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According to the heterotroph hypothesis, hydrogen was not a chief component of the atmosphere when life began.
Here, adventurer TV personality and chief Scout Bear Grylls offers his best Scout's Honour.
Just last week, Gershom Gorenberg argued in these pages for the abolishment of the chief rabbinate.
Albemarle County police chief Colonel Peter Sellers was also present for the conference.
The reporter quoted the police chief as saying that an investigation would be launched soon.
The intended target, an al Qaeda chief named abd al-Raouf al-Dahab, was not in the vehicle.
By autumn of 1835 Locke had become chief engineer for the whole of the line.
In the south, the Bahmani Sultanate was the chief rival of the Vijayanagara, and frequently created difficulties for the Vijayanagara.
The fire suppression division is commanded by a deputy chief per shift or group.
Easter Islanders claimed that a chief Hotu Matu'a arrived on the island in one or two large canoes with his wife and extended family.
Judicial councils consist of the chief judge of the circuit and an equal number of circuit judges and district judges of the circuit.
The chief justice divided cases evenly between the panels and also decided which cases would be heard en banc by the Court sitting as a whole.
Hydraulic mines, using powerful water cannons to wash whole hillsides, were the chief sources of gold for the next 20 years.
As chief engineer of road construction of Limoges, he had opportunity to develop a better and cheaper method of road construction.
As such he took part in most of the chief events of the conquest of the Inca empire, mainly during the campaigns against Manco Inca.
Mena fled Managua with his brother, the chief of police of Managua, to start an insurrection.
Upon examination, it was found that the chief cause of the nation's poverty was the wholesale alienation of royal estates during Henry's reign.
After the execution of Ahmad Fanakati, Kublai confirmed Arghun's coronation and awarded his commander in chief Buqa the title of chancellor.
The Port of Manila, located in the vicinity of Manila Bay, is the chief seaport of the Philippines.
On 26 December 1541 he agreed to be elected chief of the new expedition and to conquer new lands in name of the king.
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The Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and up to three other judges.
The chief varieties of saltwater fish are kingfish, jack, mackerel, whiting, bonito, and tuna.
The chief or upper portion of the shield depicts an ancient ship on wavers, for Devon's seafaring traditions.
Railroads became a major engine of growth from the 1850s onward, with Detroit the chief hub.
Darrin Webb, the state's chief economist, who noted it would make two consecutive years of positive growth since the recession.
Under the current 1879 constitution, the Court expanded to six associate justices and one chief justice, for the current total of seven.
Its chief officer is designated Commander by the Constitution, and usually holds the rank of Lieutenant General.
Stuart, previously an influential chief whip, was a confidant of Churchill, and possibly the most powerful Scottish Secretary in any government.
Sugriva, the chief of Rama's army dispatched his men to Yawadvipa, the island of Java, in search of Sita.
Thomas Walker was appointed as contractor, with Edward Leader Williams as chief engineer and designer and general manager.
In 1499, he served as the chief pilot in the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda to the coasts of South America.
During this campaign, the chief of the Naristi was killed by the Roman General Marcus Valerius Maximianus.
In AD 19, Adgandestrius, a chief of the Chatti, asked Rome for poison to kill Arminius.
In May 238, soldiers of the II Parthica in his camp assassinated him, his son, and his chief ministers.
However, the chief purpose of such an act is for ceremony or solemnity, and the act does not of itself make an oath.
The north is the chief destination for trekking and adventure travel with its diverse ethnic minority groups and forested mountains.
Their son is reported to be Alfonso II, while Alfonso I's daughter Adosinda married Silo, a local chief from the area of Flavionavia, Pravia.
Each district was independently governed and had a district chief and a council.
The chief export products of the island are dates, ghee, tobacco, and fish.
The most important incident of bribery occurred in 1582 when the viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi summoned Macau's chief officials for a meeting.
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In September 2007, Charles Saumarez Smith became secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy, a newly created post.
Charles's Spanish dominions were the chief source of his power and wealth, and they became increasingly important as his reign progressed.
A chief of Bohol island, named Catunao gave information to Miguel Lopez of Cebu, and accompanied Lopez as a guide.
Kholmogory served as their chief town until the rise of Arkhangelsk in the late 16th century.
The chief opposition figure, the protopope Avvakum, was burned at the stake.
When it's time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.
It required a sketch from the life by Burton of the inky hag who was chief officeress of his brigade to put matters right at home.
