Another powerful figure on the right, Mike Harris, Ontario's premier since 1995, is bowing out this month.
"My father was an extremely powerful figure, and it was difficult not to be crushed by him, " the actor says.
Such is the price of provoking the septuagenarian Noboru Takeshita, a former prime minister who is still the most powerful figure in Japanese politics.
The most notable name not named was the head of the compensation committee during part of Grasso's tenure, who just happens to be a powerful figure in New York Democratic politics.
But our correspondent says the PPP may find Mr Sharif to be an uncomfortably powerful figure to have in opposition at a time when the country lacks a sense of political direction.
Rather than pursue allegations of corruption against Luis Miquilena, the president of the legislative commission and the second-most-powerful figure in the government, the public prosecutor has handed the matter to the Supreme Court.
And that's important for Americans that, you know, you have this big, very powerful figure, moral figure, who's making this very vocal statement about militias, which are perceived to be disrupting and destabilizing Iraq.
Both leaders, the senior-most Republican in the land, third in line, okay, a powerful figure with great authority, sat in a room with the President of the United States and worked out a detailed compromise.
"We need the words of the patient to ring out", said Mr Cameron, announcing a new powerful figure, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals for England, rather like the healthcare equivalent of OFSTED in our schools and colleges.
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It is unknown whether the supposed leader of the Shabab, the 34-year-old Moktar Ali Zubeyr, better known as Godane, or the powerful figure of Moktar Robow, who controls much of the south-central area, is remotely amenable to negotiation.
John Kerry, who now becomes the senior senator from Massachusetts, has been a prominent and politically powerful figure -- a presidential candidate in 2004 -- he has largely stayed out of the limelight and focused his attention on international issues.
The plea from the sport's most powerful figure comes just two days after Britain's ruling Labour party proposed new laws stipulating that supporters' groups must own over 25 per cent of their club and have the option to buy it should they encounter financial difficulties.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
Uncle Sam has not for years been the only, all-powerful outside figure that counted to them, as myth had it.
Thaksin Shinawatra is the most powerful political figure in modern Thai history.
Christine Louise Hohlbaum, who lives near Munich, Germany, says the first lady impresses German women because she is a powerful public figure who doesn't seem threatening.
Bayaz is a villain, more dangerous and powerful than perhaps any other figure in the books.
Gordillo, 68, is a powerful, well-known figure in Mexico, and news of her arrest sent shock waves through the country's political spheres.
Mr. Cuomo's prosecution of Mr. Hevesi, a once-powerful and well-connected figure in state and New York City politics, has the potential to undermine Mr. Paladino's argument against the Democratic attorney general just as it has appeared to gain traction with voters.
Sony stock has experienced some mild drops and a little bit of waffling since the PS4 reveal, and I think that uncertainty comes from the fact that it will be hard to figure out the future for this powerful new hardware until we know how much it costs.
Professor Tim Morris, who heads the program and has studied the way leaders help or hinder innovation within their organization, says he is doubtful about the notion of the "heroic" leader, a charismatic, totemic figure who pulls subordinates along in his or her all-powerful wake.
Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric who heads the Expediency Council and Assembly of Experts, remains an influential figure in Iran.
Powerful words indeed, but I can't recall any documentation that cites this overinflated figure.
It does mean that there are powerful treatments hidden in the way good doctors talk to their patients and that we need to figure out ways to study them.
Mr. Suozzi was something of a transformational figure in Long Island politics when, in 2001, he defeated Nassau's powerful Republican establishment and became the first Democrat to lead the county in three decades.
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