However, Obama mentioned the economic turmoil at the time of the transition, saying that was a reason he especially appreciated Bush's efforts to help make it as smooth as possible.
The Church is at the brink of its own transition at the top that could have an enormous impact on its future vitality and direction.
It also said "great uncertainty" remained over the planned transition at the end of the year from Cert (Carbon Emission Reduction Target) to the UK government's "Green Deal" - a scheme which aims to improve the energy efficiency of homes by eliminating the need for householders to pay upfront for efficiency measures.
Mr Abolfotoh has also profited from the decision in January by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and an important figurehead for Egyptian liberals, to drop out of the race in protest at the army's handling of the transition.
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Behnken has inherited the position at a time of transition for the astronaut corps, as NASA looks beyond its retired space shuttle program toward hiring U.S. companies to fly its crews on private spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The subjects of her portraits are almost always in a state of transition, at some uneasy stage in the process of self-discovery and self-realization.
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When they arrived back at the cottage, they could still see each other clearly, but the light was at its moment of transition, and, as soon as they went inside, the night outside the windows appeared perfectly dark.
Yet a child in the last grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
At the heart of this transition is a technology called HTML5, which is the next-generation web language that is a part of many mobile app and content developers roadmaps today.
"By making ioScale available to growing webscale and emerging cloud companies, Fusion-io is at the forefront of the transition to the all-flash hyperscale datacenter, powered by open software defined solutions, " said David Flynn, Fusion-io CEO and Chairman.
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And it really marks the end of the major assembly of at least the U.S. orbiting segment to -- as we transition into full utilization of this magnificent orbiting laboratory.
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He tried the same at Sears, starving the stores of cash during transition efforts.
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"It is not something to be undertaken once a government is in place, but is at the heart of the political transition, " he said.
The book explores at some length the implications of this claim for the transition economies of Eastern Europe and, especially, for the former Soviet Union.
The leaders were taking part in a session called Africa: From Transition to Transformation, at the annual gathering of economic, business and political leaders at the ski resort of Davos in Switzerland.
He also takes with him decades of institutional knowledge at a time of transition for the department, which could get different top leadership after the city elects a new mayor this year.
But the point that I was making at the top is that the substantial role that the United States played at the beginning, because of its unique capacities, has ended, the transition has taken place, in days, not weeks.
Industrial countries certainly could do more to lower their trade barriers, but they have generally followed the schedule of reforms negotiated in the Uruguay Round (which admittedly phase out most textile quotas only at the end of a ten-year transition period).
The shadow system enables an orderly transition of power in the event that fortunes shift at a general election.
Ten years ago I was in a transition, and starting college at the age of 38.
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It also, just as importantly, represents a break from the recent past, setting up the first orderly transition of power at Ford in more than a decade.
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They also reviewed the ongoing discussions at NATO about the transition that will take place regarding command and control efforts and the enforcement of a no-fly zone.
The turmoil of the past few months has, in many countries, come at a time of political transition, and has brought reform closer.
After the fighting season, in conjunction with all our allies, we will continue to look at how do we effectuate this transition in a way that doesn't result in a steep cliff at the end of 2014, but rather is a gradual pace that accommodates the developing capacities of the Afghan national security forces.
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The strategically important region has been the subject of intense negotiations aimed at bringing peaceful transition to Croatian rule.
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (Basic Books, 2010) by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, which documents the transition from firms pushing products and services at customers, to firms learning how to use the power of pull.
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In these meetings, he discussed the current state of transition to Afghan lead and our progress towards meeting the objectives agreed to at the NATO Summit in Chicago earlier this year.
Now, at the beginning of this crisis, when we were in transition, we could have made a decision.
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It would be a natural transition for the band to put community at the core of its business model.
Last week I visited Charlotte, NC to speak at the Gaston Literacy Council luncheon about career transition and the importance of lifelong learning.
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