for a woman to be at the helm.

Finally years after Enron's collapse Lay faces charges for what happened when he was at the helm.

Good government requires good people at the helm who have leadership qualities and the best interests of the people at heart.

With Clinton at the diplomatic helm, the US once again made its alliances in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia both a core principle and the key operational mechanism of its foreign policy.

Now South Africa, the region s economic engine and home to its most sophisticated universities, media, and corporations, has a former goat herder at its helm, a rare African leader with the common touch.

This will no doubt change as a result of the crisis, even if Bernanke remains at the helm.

On the contrary, that anti corruption good governance agenda precedes and outlives the person at the helm of the institution.

Many are happy to see the end of the Muslim Brotherhood's days at the helm of Egyptian politics. Rasha Abdulla states

Indeed, our era will likely be remembered as the time when a new global order, with China at the helm, was born.

The anxiety over Jacob Zuma s election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone for the first time in decades, a sub Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.

I take this opportunity to extend to him our appreciation for the impressive leadership he is displaying at the helm of the CTC.

In the short term, while Kadima will get fewer votes without Sharon at the helm, some voters will be swayed by sympathy for the stricken leader.

With Serbia at the helm, the Council, which aims to promote human rights and the rule of law, is now overseen by a state that thumbs its nose at the Genocide Convention and harbors an indicted war crimes suspect, former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic.

In Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, we will now witness a period of unabashed populism. The ruling coalitions were reconstructed, with new faces at the helm.

Otherwise, its turn at the G 20 s helm risks resembling the chaotic Czech presidency of the European Union in 2009, which confirmed some larger EU members belief that it is a mistake to let smaller countries do the driving.

The Smithsonian Institution developed its network of observers over much of the central and eastern United States between the 1840s and 1860s once Joseph Henry took the helm.

As dynamic emerging economies evolve to take their place at the helm of the world economy, a rethink of the conventional approach to global economic governance is needed.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters across Egypt are continuing in their call for president Hosni Mubarak, who has been at the helm for 30 years, to leave power.

Moreover, Medvedev, who was at the helm of the state owned gas giant Gazprom for the last six years, is likely to be constrained in a more prosaic way.

My country has full confidence in his integrity and competence, which he has demonstrated over the years, both as a staff member and at the helm of the Organization.

Dick Cheney clearly cannot be held responsible for corporate misconduct after he left Halliburton, but there is mounting evidence about misconduct that took place while he was at the helm.

If politics is defined as the art of compromise, Arafat was a master of it at the Palestinian and Arab levels. He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.

The French team s performance may reflect the mood of the country, but the failure of France s international stars to jell reflected, above all, a total absence of leadership at the helm.

The Palestinian born journalist, who was at the helm of the network for eight years, is being replaced by a member of the Qatar royal family, Shaikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani.

Joseph Sepp Blatter succeeded to win his fourth (and hopefully final) term at the helm of the most powerful and lucrative sports organization in the world. Here are some of the reactions online

Hungary s turn at the EU helm comes at a time of fierce debate over Prime Minister Victor Orbán s alteration of constitutional law and suppression of press freedom, as well as a new round of worries about the country s financial sustainability.

Yet it would be wrong to dwell excessively on current leaders weaknesses, for to do so presupposes that with different leaders at the helm, an Israeli Palestinian agreement could be reached through bilateral negotiations.

And this turns out to have a special power all its own, because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm, not because they enjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at they were there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what they thought was right.

Since Marine Le Pen took the helm, she has proven herself able to combine the National Front s trademark anti immigration stance, the hard core of its ideology, with praise for the state and the Republic.

Why would they jeopardize such real and symbolic gains with rash and untested moves? There is no Bismarck at the helm of Chinese diplomacy, but there is no impetuous Kaiser either just relatively prudent and competent technocrats.

It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin and created the ongoing mess.

Surprisingly, both local and international analysts had predicted them to finish third, behind the Nepali Congress (NC) and the United Marxist Leninists (UML), the two largest parties that have been at the helm since multi party democracy was restored in Nepal in 1990.

But I can surely tell you that in my country, much like on Wall Street and the city of London and elsewhere, men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector, and that kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

The Commission considered agenda item 10 at its 23rd and 24th meetings, on 29 March 2005, at its 25th and 26th meetings, on 30 March, at its 27th meeting on 31 March, at its 50th meeting, on 14 April, and at its 51st meeting, on 15 April.

The Commission considered agenda item 19 at its 52nd meeting, on 15 April 2005, at its 53rd meeting, on 18 April, at its 55th and 56th meetings, on 19 April, at its 59th meeting, on 20 April, and at its 60th and 61st meetings, on 21 April.

The Sub Commission considered agenda item 6 at its 12th meeting, on 5 August, its 14th meeting, on 8 August, at its 16th meeting and at the public part of its 17th meeting, on 9 August, at its 18th meeting, on 10 August, and at its 20th meeting, on 11 August 2005.

The Commission considered agenda item 9 and sub item (a) at its 19th and 20th meetings, on 23 March 2005, at its 21st meeting, on 24 March, at its 23rd meeting, on 29 March, at its 50th meeting, on 14 April, and at its 60th meeting, on 21 April.

The Commission considered agenda item 17 at its 48th meeting on 13 April 2005, at its 51st and 52nd meetings, on 15 April, at its 53rd and 54th meetings, on 18 April, at its 58th and 59th meetings, on 20 April and at its 60th meeting on 21 April.

The Commission considered agenda item 9 and sub item (a) at its 19th and 20th meetings, on 23 March 2005, at its 21st meeting, on 24 March, at its 23rd meeting, on 29 March, at its 50th meeting, on 14 April, and at its 60th meeting, on 21 April.

373 The Commission considered agenda item 12 at its 34th meeting, on 5 April 2005, at its 35th and 36th meetings, on 6 April, at its 37th and 38th meetings, on 7 April, at its 39th meeting, on 8 April, and at its 57th meeting, on 19 April.

The Commission considered agenda item 17 at its 48th meeting, on 13 April 2005, at its 51st and 52nd meetings, on 15 April, at its 53rd and 54th meetings, on 18 April, at its 58th and 59th meetings, on 20 April, and at its 60th meeting, on 21 April.