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This week, Mr. Rumsfeld announced that the Army's deputy chief of staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., had been nominated to replace General Sanchez, whose Iraq tour ends this summer.

Four candidates have been nominated to replace him.

Three candidates have been nominated to replace Ms Sturgeon as deputy leader, the MSPs Keith Brown and Angela Constance and the MP Stewart Hosie.

The Marine general who has been nominated to replace him, Joseph F. Dunford Jr., is not scheduled to take up the post until early February and recently told Congress that he had not been part of the planning process.

The pope accepted Thomas O'Brien's resignation.See article: The Catholic church in troubleAn Arabic-speaking general has been nominated to replace General Tommy Franks as head of America's Central Command.

Mr. Rabner, 46, a former federal prosecutor who has served as Gov. Jon S. Corzine's chief counsel since January, has been nominated to replace Zulima V. Farber, who resigned in August after an independent review found she had broken ethics rules by intervening in a traffic stop involving her companion.

The surveillance Comey and his colleagues – including Mueller, the FBI director he is nominated to replace – objected to had merely been paused and rerouted under a new legal basis.

The recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has prompted a vigorous debate over the type of justice who should be nominated to replace him.

Many investors expected that Ms. Yellen would be nominated to replace Ben S. Bernanke as head of the central bank, a choice that would have sent a clear message of continuity.

The executive committee voted that Corrente be nominated to replace him.

In July , 1974 Herbert Stein, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, resigned, and Greenspan was nominated to replace him.