Benedict, 84, is due to fly to the Cuban capital on Tuesday, and preside over a Mass in Havana's Revolution Plaza on the following day.
Nor is there much evidence that the settlement over which he would like to preside requires the parties in Ulster to abandon finally any long-held aspirations that are in conflict with an aspiration of the other side.
Norway's ruling Labour Party risks losing power in next month's parliamentary election (see article), and in Sweden and Denmark social democrats preside over minority governments that face strong right-of-centre challenges in elections next year.
But he was also set to preside over the deepest recession in the country's history.
Jack is the only budget director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years.
During his first tour at OMB under President Clinton, Jack was the only budget director in history to preside over budget surpluses for three consecutive years.
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And as the only OMB director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years, Jack Lew knows a thing or two about making government work.
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Both Netanyahu's own experience and that of Sharon apparently led the premier to the conclusion that he must preside over a broad coalition in which no single party has the ability to destabilize his government.
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The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says there has been speculation that Mr Qadri may be fishing for a role for the military and the judiciary when it comes to the appointment of an interim government which will preside over elections, due in May.
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That dream is why someone who began by sweeping the floors of his father's Cincinnati bar can preside as speaker of the House in the greatest nation on Earth.
Scott of Westmoreland County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, to preside over the case.
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On Monday, Mrs Hood will be called upon to preside over one of the most controversial debates in the church's history.
It was not until after the Second World War that another milestone was reached - the first woman was nominated at the beginning of the 1946-7 session to the Chairman's Panel which allowed her to preside over a debate of the whole House in committee, which she did on 31 May 1948.
In this light, Drucker recounted how the German ambassador to London responded in 1906 when he was asked to preside over a diplomatic corps dinner for King Edward VII, a notorious womanizer with an appetite that extended beyond the repast.
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Now high-school coaches in football hotbeds earn boatloads of money and preside over pristine facilities.
Jorge Videla, to call in sick, so that he himself could preside over the Mass and intercede on behalf of the kidnapped priests.
Mrs Hood will preside over the week-long gathering of ministers on the Mound in Edinburgh.
Lillian Ladele was a registrar for Islington Council in London, but lost her job after she refused to preside over civil partnerships.
" Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, who will preside over the Lew festivities, devoted an entire hearing to Ugland House in 2008 and said that businesses maintain legal residences there for reasons that "have a lot to do with tax evasion.
Jodie Foster will preside over the annual awards - dubbed the French equivalent of the Oscars - in Paris on 25 February.
On his two day visit, he is to preside at a beatification ceremony for two Maltese priests and a nun who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries.
While the city's Labour politicians preside over the building of the huge, shiny new Bull Ring shopping precinct in the city centre, Sparkbrook still has some of the country's most run-down estates, as well as some of its highest rates of unemployment.
Baccheschi Berti and his wife, Aurora, preside over one of the more eccentric and thoroughgoing fairy-tale environments you will ever rent a night in.
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