When asked last year about the rules of engagement for tear gas, he told the BBC that police in America are trained not to fire head-high and to either arc the canister into the air or roll it on the ground.
In Latvia the prime minister tried to fire the head of his country's anticorruption agency until a public outcry stayed his hand.
However the mayor cannot hire or fire the head of the Metropolitan Police - he or she continues to be a Royal appointment on the advice of the home secretary.
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In yet another case, the central bank's governor, Syahril Sabirin, has just been sentenced to three years over a scandal in 1999 at Bank Bali, but is still refusing to resign, hiding behind a law that makes it virtually impossible to fire any head of the central bank.
Amazon is anticipated to introduce a Kindle Fire to compete head-on with the iPad by introducing a larger-screen tablet.
Our fire trucks were not even able to keep up with the head of the fire, because we've never had one move that fast.
The fire service's head of operations, Mahbubur Rahman, said the rescue effort was becoming increasingly difficult for emergency workers as survivors were losing their strength to call for help.
It felt like I'd been hit over the head with a fire extinguisher.
His citation hails his "repeated courage at pivotal moments" saying his "cool head under fierce fire inspired his men to succeed when the odds were most against them".
Ben Philpotts was found with head injuries after a fire at the family home in Trevarrian, Newquay, in January 2010.
The 33-year-old head of a Spanish fire fighting unit has been accused of setting about 15 fires in the Galicia region.
On Aug. 20, through the din of chainsaws, they could hear their fire lookouts yelling for them to head to the safety zone.
The four-strong Liberal Democrat group, more attuned to exercising power through coalition, gave it a day and a half before Lord Tope turned down the invitation to head the authority's fire and civil defence committee - seen by some as the equivalent of being paper clips monitor.
The Ascania was carrying highly-volatile vinyl acetate when it caught fire and began drifting towards rocks at Dunnet Head on the Caithness coast in March 1999.
Late Wednesday, Bank of America announced some of its plans: It will fire 3, 000 employees and replace the head of its investment bank, Gene Taylor, with Brian Moynihan, who has headed up investment management at the bank since 2004.
"The Note 8 marks Samsung's relentless charge to grab a slice of the tablet market from Apple, but also to defend itself from the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7, " Ben Wood, head of research at CCS Insight, told the BBC.
The Nook Tablet will go head-to-head with market leader Amazon, whose Kindle Fire tablet goes on sale later this month, along with Apple's iPad.
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Colin Baige, head of operational delivery at Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said very few calls triggered by automatic alarms tended to be fires.
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"The failure rate was higher than predicted as part of the certification process and the possibility that a short circuit in a single cell could propagate to adjacent cells and result in smoke and fire must be reconsidered, " said Deborah Hersman, the head of NTSB.
Under the proposals three Plymouth fire engines, at Plympton, Plymstock, and Camel's Head, would be crewed on call rather than full-time.
Now, grab yourself a cup of eggnog, relax in front of the fire and fall asleep with dreams of robust ROIs dancing in your head.
Rapid Fire is the same concept, but pits you against an opponent, while Head-to-Head connects two baskets for full court-style play.
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The inquest in Cardiff head that nearby Freshwater West beach may have been sprayed with machine gun fire.
Told the university was going to fire her, Kearney -- the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas -- resigned.
Told the university was going to fire her, Kearney -- the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas -- resigned Saturday.
Esprit ("Sons of Anarchy") will join her in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, " playing the small supporting role of Romulus Thread, the ruthless new head Peacekeeper for District 12.
He raced clear to fire under Valdes with 21 minutes left - and Cesc Fabregas turned logic on its head, given the evidence of the previous 85 minutes, by scoring from the spot after he was brought down by Barcelona captain Carles Puyol.
Most of the victims had lacerations in their head and neck areas, said Robert Rasa, a spokesman for the CyFair Volunteer Fire Department.
Fire crews were called to the blaze at The Lodge at Great Finches Farm, near the Dukes Head roundabout at 00:45 BST on Saturday.
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