This orthographic peculiarity is a source of family pride, for it denotes membership in the Norfolk branch of the family — the branch headed by the Earl of Kimberley.
Trade unionists have been at the forefront of Tunisian change; in Egypt the state's co-opted Egyptian Trade Union Federation has ordered its branch heads to suppress protests.
The heads of the four security-intelligence agencies — military intelligence, Air Force intelligence, political security, and the general-intelligence directorate — sent the instructions to the provincial and regional branch heads, who passed them on to local security agents.
The Damascus branch, headed by a businessman close to Mr. Assad, is widely viewed by the opposition as a tool of the state, accused of delivering humanitarian aid disproportionately to pro-Assad areas.
As king, Hassan tried to democratize the Moroccan political system by introducing a new constitution (1962) that provided for a popularly elected legislature while maintaining a strong executive branch headed by the king.
The opposition within the House of Saud is the Sudairi branch, headed by Prince Sultan, now the defense minister (and father of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar, a k a "Mr. Smoothie").
The constitution adopted in 1996 provides for a strong executive branch headed by a president, who was to be elected by universal suffrage for a maximum of two five-year terms; in late 2008, however, the legislature approved a constitutional amendment that abolished the two-term limit.
Mr. Saidi said he jumped out of the way as the vehicle sped off the dirt road and turned right onto a paved road that runs out of the city, with one branch heading west toward Nairobi, Kenya's capital, and the other south toward the Tanzanian border.
The strike, organised by a local union branch headed by Johnson, was in protest at the way Bain Capital had arranged for all the workers to be sacked and then rehired on much worse conditions – less pay, longer hours, no work pension.
