John Kornblum, ambassador-designate to Germany, was expected to represent Washington at the meeting of political directors.
But the speaker was Dmitri Medvedev (pictured above), successor-designate to Vladimir Putin.
He has a good line to the Russians, but also keeps closely in touch with Richard Holbrooke, the Americans' star Balkan fixer and ambassador-designate to the United Nations.
And although Mr Buttiglione was the only commissioner-designate to be formally rejected by the relevant parliamentary committees, several others made a bad impression and may now also be vulnerable.
Even small companies have to designate staffers to do nothing but handle relations with the government.
Shadwell Estate challenged Breckland Council over its plans to designate land to the north east of Thetford for 5, 000 homes.
Councils were given powers to designate the zones to improve safety in 2009.
When workers spend most of their time on high-priority projects, it's important to designate a time to clear away the cobwebs and resolve any old issues.
All contacts are placed in nonpublic "circles" (for example, "Friends, " "Colleagues" or "Family") and users are asked to designate the circle to share with for every post they make.
If the assembly, which includes his moderate Islamist party, rejects the caretaker government, Jebali said he will ask the country's president "to designate another candidate to form a new government" likely to get the body's approval.
To help families stay aware of their drivers whereabouts , the system will designate up to six circular "fences" around locations where drivers are permitted to travel and will issue alerts when the vehicle enters or exits a fenced area.
One, the ability for me to designate which applications I want to run as background tasks.
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The accounting rules do allow you to designate assets as being held to maturity, or being held in the short-term.
"We should be able to designate one or two centres to concentrate on this work and other centres can provide them with DNA so we can look at greater numbers of people, " Professor Adams told BBC News Online.
It will be available in all 25 U.S. cities where Uber operates, enabling an administrator at a corporate client to designate a set amount of credits to employees who have been verified through their corporate email addresses.
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In a statement, AAJ President Gibson Vance advocated passage of a bill pending in Congress that would require foreign manufacturers to designate a U.S. agent to accept service should they be sued here.
The approval of Culture Minister Linda Fabiani was required to designate the Australian Government and Te Papa Tongarewa as bodies to whom material from the collections could be transferred.
Given their penchant for boldly going where no airline has dared before, here's hoping Malaysia Airlines' next move will be to designate a special zone for drunks and passengers who forgot to take a shower before their flight.
They therefore want the Court to designate homosexuals as a legally protected group like minorities or women and apply to Proposition 8 the highest levels of constitutional protection, called strict or heightened scrutiny.
This is why I have started to designate two days out of the week for meetings and the rest of the time to focus on my core tasks.
Google's "Audio Ads" platform, an extension of AdWords, automates the process considerably, giving customers with an easy way to designate the time, station format, geographic market and demographic audience they are trying to reach and providing them with an "ad creation marketplace" where they can collect bids from ad specialists who can work with them to create their radio spots.
Pursuant to Section 4 of Executive Order 13157, entitled "Other Responsibilities of Federal Agencies, " each federal agency is required to designate a Senior Acquisition Official who will work with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to identify and promote contracting opportunities for women-owned small business (WOSB) firms.
And more advance directives are likely to designate friends as health and financial decisionmakers.
Natural England wants to designate Lodge Hill, in Chattenden, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Designate a person to handle your financial and legal issues by creating a power of attorney.
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The report's findings mean that the District Council will have to designate a formal Air Quality Management Area.
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It requires financial firms to designate compliance officers, develop a training programme and create an independent audit process.
Designate a person to make health care decisions and access medical records by creating a health care proxy.
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In February 2011, the High Court in London overturned Cardiff council's decision to designate the land for nature conservation.
American Congressmen might next seek to designate Pakistan itself as a state sponsor of terrorism, because of the Haqqanis.
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