Mr Yeltsin's sack-the-government tactics smack of a deal provoked by such shadowy figures, who do not want Russia's new capitalists to be held accountable for their actions or their deals to be made transparent.
Mr Livingstone's decision to sack Mr Norris comes after growing tension between the two men over transport plans, especially the mayor's plans to introduce congestion charges for drivers bringing cars into central London.
Benin's qualification under a man Ghana rejected has put the FA's decision to sack him under close scrutiny.
The government is likely to argue that Mr Sharif's attempt to sack General Musharraf endangered the state by undermining the armed forces.
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While the government has apparently agreed to make Justice Chaudhry the chief justice, it is still not known if this will mean a reversal of Gen Musharraf's order to sack him.
President Boris Yelstin's surprise move to sack his entire government could leave him in drastically weakened at home and abroad, according to experts.
There is, for instance, Judy's Book , founded by Andy Sack and Chris DeVore in 2004.
Mr Spears has also been granted permission to sack his daughter's business manager, Howard Grossman.
He is seen carrying a sack that Simpson's lawyers suggested may have contained the glove found at Simpson's estate.
Some of Ms Gillard's ministers had urged her to sack Mr Rudd.
Of course some people would say well voters can sack their MP's at election time, but you'd like them to be able to go further.
Brazil's constitution makes it difficult to sack a policeman.
In a report released in Beijing on Wednesday, the World Bank says it expects the Eurozone will post no growth at all in 2012 and overall developed markets, which at this point just includes Japan and the U.S. in a stumbling potato sack race, growing at just 1.4%.
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Mr Venediktov will stay as editor but the board will be tipped in the state's favour, making it easier to sack him.
Mr Wahid, a moderate Muslim intellectual, may well have realised that the publication of the commission's report would mean he would have to sack General Wiranto.
The IFA president is already on record as saying that he ignored the advice of the association's solicitors when he took the decision to sack Wells.
Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.
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So we then experienced a parade of heroic would-be whistleblowers and sad sack employees whose 401(k)s were now so much confetti.
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The Times's managers insist that they will now have to sack about 10% of its workforce, and only gradually bring other striking workers back on board.
This will give him the right to block nominees with no evident talents for a commissioner's job, and to demote lousy ones once in office. (Next year's constitutional conference might give him the power to sack them outright.) But governments could respond bitterly all the same if the commissioner involved is theirs.
"The final agreement has more loopholes in it than a fisherman's sweater, " fumed Greenpeace oceans policy advisor Karen Sack.
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MPs who have collected names on a petition can put it in a specially-made sack on the back of the Speaker's chair, ready for it to be considered by the government.
The country's new president, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, is trying to sack several senior commanders who are related to his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
This means there is now no hope of the government embarking on the reforms that are so badly needed to change India's rigid labour laws, which make it virtually impossible to sack workers or close uneconomic factories.
The world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, said it would sack strikers who did not attend disciplinary hearings on Tuesday.
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Monegan's backers asserted that Palin had fired him because he refused to sack her ex-brother-in-law, a state police officer who had been involved in a bitter custody dispute with Palin's sister.
How else to explain the sad-sack tone from the leaders of the four biggest U.S. banking companies after their respective earnings announcements in the last week?
The British suggested that it should be made clear that the constitution's Charter of Fundamental Rights would not limit the rights of managers to sack workers.
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkey 's new president, overruled a military-inspired decree permitting the government to sack bureaucrats it considered not secular enough, or too pro-Kurdish.
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