The chief of the Dahlak islands exported slaves, as well as amber and leopard hides, to the then ruler of Yemen.
In Boston, the Sons of Liberty burned the records of the vice admiralty court and looted the home of chief justice Thomas Hutchinson.
A circuit justice sitting with the Court of Appeals has seniority over the chief judge of the circuit.
One of the chief complaints was related to the jury trial, and the use of language.
But Blackstone's chief contribution was to create a succinct, readable, and above all handy epitome of the common law tradition.
It has been suggested that prior to British acquisition of the island, the Malay chief in charge of Singapore was the Temenggung of Johor.
Under the original 1849 California Constitution, the Court started with a chief justice and two associate justices.
Ambedkar, the chairman of the Drafting Committee, is widely considered to be its chief architect.
Between 1967 and 1982, each puisne justice was assisted by one law clerk and the chief justice had two.
The town clerk is the chief advisor in each local council council or town board.
Both Gladstone and his chief law officer, the Attorney General, Sir Henry James, were impressed.
When Miller died in 1997 the Canadian rank of air chief marshal effectively passed into history.
In the former administrative organisation, Caen was a part of 9 cantons, of which it was the chief town.
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Ray Wheeler, BHC's chief engineer, was reportedly very pleased with the progress made during the initial trials.
This move deprived Nanjing of its status as chief political center of China.
This principle became one of Darwin's chief pieces of evidence that biological evolution was real.
The chief focus has always been on the society and the physical people who belonged to it.
His chief residence was Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, one of many English castles he built.
Each came in by this contrivance at his own door, and sat at an octagon table, at which, of course, there was no chief place or head.
At the same time the tinctures of the reversed Petrine cross on the field and the chief changed from red to blue.
Due to its gentle local climate and fertile soil, it is the state's largest area of fruit farming, its chief produce being apples.
The chief occupations of the Dacians were agriculture, apiculture, viticulture, livestock, ceramics and metalworking.
Following Napoleon's defeat, Prussia emerged as Austria's chief competitor for rule of a Greater Germany.
Under Scots law, the chief is recognised as the head of the clan and serves as the lawful representative of the clan community.
Alcuin, who ran the palace school and scriptorium at Aachen, was probably a chief influence.
The Emperor appointed the chief justice, always a highborn aristocrat, several divisional chief judges, and some of the other puisne judges.
During Dutch colonial rule, the head of the Cheng Hoon Temple was appointed chief over the community's Chinese inhabitants.
A chief of a clan is the only person who is entitled to bear the undifferenced arms of the ancestral founder of the clan.
Bruges has a significant economic importance thanks to its port and was once one of the world's chief commercial cities.
A group without a chief recognised by the Sovereign, through the Lord Lyon, has no official standing under Scottish law.
They did not maintain relationships even with longtime allies, such as Bai Bureh, chief of Kasseh, a community on the Small Scarcies River.
Gandalf rides for Minas Tirith, chief city of Gondor, taking Pippin with him.
Therapsids and archosaurs were the chief terrestrial vertebrates during this time.
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The community was called Ban Yipun in Thai, and was headed by a Japanese chief nominated by Thai authorities.
Cassava and sago are the chief crops, which also include breadfruit, sugarcane, coffee, cocoa, pepper and cotton.
I've got a station chief who's as mad as a fish, an incomplete briefing, and a gambling-obsessed billionaire to out-bluff.
When Henry tried to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon, Fisher became the Queen's chief supporter.
In 2010, a midden near Aquarina included a burial ground for a chief and two handmaidens.
The chief exports of this state are coffee, fresh fruits, fertilizer, sugar, fish and crustaceans.
A chief forester was appointed with a ceremonial horn, and the position soon became a hereditary responsibility of the Stanley family.
A sign of allegiance to a certain clan chief is the wearing of a crest badge.
At the time of the English arrival, the Powhatan were led by the paramount chief Wahunsenacawh.
A period of peace followed the marriage in 1614 of colonist John Rolfe to Pocahontas, the daughter of Algonquian chief Powhatan.
There is a purported unicorn horn in the castle of the chief of the Clan MacLeod in Scotland, which has been identified as that of an eland.
The chief factor limiting growth varies from region to region in the world's oceans.
Proponents advance the notion that nuclear power produces virtually no air pollution, in contrast to the chief viable alternative of fossil fuel.
His Spanish correspondence with the Signoria reveals his power of observation and analysis, a chief quality of his mind.
The Mayor of Chicago is the chief executive, elected by general election for a term of four years, with no term limits.
