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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And he has set up a host of unelected bodies, whose members he will appoint for up to four years, to oversee various affairs of state.
Yet Vietnam undermines these efforts by allowing a tiny party elite to meddle in affairs of state, constantly overriding the advice of government technocrats and economic specialists.
How could an untutored, untravelled glover's son from hickville, the argument goes, understand kings and courtiers, affairs of state, philosophy, law, music let alone the noble art of falconry?
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.
He currently devotes his time and energies towards managing South Atlantic Petroleum, a leading indigenous oil exploration and production company he founded, while dabbling in affairs of state once in a while.
The President recently crossed the hundred fundraiser threshold in the 2012 campaign, which is being used to beat up on him for focusing more on his reelection than on the affairs of state.
This is the favoured solution of the establishment's dinosaurs octogenarian newspaper publishers and former prime ministers who think that they should be arranging the affairs of state and who constantly meddle in politics as kingmakers.
We argued that, in addition to the many conflicts of interest between his own businesses and the affairs of state that would arise were he to be elected, he also had a compelling case to answer on a string of grave charges.
"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.
If Turkey wishes to be accepted as a full democracy, it will have to allow those who want more religion in the affairs of state to argue for it, so long as they do so peacefully and democratically just as those who want Kurdish autonomy will have to be allowed to argue for that.
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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.
The three Minister for Railways Mamata Banerjee, Minister of State for External Affairs Ajit Panja and Minister of State for Agriculture Satyanarayana Rao must stick to their decision and not withdraw their resignations or they will lose the goodwill of the poor of India.
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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Largely as a consequence of this state of affairs, Jews are prevented from living in half of the city.
The Israeli occupation of Sinai (and Gaza) in 1956 began the gradual inversion of this state of affairs, as it marked the first expansion of Israel beyond its original borders, with all the subsequent criticisms of its occupation of Arab or Palestinian land.
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.
The Center for Security Policy believes that this is no time for the State Department to be imposing a party line on either its public or its confidential treatments of the current state of affairs in the Soviet Union.
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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.
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