Only later did he find out that Mrs Allen would not take office until September 1st.
If Mr Tsvangirai wins, and is allowed to take office, Zimbabwe's rapid de-industrialisation could be halted.
Nor is a new golden age likely when Ms Merkel and Mr Westerwelle take office.
This of course was the presupposition of the Obama administration as it prepared to take office that January.
Mr Obama will not take office until January 20th, but he can use the next ten weeks well.
He is expected to lead a transitional government, though it was not immediately clear when he will take office.
The new Assistant Directors-General are expected to take office on 1 July 2010.
With a new president due to take office in South Korea next month, some analysts saw signs of conciliation.
Pakistan's elections on May 11 brought to power Nawaz Sharif, who is due to take office as prime minister within days.
Town officials said he couldn't take office due to a local ordinance that bars anyone owing the town money from office.
With a new president of France set to take office on May 16, the reign of another comes to a close.
But Mr Prodi can take office only when his full commission does.
If the court rules he is ineligible to hold office as president the second runner-up will take office instead, as the constitution stipulates.
The idea is to ensure civil servants can help the incoming government to put their policies and plans into action from the day they take office.
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Should Ventura appoint another senator, he or she would serve only briefly because, under state law, whoever is elected on November 5 would take office immediately.
Most of the leading candidates in the American presidential election are more progressive on climate change, but the new president will not take office until January 2009.
Mary Jo White will have her Congressional hearing and if passed will be able to take office by early May 2013 (end of April at the earliest).
Although Presidents Clinton and Bush could afford to campaign one way and govern another in prosperous times, Obama will take office in what could become a once-in-a-lifetime downturn.
Whoever is president of France and prime minister of Britain at that point will therefore have an enormous headache dumped on them as soon as they take office.
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Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president-elect who is set to take office on February 25th, was cleared by a special prosecutor of involvement in a financial fraud in 2001.
In such an atmosphere, Bush will become the first president in more than a century to take office without also winning the largest share of the popular vote.
The Governing Council gave warning that if the American administration let foreigners run Iraq's broadcasting service without consultation, the transitional government due to take office in July would sever the contract.
Ms Groves will take office on Monday, 28 January.
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London's mayor and the 25-seat GLA will first take office in Marsham Street, close to the Houses of Parliament in central London before eventually moving to a new building near Tower Bridge.
This is the first Labour administration to take office since the introduction of the select committees two decades ago, and it is not clear how tolerant of their interference it will be.
Officials are also citing Article 231, which says that if for any reason, the president cannot be sworn in before the National Assembly, the president can take office before the Supreme Court.
"We will do everything possible to return to Mercosur, " the president-elect told reporters, adding that he did not plan to take part in a June meeting, since he will only take office in August.
In January of 2001, as newly elected President George W. Bush prepared to take office, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report outlining its views on the tax revenue and government spending estimates for the remainder of the decade.
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