The British Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair, was also vacationing in the Sharm el Sheikh area.

He did this until Sir Robert Peel, then Prime Minister, basically kicked him out of Number 10 Downing Street, and kicking him out, in those days, that meant saying, I bid you good day, sir.

After a particularly horrible massacre in 1996, a new prime minister, John Howard, declared that enough was enough.

The Clinton administration attempted to put brakes on then Prime Minister Netanyahu s efforts to construct a new settlement near Bethlehem.

Internationally, Australia long had a well earned reputation for decency on refugee issues.

From the moment the DPJ took power in 2009, Kan was tacitly slated to be Hatoyama s successor, given that he was concurrently Hatoyama s deputy prime minister and treasury minister. In these posts, Kan avoided involvement with the two issues that wrecked Hatoyama s premiership the controversial base relocation issue, and debates over budget cuts.

Then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said that he decided to purchase the islands for the Japanese central government to prevent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara from purchasing them with municipal funds.

For example, in August 2007, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe headed a big delegation to India, followed by an official visit in December 2009 by current Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

At the end of February in Niamey, Niger s capital, armed troops surrounded the presidential palace and arrested President Mamadou Tandja in the midst of a cabinet meeting.

Matters came to a head after the 1997 financial crisis, when Anwar, the deputy prime minister, adopted an even more economically liberal approach than Mahathir.

But no sooner had the parties left Washington after the talks broke down than Clinton joined Israel's then Prime Minister Ehud Barak in blaming the Palestinians.

On 12 July, an explosion in a northern suburb of the capital caused the death of one person and injuries to 13 others, including the then Deputy Prime Minister and current Minister of Defence, Elias Murr.

Turkey s latest transformation began with the severe economic, political, and social turmoil of 2001, which then Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit called a crisis of the Turkish state.

Orange Revolution In 2004, Viktor Yanukovych, then Prime Minister, was declared the winner of the presidential elections, which had been largely rigged, as the Supreme Court of Ukraine later ruled.

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Greece in October 2010 and agreed to strengthen cooperation between China and Greece during a meeting with then Prime Minister George Papandreou timely support that the weakened Greek government was delighted to receive.

Last October, Greece s then prime minister, George Papandreou, proposed a popular referendum on the second rescue package that had just been agreed at the EU s summit in Brussels.

Brown has longed to be prime minister ever since May 12, 1994, the fateful day when John Smith, the Labour Party s leader in opposition, dropped dead of a heart attack.

Then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono broke the ice in 1993, expressing sincere apologies and remorse to all those who had suffered immeasurable pain.

That was then.

Gaza Then and Now

My years of service overseeing the World Bank s operations in China had put me in close contact with some of the country s senior leaders, including then Prime Minister Zhu Rongji.

Back in 1997, many Asians thought that the speculative attacks then being mounted on Asian currencies were unjustified, with Malaysia s Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir leading the charge against speculators.

Soon after the outbreak of war with Germany on 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Robert Menzies appointed a British officer, Lieutenant General Ernest Squires, to replace Lavarack as Chief of the General Staff.

The reconvening of the National Convention represented the first step of the seven point road map for national reconciliation and democratic transition , according to the then Prime Minister, General Khin Nyunt.

The government includes a Council of Ministers, headed by the prime minister and five deputy prime ministers.

Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country s ruling coalition.

I wish I had been kind to her then.

I was in Canada then.

Her name was Agnes then.

Austerity Politics, Then and Now

Opening China, Then and Now

The Right to Equality, Then and Now

Those were my dreams for the moment.

The third case opened an old complaint lodged by a politician decades ago against the troika composed of the president, the prime minister, and the chief of army staff that then governed Pakistan.

He also appoints the prime minister and senior ministers, and must approve all other ministers, ambassadors, and state representatives.

The Council of Ministers is made up of the Chief Minister, members of the House of Assembly designated by the Chief Minister and some elected members.

I was a baby then.

Sami didn't have a job at that time.

Back then the academy was called a Drawing School.

A majority of the Cabinet, including the Prime Minister, must be members of the Diet (but may be members of either house), and all members must be civilians.

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

The main executive power lies in the cabinet headed by the prime minister.

Fadil had the same mindframe at that time as Dania.

I was only thirteen years old at that time.

Nor were the protesters actions peaceful.