Firearms were invented at around the same time, and lead, despite being more expensive than iron, became the chief material for making bullets.
It is organised into eight directorates that report to the chief executive.
In 2014, Alex Sabundu Badeh was appointed Chief of Defence Staff and promoted to air chief marshal.
Since 1795 Rotterdam has hosted the chief congregation of the liberal Protestant brotherhood of Remonstrants.
They were organised as a Church in the 8th century, served by foreign bishops and with a hereditary local chief called Arkadiyokon or Archdeacon.
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The chief staple commodities of North Wales, as well as of the nation at large, are those manufactured of wool.
The IDF chief of staff General Moshe Dayan, first planned to block the vital Mitla Pass.
Glamorgan was served by several airports and airfields, with Cardiff Airport being the county's chief airport.
Jellicoe was disturbed by the Admiralty failure to discuss the raid with their commander in chief of the fleet at sea.
Furthermore, the legitimacy of a chief is a direct determinant of the legitimacy of his decisions.
Gilbert Thornton, the chief justice of the king's bench made an epitome of it.
In combat, the variability of wind power made rowing the chief means of propulsion.
The arrival of Europeans from the late eighteenth century undermined the power of both chief and tohunga.
Maxim was the chief engineer at the United States Electric Lighting Company.
The Governor is the State's chief executive and is assisted by the Lieutenant Governor.
General Montgomery and Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff, were eager to launch the invasion.
The current chair of the council is Professor Terence Stephenson and current chief executive and registrar is Charlie Massey.
In 1973, the appointment of a constitutional law professor, Bora Laskin, as chief justice represented a major turning point for the court.
The appointment of Beverly McLachlin as chief justice in 2000 has resulted in a more centrist and unified court.
Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often.
Hans Jeschonnek the Luftwaffe chief of staff refused to guarantee the success of Cerberus or to reinforce the fighter forces in the west.
There is also a Rural District Council, which appoints a chief executive officer.
He was already known as Cobden's chief ally, and was received in the House of Commons with suspicion and hostility.
The provost, or chief magistrate, was elected from among the council every three years.
Thomas Jefferson saw the Empire as a negative political lesson, but was a chief proponent of its architectural models.
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Lord Darnley had been murdered and the Queen almost immediately married the chief suspect, the Earl of Bothwell.
The company has been led since 2011 by David Pountney as chief executive and artistic director.
The senior German officer, Major Albrecht Lanz, asked to be taken to the island's chief man.
It was this rapid slumming of the area that was a chief catalyst of the University's migration westward.
Throughout the 20th century history of the Royal Canadian Air Force, only two officers held the rank of air chief marshal.
According to Jones, the chief spared his life when he heard Jones speak Welsh, a tongue he understood.
The skeletal remains of an Early Iron Age chief were excavated in Anaikoddai, Jaffna.
Its chief means of defence lies in the foul tasting secretion that is produced by its paratoid glands and other glands on its skin.
The chief use of naval power in his reign was a series of expeditions to the Isles and France.
The buildings were topped with domes, and comprised an upper and a lower story with a total, according to the chief official, of 360 rooms.
Originally, a Pakistani air chief marshal's rank insignia was essentially the same as the RAF insignia.
The following series of extracts provides a snapshot of the chief professional organisations, or peak bodies, and research centres in Australia.
News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
When the chief constable of Devon announced his intention to send the county police into Okehampton in 1857, the police committee rejected them.
Under the leadership of John Calvin, Geneva became the chief international centre of Reformed Protestantism and Latin biblical scholarship.
James Wolfe was appointed as the expedition's Quartermaster General and the Army's chief of staff.
The chief priest of the Naharvali dresses as a woman and that tribe also worships in groves.
The chief centre of the Beneventan chant was Montecassino, one of the first and greatest abbeys of Western monasticism.
Niphon, the chief island, is nine hundred miles long, and one hundred miles in average width.
The Bastarnae easily beat off the attackers, chased them back to their chief town, and besieged them.
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The chief officer and a boat's crew perished while attempting to reach the shore.
She was a better ally than the chief alternative, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had grown up in France and was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.
The British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II, is the chief of state of the United Kingdom.
The Lord Lyon King of Arms is the chief heraldic officer of Scotland and Great Officer of State and a judge in the judiciary of Scotland.
John Appleby, chief economist of the King's Fund claims NHS spending could certainly increase.
Almost all government powers were exercised by their chief officer, the mayor of the palace.
