He is the nephew of Sharad Pawar, a powerful minister in the federal government, and the leader of the NCP.
Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.
His wife, the powerful Minister of Minerals and Energy, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has rallied to his defence, saying that she and her husband have more important work to do, serving the people of South Africa, rather than wasting time on mudslinging with comrades.
Narendra Modi, the powerful chief minister of Gujarat, a state in west India, wrote to the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, that the ban was anti-farmer.
The finger on the trigger belonged to Josef Lux, the powerful deputy prime minister and leader of the Christian Democrats, the second-biggest party in the coalition.
On June 18th Obert Mpofu, Zimbabwe's powerful and wealthy minister of mines, told a meeting of his country's chamber of commerce that he had got a letter from the Kimberley Process demanding Mr Maguwu's immediate release if Zimbabwe were to be allowed to resume diamond trading.
In return, Mr Lieberman was given the powerful posts of foreign minister and deputy prime minister.
One of the most powerful is Kemaleddin Heydarov, minister of emergencies with a flair for persuading pop stars to sing his compositions.
He believes that moves to create crop boards and give new draconian powers to the agriculture minister are signs of powerful anti-liberalisation forces in Tanzanian society.
It was in fact Mr Blair, and the prime minister's strangely powerful press spokesman, Alastair Campbell, who lopped off his head when they tired of trying to get a straight story out of him about Mr Hinduja.
Bank of Italy director general Fabrizio Saccomanni heads the powerful economy ministry and Emma Bonino is foreign minister.
Such is the price of provoking the septuagenarian Noboru Takeshita, a former prime minister who is still the most powerful figure in Japanese politics.
And Margaret Hodge, a Labour ex-minister, who now chairs the powerful Public Accounts Committee, has sent shudders through Whitehall, by insisting that civil servants must answer to Parliament for waste and inefficiency in government.
"Afghanistan will feel the change that Pakistan now has a strong and popular government, " Sartaj Aziz, a member of the PML (N)'s powerful central executive committee and a former foreign minister during Mr Sharif's second term, told the BBC.
That means it is not beholden to powerful lobbies (though some Italians see the prime minister, who was once an adviser to Goldman Sachs, as a representative of international big business, a charge he vigorously denies).
India's home-affairs minister, L.K. Advani (a powerful hawk), described the attackers as fedayeen but pointed no immediate finger at Pakistan.
He is the son of a powerful politician, Moses Mudamba Mudavadi, who served as a minister under President Daniel arap Moi.
Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979, British labor unions were quite powerful but labor markets were rigid, inflexible and in many ways uncompetitive.
He also has a powerful sponsor, Heizo Takenaka, the economics and financial-services minister.
Benazir Bhutto was famous for being Pakistan's first female prime minister, but she was also the daughter of a powerful political family.
The importance of this national survey has been emphasised in previous years by the Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell - who called it a "powerful tool for student empowerment and institutional improvement".
But there are examples of Pakistani women holding very powerful political positions in the country, such as the late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
If Mr Fischer's support for that line could be proved, said Edmund Stoiber, Bavaria's powerful premier, then he was no longer acceptable as Germany's foreign minister.
It is not the first time the heir apparent of India's powerful Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has spoken about his disinclination to become the prime minister in the event of his party winning the general elections.
Others say he may try to secure his survival in office by arranging some kind of power-sharing agreement with exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, leader of arguably the country's most powerful opposition party.
She nominated Manmohan Singh to the prime minister's post in 2004 but is frequently portrayed as being more powerful than him.
Partly because of perceptions that the International Monetary Fund has become too powerful, governments are now considering a wider role for the BIS. Pakistan Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz says that the BIS could provide daily reports on the trading levels of each currency to give monetary authorities a better grasp of currency market movements.
The Congress party, whose home minister made the decision, has less influence on India's rich and powerful cricket board than some of its rivals.
At first glance, the situation doesn't look good: His political allies have abandoned him, Bangladesh's most powerful garment industry association says he ignored their warnings to shut the building and the prime minister called for his arrest.
First, because HSBC's former chairman, Lord Green, is a minister in David Cameron's government, the opposition Labour party has a powerful interest in shouting loudly and often about what Mr Breuer called the laundering by HSBC of billions of dollars accrued by narcotics' traffickers and others.
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