| In October 1936, Franco was appointed generalissimo of Nationalist Spain and head of state. |
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| Gromyko had been one of Gorbachev's supporters and he was kicked upstairs to become head of state. |
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| The tradition of an unelected sovereign head of state is the true heart of the nation, yelp the monarchists. |
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| It is under the nominal rule of a governor general elected by Parliament to represent Queen Elizabeth II of England, the head of state. |
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| First and foremost I would like to commend the head of state for his zero tolerance for waste and corruption. |
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| The embarrassment of having a foreign head of state is compounded by our treatment as second-class subjects. |
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| The president is the ceremonial head of state and is elected by the assembly. |
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| Since then I have described the Queen as our monarch or sovereign, and the governor-general as our head of state. |
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| The head of state, the prime minister, is a member of the majority party in a multiparty system. |
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| The head of state has called for me by name, but I don't have time for him. |
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| However, the resolution was only advisory and did not oblige the head of state to do anything. |
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| And he really enjoyed the glory and grandeur, you know, of being treated like a head of state. |
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| He was the head of state for the ten years prior to the designation as President. |
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| Executive power is vested in a cabinet headed by a president who is head of state and commander in chief. |
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| First, it was a republic with a stadholder as head of state, not a monarchy or empire like almost everywhere else. |
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| As long as the head of state is a president who is faithful to the constitution, fascism is harmless. |
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| Why do we insist on a human sacrifice just so we can cheerfully retain a feudal head of state for us to torment? |
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| The new head of state was officially inaugurated at a ceremony in front of Alexander Nevski Cathedral on Tuesday. |
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| Oman is a sultanate with a sultan as the head of state and head of government. |
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| Because the president is also the head of state, it is harder to take him on, especially in these times. |
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| They all described how the Queen alone could be replaced by a head of state directly elected by the people. |
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| The president is the head of state and is elected by popular vote for a four-year term. |
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| Having some ground rules in legislation provides clear guidance to all parties, while preventing an abuse of power by the head of state. |
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| Windsor would now be under investigation by police and we would begin the process of selecting a proper head of state. |
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| As a statement of defiance, it was more effective than insulting a head of state. |
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| He was one of three men arrested by police for indecent behaviour and insulting the head of state during the celebrations. |
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| The president serves as the head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. |
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| Its also probably worth remembering that we do not vote for a head of state. |
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| The head of state is not the president but the supreme leader, who is chosen from among Shiite clerics. |
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| To complete the codification effort, it is useful to formularise the relationship between the governor and the head of state. |
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| A republic is a form of government where the head of state is not a monarch. |
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| The Queen could face a referendum on her position as head of state if the Liberal Democrats' youth wing gets it way. |
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| The president was the fourth head of state to visit the school in its history. |
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| The difference with the recent demonstration was that it started out by saying no to the head of state. |
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| That in addition to monthly remuneration at the same rate he was paid while head of state. |
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| In 1986, the rebel leader travelled to Washington where he was received like a head of state, meeting the President in the Oval Office. |
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| Members of Congress do not wish to be seen to be challenging the head of state when he says he is acting in furtherance of pressing national interest. |
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| By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power. |
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| Bashar al-Assad is probably the first head of state to have improved his international status by gassing his own people. |
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| But he is a traditionalist and is said to have opposed the constitutional changes which reduced the role of the monarch to that of a ceremonial head of state. |
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| The head of the family and pretender to the throne, Otto von Habsburg, was also promised Muerzsteg Castle, which is today the summer seat of the Austrian head of state. |
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| It has ordered CIA hit squads to assassinate a foreign head of state. |
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| If an aspiring head of state happens to find land that is yet unclaimed, recognition is still highly unlikely. |
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| Yet every year its governor dons full dress uniform, complete with scarlet ostrich-plumed hat, to celebrate the birthday of its head of state, Her Majesty the Queen. |
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| Nicole Kidman stars as Silvia, an interpreter at the United Nations who overhears a conversation that might be a death threat against a visiting African head of state. |
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| If, like me, you'd rather gargle drain cleaner than watch anything to do with our outmoded, obsolete head of state, there are only a few escape routes. |
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| At the same time, European missionaries and technicians were invited to the kingdom as the guests of a powerful and unconquered African head of state. |
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| The head of state is responsible to his people and must obey the law. |
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| A head of state must defend his or her country's sovereignty. |
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| He was, in fact, of average height, but he had an aura like a pope or a head of state. |
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| As the head of state, however, he is given some powers and has a role to play in the workings of government. |
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| Sultan Qaboos is the head of state and also directly controls the foreign affairs and defence portfolios. |
