He later cancelled the plans however, on March 20, 2011, he oversaw the burning of a Quran.

He oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949.

The military project manager who oversaw the creation of the code?

He oversaw land acquisition on behalf of the Palestine Land Development Company whose work led to the establishment of a Jewish state.

In February 2013, Mayer oversaw a major personnel policy change at Yahoo!

The Equal Opportunities Ombudsman and the Equal Opportunities Council oversaw compliance with the Act.

He oversaw a popular struggle for independence, advocating a peaceful resistance to Yugoslav rule and lobbying for U.S. and European support, especially during the Kosovo War.

Many Russian industrialists, such as the founders of Yukos Oil, oversaw their businesses' stunning growth.

In 2003, the US Embassy oversaw the renovations of an Islamic secondary school in Kigali.

It oversaw the movement of 185 prosecution witnesses and 115 defence witnesses from 21 countries.

The Soviet Union may have been doomed, but the world has Gorbachev to thank for the fact that the empire he oversaw ended without a bloody conflagration.

He oversaw the later stages of the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament, including the installation of the 13.8 tonne hour bell, Big Ben , in the clock tower.

Well compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure it came in on budget and on time.

As the Assistant Director, she oversaw the health and life insurance programmes for Federal employees, retirees and their families.

During the same period, the Council oversaw 17 different peace keeping operations involving approximately 75,000 personnel throughout the world.

He then took a job as a secretary at Universal Studios' New York office, and was later made studio manager for their Los Angeles facility, where he oversaw production of a hundred films during his three years with the company.

Having decided to expand the record business to include film equipment, Charles Pathé oversaw a rapid expansion of the company.

More broadly, as the head of Putin s presidential administration, Medvedev directly oversaw the construction of today s authoritarian system of Russian governance.

The Subcommittee reviewed and developed policy and strategy for women and, most importantly, oversaw the implementation of work in that area.

UNICEF provided a coordinator for the social sectors, oversaw the water and education sector reviews and contributed to the health sector review.

First, as Lee Buchheit, the attorney who oversaw the Greek private restructuring, has proposed, maturities on official Greek debt could be greatly extended.

In implementing its mandate, the Commission oversaw and directed the work of 1,000 Iraqi core staff and over 20,000 Iraqi temporary electoral workers.

In summer of 1918 he oversaw the victory in the Battle of the Piave River and later that year led the Italian troops in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, which ended the war on the Italian front.

A fashionable approach was known as twin peaks, whereby one regulator handled prudential regulation setting capital requirements while another oversaw adherence to business rules.

Working closely with the Association of South Eastern Asian Nations (ASEAN), we mediated between rebels and the government and oversaw the decommissioning of weapons.

Until reforms in the 1990s, the government had strict control of the media and oversaw all publishing, in which no independent media was allowed.

A decade ago, I oversaw preparation of the US Pentagon s East Asian Strategy Report , which has guided American policy under the Clinton and Bush administrations.

The reason, the lawsuit claims, is that these men oversaw an institutional culture that punished those who reported the assaults, while refusing to punish the attackers.

More significantly, the Office of the High Representative oversaw the transfer of almost all domestic legal staff from the Rule of Law Department to the Court.

More broadly, as the head of Putin s presidential administration, Medvedev directly oversaw the construction of today s authoritarian system of Russian governance. So it was only appropriate that he should become deputy prime minister for social affairs in 2005, because he had already succeeded in largely bringing these affairs to a halt.

The MINUGUA Public Information Office oversaw a substantial public education effort in which Mission staff gave informative talks and workshops about the peace accords in communities all around the country.

Over the next two years, she oversaw growth of the staff including the addition of a fundraising team, and a move of the headquarters from St. Petersburg, FL, to San Francisco.

In this capacity, he also oversaw several investigations of war crimes committed in northern Italy in 1944 inter alia, vs. Seifert, an Ukrainian prisoner acting as a Kapo in a Nazi Camp and indicted on counts of 15 murders, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Tribunal.

Consistent with Mozambique apos s policy of promoting household level food security, the operation oversaw the distribution of 33,000 tons of seed and nearly 5 million tools to over 1 million beneficiary families.

The Department of Education and Science Gender Equality Unit focused on the education sector, while the Ministry of Finance Gender Equality Unit oversaw the implementation of equality policies in the employment of civil servants.

Del Ponte is pressing Serbia s government to cooperate in the still unresolved cases of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who ordered, implemented, and oversaw the massacre of 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

Additionally, the Team oversaw movement planning for personnel and equipment, liaised with Iraqi Security Forces and the Multinational Force and helped the Electoral Commission to sustain communications between individual polling stations and its headquarters in Baghdad.

It had established maternal and infant care centres, while a Higher Committee for Childhood oversaw all matters related to the child, and was responsible for policies and programmes to ensure the well being and health of children.

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.

After coming to power in 1993, Heydar Aliyev stopped the war with Armenia over the Nagorno Karabakh enclave, secured Azerbaijan s existence as a sovereign state, and, as the oil and gas sector flourished, oversaw the country s growing international authority.

The Ministry also oversaw the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and worked closely with UNAMA and political parties to promote women's political participation and to assist women candidates in the elections.

UNMIL in Liberia disarmed and demobilized over one hundred thousand persons as part of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration exercises that ended in October 2004, during which time the Mission also oversaw the destruction of weapons and ammunition handed in by former combatants.

The case dates back to 2008 2011, when Ashraf, who was Minister of Water and Power at the time, oversaw large contracts to rent power generators, which were needed to ease an electricity shortage that was costing the economy up to 5 of GDP.

And here is another painful thought that Harvard historian Niall Ferguson often emphasizes many of the leaders and legislators who are passing judgment on new rules for banks are the same leaders and legislators who oversaw the regulation in the run up to the financial crisis.

The Act also regulated the functions of the Judicial Council, a largely administrative body composed of five members appointed by the Minister of Justice, which oversaw the financial affairs of the district courts, ruled on judicial assignments and transfers, and issued binding rules on judicial practice.