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  • Brian McMahon, executive director of the state council.

    Jobs Agencies Not Up to Job 2010

  • The state council, China's cabinet, has dispatched a team to co-ordinate the relief effort.

    China devastated by floods Jonathan Watts in Beijing 2010

  • A statement issued by the presidency of the state council said a

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • After ousting Mauritania's first democratically-elected president, the junta leader formed a state council comprised of 11 military officials and promised to hold elections quickly.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • After ousting Mauritania's first democratically-elected president, the junta leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, formed a state council comprised of 11 military officials and promised to hold elections quickly.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Everybody in the country from minister of justice to the state council for law, the highest authority, should have an input.

    CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2003 2003

  • Mintaka was to attend an extraordinary session of the state council.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • 'Your Sacred Majesty Pharaoh Trok Uruk, Queen Mintaka Apepi Uruk, distinguished members of the state council, citizens of Avaris, brothers and fellow countrymen of this reunited Egypt, I bring tragic tidings from the south.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • The Central Executive Committee of the GMD promulgated a temporary organic law that provided for a state council headed by the president (also the highest military authority), heading five administrative divisions (yuan): executive, legislative, judicial, civil service, and censorial.

    1928, Jan 2001

  • President Jiang Zemin met Wednesday with Alhaji Kromah, vice chairman of Liberia's ruling state council, and praised Monrovia for its 1993 formal recognition of China instead of Taiwan, Xinhua reported.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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