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| It was the first time a Spanish head of state had visited Ceuta in 80 years. |
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| Ghana is a democratic country led by a president who is both head of state and head of the government. |
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| Modern Uruguay is a democratic constitutional republic, with a president who serves as both head of state and head of government. |
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| Executive power is exercised solely by the President, who is head of state and head of government. |
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| The current president is Evo Morales, the first indigenous Bolivian to serve as head of state. |
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| The foreign affairs of Colombia are headed by the President, as head of state, and managed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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| Jamaica is a Commonwealth realm, with Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch and head of state. |
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| Nigeria regained democracy in 1999 when it elected Olusegun Obasanjo, the former military head of state, as the new President of Nigeria. |
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| The Lieutenant Governor represents the Queen of Canada and acts as the province's head of state. |
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| The head of state of Trinidad and Tobago is the President, currently Anthony Carmona. |
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| The appointment was made by the head of state and there were seven commissioners. |
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| The President is head of the executive branch of the federal government, as well as the nation's head of state and head of government. |
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| In each state, the chief executive is called the governor, who serves as both head of state and head of government. |
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| The Solomon Islands and Tuvalu still count the Queen as head of state. |
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| It is sometimes used to render in English other posts of temporary regent, acting for the absent monarchic head of state. |
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| Would we like it in this country if our head of state was a monarch from a far-off distant land, I don't think so. |
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| Thiscase sparked the resignation of the former head of state two years ago. |
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| The small political parties in Macedonia want the head of state to be elected in Parliament. |
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| This means that for two thousand years after Julius Caesar's assassination, there was at least one head of state bearing his name. |
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| Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of the UK as well as monarch of fifteen other independent Commonwealth countries. |
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| The Council reviews and approves all of the Monarch's actions as head of state. |
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| Sixteen Commonwealth realms voluntarily continue to share the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as their head of state. |
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| Between two Commonwealth realms, they represent the head of government rather than the head of state. |
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| In a parliamentary system, the head of state is usually a different person from the head of government. |
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| England again lacked any single head of state during several months of conflict between Fleetwood's party and that of George Monck. |
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| In 1653 Cromwell had been made head of state with the title Lord Protector of the Realm. |
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| In June 1948 George VI relinquished the title Emperor of India, although remaining head of state of the Dominion of India. |
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| The Pope is ex officio head of state of Vatican City, functions dependent on his primordial function as bishop of the diocese of Rome. |
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| A common modern definition of a republic is a government having a head of state who is not a monarch. |
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| The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, in which Queen Margrethe II is the head of state. |
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| The British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II, is the head of state and the sovereign, but not the head of government. |
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| Diplomats were accredited to the king, but the president exercised the internal functions of a head of state. |
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| The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. |
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| Some colonies became Commonwealth realms, retaining the British monarch as their own head of state. |
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| The head of state in the overseas territories is the British monarch, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. |
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| The SNP is in favour of an independent Scotland retaining the Queen as head of state. |
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| In October 2016, she became the longest currently reigning monarch and head of state following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. |
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| The Irish Free State was initially a British dominion like Canada and South Africa with King George V as its head of state. |
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| Beginning with the late 16th century, sultans withdrew from politics and the Grand Vizier became the de facto head of state. |
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| The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented by the Governor of Gibraltar. |
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| In presidential republics or in absolute monarchies, the head of state is also usually the head of government. |
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| In France, the president, the head of state, appoints the prime minister, who is the head of government. |
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| In some cases, the head of state may represent one political party but the majority in the National Assembly is of a different party. |
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| In some cases, the head of state is a figurehead whilst the head of the government leads the ruling party. |
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| In some models the head of state and head of government are one and the same. |
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| The reserve powers of the head of state are sufficient to ensure compliance with some of their wishes. |
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| Under this form of government, called the Westminster system, the Sovereign is head of state and titular head of Her Majesty's Government. |
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| Lastly, the head of state is in turn required to effectuate his executive power only through these responsible ministers. |
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| In a presidential system, the leader of the executive is both the head of state and head of government. |
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| The Constitution of North Korea is ambiguous about which official really is the country's head of state. |
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| Supreme authority over the military belongs to the Federal Council, which is the Swiss collegial head of state. |
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| Qatar is a hereditary monarchy and its head of state is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. |