The administrative head and chief executive of the university is its Principal and Vice Chancellor.
The Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court is the chief administrator of the judiciary.
The terms steward, warden and forester appear to be synonymous for the king's chief officer of the royal forest.
A chief might be considered to hold all political power, say by oratory or by example.
Craig Mundie, the software giant's chief technical officer, is not a typical Microsoftie.
One of the chief failings of this species is the susceptibility of the leaves to the attack of the leaf-hopper.
The chief executive of a central bank is usually known as the Governor, President or Chair.
The maiden flight of the Eurofighter prototype took place in Bavaria on 27 March 1994, flown by DASA chief test pilot Peter Weger.
Culley, the engineer in chief of the Post Office telegraph system, who had been dismissing duplex as impractical.
Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and inadequate funding.
Brunel's father, Marc, was the chief engineer, and the project was funded by the Thames Tunnel Company.
Stephenson became famous, and was offered the position of chief engineer for a wide variety of other railways.
His works provided the chief inspiration for French and English comedies of the 17th century AD, and even for modern American comedy.
The heir to the chief was known as the tainistear and was usually the direct male heir.
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Septs are surnames, families or clans that historically, currently or for whatever reason the chief chooses, are associated with that clan.
Shropshire's blazon is erminois, three pile azure, two issuant from the chief and one in base, each charged with a leopard's face.
Constantius II appointed Themistius, a pagan philosopher and teacher, as chief architect of this library building program.
Ahithophel, Absalom's chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected.
The Bengal tiger, clouded leopard, saltwater crocodile, black panther and fishing cat are among the chief predators in the Sundarbans.
The first account says that Llywelyn and his chief minister approached the forces of Edmund Mortimer and Hugh Le Strange after crossing a bridge.
The year 1829 is therefore generally regarded as marking the chief moment of Emancipation in Britain and Ireland.
When Henry decided to annul his marriage to Catherine, John Fisher became her most trusted counsellor and one of her chief supporters.
His chief prose works are a standard publication in seven octavo volumes of the Methodist Book Concern, New York.
The Newcastle University arms are blazoned Azure, a Cross of St Cuthbert Argent, and on a chief of the last a lion passant guardant Gules.
After all, the chief charm is in the fact of being made love to. You are making love to me, aren't you?
The director is the head of LSE and its chief executive officer, responsible for executive management and leadership on academic issues.
Even in other parts of the country mangcorn, and rye, not pure wheat, were the chief products.
Joseph maintained that invention and imagination were the chief qualities of a poet.
Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic for The New York Times, was particularly vocal in his praise.
A friend of her son's bribed a police chief into seizing Gatteschi's papers, including the letters, which were then destroyed.
He was the chief tragedian of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, with a capacious memory for lines and a wide emotional range.
His son, Thomas Chaucer, had an illustrious career, as chief butler to four kings, envoy to France, and Speaker of the House of Commons.
Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister.
He also shows rare sympathy for the chief inspector and his comic domestic life.
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Charles Frederick was the controller, captain Thomas Desaguliers was the chief fire master.
The board of chief investors expected Handel to retire when his contract ended, but Handel immediately looked for another theatre.
Operational management in delegated to the chief executive, Kate Mavor who will begin on 5 May 2015 from the National Trust for Scotland.
In my opinion, the chief requisite for an actor is the ability to do nothing well, which is by no means as easy as it sounds.
Swiftly banned by Paris police chief Jean Chiappe, it was unavailable for fifty years.
After this the orchestra did not appoint a chief conductor for nearly 20 years.
The orchestra was willing to allow the ambitious conductor Albert Coates to put himself forward as chief conductor.
After serving as managing director for 21 years, Clive Gillinson left to become chief executive of Carnegie Hall, New York.
In September 1988 Michael Tilson Thomas succeeded Abbado as chief conductor.
While in Vienna, Fleischmann persuaded Monteux to accept the chief conductorship of the orchestra.
The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
In 1955, Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory sponsored ride aboard the Nortons.
The clubs elect a chairman, chief executive, and board of directors to oversee the daily operations of the league.
A chief steward's duties may overlap with those of the steward's assistant, the chief cook, and other Steward's department crewmembers.
Together with chief designer Gordon Coppuck, McLaren planned to refine the prototype, eventually aiming to produce up to 250 cars per year.
A typical steward's department for a cargo ship is a chief steward, a chief cook and a steward's assistant.
With some variation, the chief mate is most often charged with the duties of cargo mate.
