And the clearer it is that Mr Mbeki can handle the affairs of state, the easier that succession will be.
Thus affairs of state matter, because they bear on all these factors.
The French are not alone in mixing affairs of state and heart.
Members of Parliament increasingly complain that their mailbags are full of letters about broken pavements and wheelie bins rather than affairs of state.
The 1995 Rob Reiner-directed film starred Michael Douglas as a widowed president trying to balance a love affair with Annette Bening with affairs of state.
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Clinton's main argument for recognizing this kind of "temporary immunity" is that a President should not be required to drop affairs of state every time someone decides to sue.
"Folks that have done the mea culpa, have stepped up early and said 'I made a mistake', they are not judged as harshly, " says Robert Watson, professor of American studies and author of Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex and Scandal.
The other five ministries going to Accord bloc members include higher education, culture, minister of state for foreign affairs, minister of state for women's affairs and telecommunications, he said.
Dr. Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Department of State, USA, emphasized the importance of educating young people about tolerance and non-discrimination.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero visited Indonesia and engaged their Indonesian counterparts in wide-ranging strategic dialogues.
Tuesday's State of the Union Address will take advantage of this state of affairs to call for more federal spending.
Bureau of International Organization Affairs, US Department of State (1999).
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Oh casts our current state of affairs as lying somewhere between Analyst 1.0, the state of maturity that the last generation of tools got us to, and Analyst 2.0, the eventual state in which big data will be much easier for a wide group of people to use.
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Time marches on, so we always have to reassess the numbers in light of the new state of affairs.
"In light of the current state of affairs, we decided to make adjustments for the fans' safety, " NFL security chief Jeff Miller told The Associated Press.
Proof of this dismal state of affairs came this week with the publication of a supportive profile of University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer in The Atlantic Monthly written by the magazine's in-house foreign policy guru Robert Kaplan.
Of course we should always act with care when it comes to the internal affairs of a sovereign state.
Meanwhile, Isaac Caton, government-affairs chairman of the state's PA group, said the state's restrictions prompt about half of its graduating PAs to seek jobs elsewhere.
He composed music, wrote passable poetry (always in French), bought Old Masters on the European art market, collected porcelain, patronised architects (who frequently worked from the king's own drawings) and more or less single-handedly conducted the affairs of the Prussian state.
And Netanyahu deserves a large share of the blame for this state of affairs.
The lion's share of responsibility for this dismal state of affairs lies with former president Bush and his administration.
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Some believe that because a denationalization of money is the ideal state of affairs, a monetary Holy Grail, its achievement must be far off in the future.
Although the media - which are openly biased in Livni's favor - have placed most of the blame for this state of affairs on Mofaz, the truth is that Livni has not shied away from backroom deals with influence peddlers selling votes.
If they are to minimize the effects of the continuing loss, this state of affairs will have to change.
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In the public sector, Bill Casey served as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Candidates in turn emphasize specific issues because of what those issues symbolize about the general state of affairs.
Rostow, a former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and former Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and another highly respected co-author of the Center study, observed that America's commitments to its allies must be made clearly, publicly and after explicit public and congressional debate of the implications.
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The Obama Administration credits themselves, and the adoption of comprehensive financial regulatory reform, for this mostly positive state of affairs.
The job description on the ad said Valve was "frustrated" by the lack of innovation in computer hardware and wanted to change that state of affairs.
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