In 1744, Abdul Wahhab had made a pact with the then ruler Mohammed bin Saud, allowing his family to run affairs of state while hardline clerics defined the national character.
Until then, it had been thought that women were treated little better than servants, but they actually played key roles in running affairs of state.
He had since delegated the running affairs of the world's biggest oil producer to Crown Prince Abdullah.
As an official of several bar associations, he ran affairs where judges were given Judicial Sunshine Awards -- his own creation.
Instead of running the affairs of a nation of more than 50 million, party officials travel by bus to meetings, and issue statements on cheap, rough paper.
While your mother has dementia she was capable of running her own affairs but occasionally got confused, as she did on her visit to the bank.
Already, a number of towns and cities have declared independence from Gaddafi's regime and have begun in earnest the job of running their daily affairs.
At a NATO summit in Bucharest last year Mr Putin reportedly told President George Bush, "You understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state!"Unlike Georgia or the Baltic states, which had longer traditions of running their own affairs, Ukraine has had little experience of statehood.
It is incapable of running its own affairs as an independent entity.
Our "uniquely American" way of running our corporate affairs cleared the way for a systematic legal looting of companies by a handful of executives who left very little for the millions of people who actually make companies run.
and returned to the democratic practice of running the nation's affairs more or less openly.
