It Aso whose largely barren tenure (September 2008-2009) handed the reins of power to the DPJ.
Appointed as protector of his nephew, Edward V, Richard instead assumed the reins of power.
The reins of power have been drawn into the hands of the three Rajapakse brothers.
Most undignified for the man who held the reins of power when Tony Blair was on vacation.
In Bolivia, ties with the FARC have increased since the MAS took over the reins of power.
And she tells us we should give her the reins of power because she tells us the truth.
Mr Garner has already been in Kuwait for weeks, preparing to take over the reins of power in Iraq.
Some speculate that he plans to hand the reins of power one day to his studious, British-educated son, Hun Manet.
The ongoing violence has dimmed hopes for an easing of tensions as Iraq's government struggles to take the reins of power.
Hugo Chavez visited Iran at the end of July, now for the fifth time, since he took the reins of power in Venezuela.
Unfortunately, the system is somewhat complex, despite the roaring election win, and it will be near another month before the new government actually gains the reins of power.
And yet what political will there is to deal with the problem when in opposition, and it's often considerable, drains away once the reins of power are taken up.
After taking over the reins of power at the end of June, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to have a very tough time staying out of his predecessor's shadow.
British political commentators say the chances are slim that Blair will manage to hold onto the reins of power as a lame duck for the next 12 months, as he pledged.
In an effort to stem terrorist acts, Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is asking NATO to help train Iraqi forces as his country takes the reins of power on Wednesday.
With the Republicans now holding the reins of power in Austin, it is unlikely that the state's electoral map will be so friendly to Democrats after the next redistricting in 2001.
Our correspondent says that he is set to take over the reins of power at a time when most Pakistanis are preoccupied by the challenges of daily life amid lengthy power blackouts.
The pretence that he would be allowed to reform a system carefully designed to keep Mr Moi's hands on the reins of power, and on the purse-strings, was gone before he was dismissed.
Almost as painful, once bosses put their firm into insolvency they must usually hand over the reins of power to a court-appointed bankruptcy expert whereas in America managers who bust the firm often stay on.
If Mr Wahid's government can be made to look ineffective, then any soldiers anxious to recover their influence and privileges would soon see to it that their cronies took over the reins of power.
While Gamal Mubarak, the politician son, has never been popular among Egyptians, who believed his father wanted to hand him the reins of power, popular opinion has only recently turned against his businessman brother, Alaa.
Since Correa took the reins of power in 2006, the tendency has been to expand the power of the president via a social justice agenda and subjugate all the branches of government including the judicial power.
While critics accuse him of keeping his grip on all the real reins of power, he has maintained that responsibilities can only be handed over gradually because of the massive corruption and mismanagement of previous civilian governments.
And we all follow the humble, heroic example of our first President, George Washington, who knew that a true test of patriotism is the willingness to freely and graciously pass the reins of power on to somebody else.
Mr. ABBAS MILANI (Co-Director, Iran Democracy Project): Some people would argue that they are very consciously, in a very calculated Machiavellian way, fomenting a crisis in order to use that crisis as an opportunity to seize completely the reins of power.
The exchange highlighted a key difference between the Republican and Democratic races: While John McCain has effectively exploited George W. Bush's status as a party insider, Bradley has been unable to make much of Gore's closeness to the reins of power.
It might seem odd that Republican lawmakers are taking such a bold stance against earmarks--after all, they held the reins of Congressional power for the last 12 years, and presumably most pork spending benefited their districts.
When Hitler came to power, he took the reins of a European state that, like many of its neighbors, had deep anti-Semitic roots.
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Congress certainly has over-delegated power to agencies (In that sense, REINS is really a form of Congressional reform rather than executive reform).
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