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.
Do we really want to kick that particular anthill, as we take office?
That problem still confronts the re-elected president and the new Senate and House when they take office in January.
With a new president due to take office in South Korea next month, some analysts saw signs of conciliation.
The president-elect, who plans to take office around May 17, seems to be on the right track so far.
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.
The constitution for the first time sets a two-term limit for the president who will be take office after the election.
With a new president of France set to take office on May 16, the reign of another comes to a close.
From a political perspective, the best time for a new president to take office is either during or immediately after a recession.
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But my ambition is clear: to lead a modern, bold and dynamic party, trusted by the electorate, ready to take office again.
But Mr Prodi can take office only when his full commission does.
Initially after the tragedy in 1972, Biden was reluctant to take office.
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.
In January 2009, nearly seven in 10 Americans questioned in a CNN survey said they were thrilled or happy that Obama was about to take office.
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.
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