Here is his statement: I have written to Kevin Rudd indicating that I will provide him confidence in the House of Representatives in the event that her Excellency the Governor-General commissions him as Prime Minister.
Dictatorial allcomers must bow before Ugandan president Idi Amin, who styled himself His Excellency, President for Life [sic], Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
So the rules soon changed to first names all round, though ambassadors, at least in public, may be called "Your Excellency" by other diplomats and "Sir" or, particularly if female, "Ambassador" by their own staff.This shift, the biggest in the English politeness code since "thee" and "thou" fell into disuse, has accelerated.
He does not mourn the demise of that world: liberated from court etiquette, he says, he can call someone an "idiot" if he wants, instead of "your excellency".
Mr Odinga called Mr Kibaki "your excellency".
In 1929 Fermi, as Italy's first professor of theoretical physics and a rising star in European science, was named by Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini to his new Accademia d'Italia, a position that included a substantial salary (much larger than that for any ordinary university position), a uniform, and a title ("Excellency").
Worship includes expressions of praise, acknowledgments of the excellency of the divine, communion in the form of prayer, and the use of sacraments or visible objects that signify or represent the invisible sacred beyond them, feelings of joy and of peace expressed often in musical form, and sacrifice or the offering of gifts to the divine or in the name of the divine.
"Your Excellency was a witness to the growing resistance found by our team in important sectors of the government and society," she wrote.
"We ask, your excellency, to not give Israel the honour to host the next Uefa Under-21 Championship," PFF President Jibril Rajoub said.
Known as geonim (plural of gaon, "excellency"), they conducted high courts manned by scholars of graded ranks, and they received financial support from Jewish communities assigned to them by the exilarch.
One man brandished a measuring tape, and explained that they needed His Excellency to remove some of his clothes for a fitting.
