• He's just passed the four-year mark in his post, following his battlefield promotion on the day Fred Goodwin departed, taking his notorious pension with him.

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  • Perhaps most important to his credentials for the presidency was his promotion to the post of first deputy prime minister in charge of national projects.

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  • They claim the younger Mr Lee's rapid ascent through the ranks of the army to become a brigadier-general by the age of 32 rested purely on merit, as did his promotion to the post of deputy prime minister after only six years in politics.

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  • During the debate, Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski who is chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Promotion of First Past the Post, said that the referendum was a waste of time.

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  • Several years ago, an executive vice president of a cell-phone refurbishment firm rejected a department manager's request for an executive post because he doubted her claim that the promotion would benefit the business.

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  • Mr Zeng is a front-runner for promotion to the Politburo's standing committee as well as to a senior post in the Central Military Commission after this year's congress.

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  • Support the basic sciences and engineering programme and science policy activities in the cluster countries particularly for post-conflict countries, including practical science education in cooperation with the Education sector, promotion of access and retention of women in science and technology education, and research and development of renewable and alternative energies.

    UNESCO: Criteria & Requirements

  • Though psychological trauma, which can eventually lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, became a widely recognized problem after the Vietnam War, the promotion of mental-health counseling for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans has accelerated a trickle-down effect to civilians and first responders.

    WSJ: First Responders Seek Out Counseling as Attitudes Shift

  • Last November, school authorities in Riverside County, California, backed down over plans to post the Ten Commandments in schools, after a civil rights organisation began legal action claiming that the display represented the promotion of religion by the government.

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