In 1975, Robert Opron was named chief designer and Renault Styling was divided into Interior, Exterior and Advanced Design groups.
The chief manufacturing process in blade fabrication is the layering of plies.
Money, not Prerogative, was the chief Engine of his administration, and he employed it with a success that in a manner disgraced humanity.
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The chief officer of the body was the Lord President of the Council, one of the Great Officers of State.
During the 17th century, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River.
The chief mourners at the service at Hughenden on 26 April were his brother Ralph and nephew Coningsby, to whom Hughenden would eventually pass.
The Reform Act's chief objective was the reduction of the number of nomination boroughs.
The mismarkings were detected during such a cross-check, D. Wilson Ervin, chief risk officer at Credit Suisse, said Tuesday.
Poland has a number of major media outlets, chief among which are the national television channels.
In France, 1758 had been disappointing, and in the wake of this a new chief minister, the Duc de Choiseul, was appointed.
Over time, the organisation's chief officers have been given different titles.
As a result, the majority of the population live in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, surrounding the chief cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
At that time the chief method of determining longitude was by using the reported times of lunar eclipses in different countries.
This has led the police authority to consider the chief constable's position and it was considered to be appropriate to accept his retirement.
The chief towns are Buckley, Connah's Quay, Flint, Hawarden, Holywell, Mold, Queensferry, and Shotton.
The President approves the military doctrine and appoints the defense minister and the chief and other members of the general staff.
The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor General as the Queen's representative.
Their chief mineral product was the red earth, called sinope, which was used by painters.
In 2005 Willie Walsh, managing director of Aer Lingus and a former pilot, became the chief executive officer of British Airways.
In 94 of the 95 counties the Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the county and has jurisdiction over the county as a whole.
In each state, the chief executive is called the governor, who serves as both head of state and head of government.
Indian politicians on the list include Shishir Bajoria from West Bengal and Anurag Kejriwal, former chief of the Delhi Lok Satta Party.
This continued into the 1990s, when Colombia remained the chief exporter of cocaine.
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The Mossack Fonseca documents do not name either prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or his younger brother, Punjab chief minister Shebaz Sharif.
Although he had been instructed by George, Locke hoped to become chief engineer as his contract with Stephenson had expired.
The park is one of the chief refuges in Australia for several species, among them the magpie goose, green pygmy-goose and Burdekin duck.
One of the chief ways to improve precision is to purge the retrieval language of multireferential words.
Laurence MacKenzie, Northern Ireland Water's chief executive, resigned on 5 January 2011 following criticism of his handling of the crisis.
Specifically Methodist means, such as the class meetings, provided his chief examples for these prudential means of grace.
Sargent's contract was not renewed in 1957, although he continued as chief conductor of the Proms until his death ten years later.
The Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff holds the more junior rank of air marshal, and is promoted to air chief marshal on retirement.
Lamer's criminal law background proved an influence on the number of criminal cases heard by the court during his time as chief justice.
Her chief legal complaint was that she had neither been asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty.
Adolphe William Bouguereau is considered a chief example of this stream of art.
I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party.
During his chief conductorship, prestigious foreign conductors and orchestras began to perform regularly at the Proms.
He also appears as the chief bard of the Kingdom of Prydain in the children's novels of Lloyd Alexander which are based on the Welsh Mabinogion.
One of the most prominent roles of the chief executive is to hire and dismiss Scotland national football team managers.
Later I realized that the ignorant man that day was not the chief but myself.
In 63 BC, he ran for election to the post of Pontifex Maximus, chief priest of the Roman state religion.
Westminster had other arms before, which had a chief identical to the chief in the present arms.
Lotus announced on 7 June 2012 the termination of Bahar's employment, and the appointment of Aslam Farikullah as the new chief operating officer.
Since the head of state was the tsar of Russia, it was not clear who the chief executive of Finland was after the revolution.
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In 1295 John, on the urgings of his chief councillors, entered into an alliance with France, the beginning of the Auld Alliance.
The chief Roman contributions to architecture were the arch, vault and the dome.
It depicts stained glass images of the Bruce flanked by his chief men, Christ, and saints associated with Scotland.
The chief magistrate or convener of a burgh, equivalent to a mayor, was called a provost.
So he negotiated by letter under the assumed name John Sinclair with William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief adviser, for English support.
In November Parliament formally recognised Margaret as the chief councillor to the King.
On 28 July 2010, S4C's chief executive Iona Jones left her post without explanation.
