It not uncommon for a head of state to skip a military handover ceremony.
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During his three days in Pyongyang, Kim Dae Jung was accorded honors befitting a head of state.
's Asian operations, Knook can place a phone call and get an audience with a head of state.
It offers freshness, youth and the prospect of a soon-to-be-married prince as a head of state in waiting.
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Not long ago, a Head of State called on the United Nations to establish an International Year on Youth.
Hours earlier, Parliament held a fifth and yet again unsuccessful ballot to choose a head of state.
She has treated Lazaro Gonzalez, the boy's great uncle, with the sort of deference that most politicians reserve for a head of state.
However, his comments prompted a complaint that MSPs were not allowed to debate the issue of a head of state in an independent Scotland.
Isn't there a worthier candidate to address you perhaps a Nobel winner, a head of state or at least someone you vaguely recognize from "Project Runway"?
Most of all, though, Britain, like other parliamentary democracies, needs a head of state in possession of reserve powers to check and balance the government.
"Today Venezuela is practically without a head of state, " she said.
But the rebellion was eventually crushed, and Nigeria has subsequently weathered military coups, the assassination of a head of state and a 20-year economic decline.
On the other hand, many Samoans may not be ready for a head of state who is not drawn from the ranks of top chieftains.
So far, Russians' lingering gloom and discontent hardly seem to be rattling a head of state who many of them think is doing a worthy job in the circumstances.
Opinion polls invariably reveal distaste for the idea of a President Hattersley or Patten, in other words a head of state elected from among retired or second-rank politicians on the German model.
And as Hirohito was the only plausible candidate, he was repositioned as a concerned, avuncular figure, stripped of power and of military titles but endowed with the symbols of a head of state.
"For a head of state to put the onus of security on peaceful demonstrators and not on the security forces is a gross dereliction of duty and a license for abuse, " Sahraoui said on Friday.
Unlike Forbes' Billionaires list, this regional ranking has been broadened to include a head of state, Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and family fortunes like the one belonging to Vanchai Chirathivat and his relatives.
In fact, British law nowhere explicitly states that such immunity extends to a former, as opposed to a serving, head of state (none of the Law Lords disputed that a serving head of state enjoys immunity).
This in itself would be a momentous event, marking the first time in Egypt that a reasonably free presidential election had been held, producing a head of state legitimised by the popular will, albeit in a polarised society.
In becoming the first modern international tribunal to convict a head of state for international crimes committed while in office, the Special Court sent a clear signal that neither rank nor title will shield from justice those who perpetrate the most egregious of crimes.
By engaging with citizens through social media tools, a head of state can better gauge the nature of a movement gathering online, and match it with the appropriate response, according to Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, and author of Children of Jihad.
Even John Howard, the prime minister and a staunch monarchist, grudgingly admits that having a head of state who lives in another country does not quite fit Australia's self-image as a modern democracy, seeking to establish a new role for itself in the Asia-Pacific region.
The argument accepted by the Law Lords who decided against the general in the first judgment will remain compelling: that for the past 50 years the international community has repeatedly declared in a range of treaties that murder and torture were not the proper functions of any public official, including a head of state.
Lord Bingham concluded that a former head of state enjoys immunity as well because one English statute confers on a head of state the same legal protections as those enjoyed by an ambassador, which a second statute spells out as including immunity for official acts during his tenure as an ambassador even after he has left his post.
Mr Blatter's arrival was greeted like that of a minor head of state, as he was given the red carpet treatment in a flurry of flashbulbs and handshakes.
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Traore was appointed in April to lead the long-term transition after ECOWAS mediators managed to form a deal with coup leader Sanogo, stating he will step aside with all the benefits of a former head of state and allow the leaders in Bamako to prepare for elections, as well as find a solution for the north.
Al-Maliki hailed Sarkozy's visit as "historic" because it was the first by a French president and first official visit by a European head of state who had not been a member of the U.S.-led coalition.
This was Africa's first case of a former head of state being arrested in another country for crimes committed during his rule.
Iraq's Central Criminal Court sentenced al-Zaidi to three years in March after he was found guilty of assaulting a foreign head of state on an official visit to Iraq.
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