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| In most countries it is common protocol for a portrait of the head of state to appear in important government buildings. |
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| On the country's national holiday all subjects are invited to the castle of the head of state. |
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| Since the head of state was the tsar of Russia, it was not clear who the chief executive of Finland was after the revolution. |
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| As a Dominion, the Free State was a constitutional monarchy with the British monarch as its head of state. |
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| Whether the Irish head of state from 1936 to 1949 was George VI, or the President, was left unclear. |
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| In Commonwealth realms, letters patent are issued under the prerogative powers of the head of state, as an executive or royal prerogative. |
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| The President is the head of state, and the Prime Minister is the head of government. |
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| In 2008, Dimitris Christofias became the country's first Communist head of state. |
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| Today, Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state, like its neighbour Norway. |
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| Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, became the de facto interim head of state. |
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| Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. |
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| This ensures that officers and enlisted men swear an oath to a politically neutral head of state, and not to a politician. |
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| Currently there are 44 nations in the world with a monarch as head of state. |
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| Moldova is a parliamentary republic with a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. |
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| The former governed Romania from 1990 until 1996 through several coalitions and governments with Ion Iliescu as head of state. |
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| Khrushchev was removed from power by his colleagues in 1964 and was succeeded as head of state by Leonid Brezhnev. |
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| It would be difficult for instance to implead the head of state o f a powerful country like China outside China itself or a former head of state of China. |
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| Apart from Ben Bella, Sadi is alleged to have insulted former head of state Ali Kafi, who ruled Algeria between 1992 and 1994, and national figure Messali Hadj. |
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| He was the first European head of state to have been impeached. |
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| They symbolize the authority of the parliament to discuss matters other than those specified by the head of state, for which ostensibly parliament was summoned. |
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| In particular, the formal constitution often confers wide discretionary powers on the head of state that, in practice, are used only on the advice of the head of government. |
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| A regency followed his death, with Queen Regent Dzeliwe Shongwe being head of state until 1984 when she was removed by the Liqoqo and replaced by Queen Mother Ntfombi Tfwala. |
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| In most cases, when parliament reconvenes for a new legislative session, the head of state, or a representative thereof, will address the legislature in an opening ceremony. |
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| The new head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, declared himself president and commander in chief of the armed forces and of the ruling Supreme Military Council. |
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| Puerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States. |
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| It was in the Italian Peninsula that many of the traditions of modern diplomacy began, such as the presentation of an ambassador's credentials to the head of state. |
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| Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam became the first prime minister of an independent Mauritius with Queen Elizabeth II remaining head of state as Queen of Mauritius. |
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| The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining the British monarch, then and currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state. |
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| However, while the President is both head of state and government, all members of the government are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature. |
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| This failed due to World War I and the fall of the German Empire and so it was a compromise that Finland became a republic with a strong powered head of state. |
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| Both countries are led by prime ministers whilst the directly elected president acts mostly as a ceremonial head of state with some legislative power. |
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| Elizabeth II is the Queen of New Zealand and the head of state. |
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| As head of state, Hitler became Supreme Commander of the armed forces. |
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| The newly created emperor, Wilhelm I, as King of Prussia, had previously been head of state of the strongest state forming part of the new empire. |
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| With Franco's death in November 1975, Juan Carlos succeeded to the position of King of Spain and head of state in accordance with the franquist law. |
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| Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and King Carl XVI Gustaf is the head of state, but the role of the monarch is limited to ceremonial and representative functions. |
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| The president of Iceland is a largely ceremonial head of state and serves as a diplomat, but may veto laws voted by the parliament and put them to a national referendum. |
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| Somalia's foreign relations are handled by the President as the head of state, the Prime Minister as the head of government, and the federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
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| Many of the Prime Minister's executive and legislative powers are actually royal prerogatives which are still formally vested in the Sovereign, who remains the head of state. |
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| Hitler thus became head of state as well as head of government. |
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| In November 1999, a referendum in Australia on the future of the Australian monarchy favoured its retention in preference to an indirectly elected head of state. |
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| In other parliamentary regimes, the head of state is usually the nominal chief executive, though bound by convention to act on the advice of the cabinet. |
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| The Monarch of the Netherlands is the head of state of the Kingdom. |
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| The role of the president as head of state is largely ceremonial. |
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| Between 1649 and 1653, there was no single English head of state, as England was ruled directly by the Rump Parliament during a period known as the Commonwealth of England. |
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| The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland. |
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