The partysecretarywas accused of participating in the planning of the attack (their plan was not to inflict fatal injuries on the villagers).
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A litigious society created an increased need for litigation masters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
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I settled on the executive vice president/chief medical offer and introduced myself to hissecretary.
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Before 1963 there was no full-time manager, administrative duties being handled by asecretaryand volunteers who staffed the headquarters and the clinics.
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Membership was confined to the regional commissioner, rural development officer, zonal rural development officer, regional technical officers and the administrativesecretary.
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With ministers being temporary, this task falls to the permanentsecretary.
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The permanentsecretary, after reviewing both positions, re-introduced the two-tier system.
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It opened the gate. 11 out of 32 permanent secretaries were removed.
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As the party is the core of the leadership, thesecretaryhas more power than you do.
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What happened this year, the provincial secretaries had a lot of discussion, using their lists.
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He looks much better in these borrowed plumes than when dressed as thesecretary.
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In the first model party secretaries dominate the village power structure, that is there are strong party secretaries but weak village chiefs.
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Elected village chiefs increasingly resist partysecretarycontrol over village economic associations, and demand the right to control the village economy.
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The letters and papers he received were preserved by his secretaries and family, not kept by himself for later use.
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The regulations also made provisions for supernumerarysecretarypositions.
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Collocationswithsecretary
secretary
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assistant secretary
I am theassistantsecretary.
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cabinet secretary
Barnet council's cabinet office was established last year and has two "non-political" members of staff—a full-time cabinet adviser and a part-timecabinetsecretary.
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deputy secretary
Only two were smaller craftsmen, and they held the relatively minor office ofdeputysecretaryfor a total of three years.
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