An air chief marshal is equivalent to an admiral in the Royal Navy or a general in the British Army or the Royal Marines.
Their official recognition of George III, on the death of Charles Edward Stuart in 1788, removed the chief bar to progress.
The Secretary for Scotland was chief minister in charge of the Scottish Office in the United Kingdom government.
Air chief marshals are sometimes generically considered to be air marshals.
The rank of air chief marshal is immediately senior to the rank of air marshal but subordinate to marshal of the air force.
The command flag for an RAF air chief marshal is defined by the two broad red bands running through the centre of the flag.
For example, the rank that later became air chief marshal would have been air admiral.
They were able to achieve an important triumph against their chief rivals.
Julia Meade assisted Ed as cohostess and chief product seller during and for a while after his Toast of the Town years.
The Russian Federation has replaced its chief marshal ranks with general of the army for both army and air force officers.
Saint Columba is one of the three chief saints of Ireland, after Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid of Kildare.
Most neurologists would start a patient like the chief justice on one of a number of antiseizure drugs, Dr. Miller said.
The party's central staff is headed by the Director of the Party, currently the Lord McInnes of Kilwinning, who serves as its chief executive.
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Work on the change began in 2015 according to BHP's chief external affairs officer.
How will China make good on its promises to be the new global champion in chief for globalization?
All the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
To date all Pakistani air chief marshals have been members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.
He was without authority, as the administrator in chief was without duty to him, for defaults or devastavits during the preceding administration.
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
Thereafter the job of euthing was transferred to the chief medical officer, who it was felt would have less emotional involvement.
The chief courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases.
The mayor is elected by direct popular vote to serve as the chief executive of the city.
Under Charlemagne, the Saxon Wars had as their chief object the conversion and integration of the Saxons into the Frankish empire.
He retired in 2013 and was replaced by Michael Proffitt, who is the eighth chief editor of the dictionary.
The most important constitutional change during the transition from kingdom to republic involved a new form of chief magistrate.
Oscar Niemeyer, a close friend, was the chief architect of most public buildings and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer.
Petter, the chief designer, who left to form a new aircraft division at English Electric that would go on to be very successful.
Dine became Clark's chief heroin courier and recruiter of other couriers, predominately other young women.
The commander in chief with the main force defeated a Vandal fleet near Sicily and landed at Cape Bon.
Its decrees were handed off to the two chief officers of the state, the consuls.
In 1914 the chief pressure group was the Parti colonial, a coalition of 50 organizations with a combined total of 5000 members.
Retiring Commanders of the Sri Lanka Air Force are promoted to the rank of air chief marshal as an out going honour.
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Law enforcement executive managers must be interfacers who communicate with all segments of the agency, from chief deputy to patrol officer.
Their chief task was to see that the laws of the country were obeyed in their area.
With this process complete, in May 1532 More resigned as Lord Chancellor, leaving Cromwell as Henry's chief minister.
The chief evidence against him was the signed and sworn confession of his friend Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham.
Kildare was appointed chief governor in 1524, resuming his dispute with Butler, which had before been in a lull.
Over 1539, the king's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, negotiated a potential alliance with the Duchy of Cleves.
The park is one of Australia's chief refuges for several bird species, including the Burdekin duck and magpie goose.
Charles did not believe the allegations, but ordered his chief minister Lord Danby to investigate.
Although chief advisers Lord Burghley and Archbishop Sandys supported the idea, Elizabeth I did not follow it through.
The College of Pontifices was uppermost body in this hierarchy, and its chief priest, the Pontifex Maximus, was the head of the state religion.
The Clerk of the House is both the House's chief adviser on matters of procedure and chief executive of the House of Commons.
The next day, Lord Churchill, one of James' chief commanders, deserted to William.
But three months later, Stilicho and the chief ministers of his party were treacherously slain on Honorius' orders.
Their chief vehicle for agitation were pamphlets and women's clubs, but the clubs were abolished in October 1793 and their leaders were arrested.
In 1608 Sir Hugh Pollard was named as chief forester in a suit brought before the Court of Exchequer by his deputy William Pincombe.
From 1790 the chief industry in the west of Scotland became textiles, especially the spinning and weaving of cotton.
In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet.
The elected sheriff in each parish is the chief law enforcement officer in the parish.
The chief executive of the Corporation holds the ancient office of Town Clerk of London.
The central plank of France's war against Britain in 1759 was a plan to invade Britain, authored by the French chief minister Duc Choiseul.

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