Sentence examples for permanent presidents from inspiring English sources

Summits and foreign ministers' meetings have their own permanent presidents, as do meetings of euro-zone finance ministers.Cypriot ministers insist that they can do the job as well as anyone else.

It will also set up a new structure for an organization that was created for only 6 states and will soon have 25, with two permanent presidents, one foreign minister, a stronger administrative arm and a Parliament with expanded power to pass more legislation.

In the four years since 1996, there have been two permanent presidents, two interim presidents and one acting president, Dr. Isenberg, whose primary objective was to find a long-term leader who would bring a sense of permanency back to the office of the president and the campus.

Summits are now more humdrum, held in Brussels and chaired by a permanent president, currently Herman Van Rompuy.Belgium's just-concluded presidency was exemplary in its understated running of Europe's ministerial business, helped by the absence of a proper government since June.

Now the leader of the Council Presidency country can still act as president when the permanent president is absent.

The role matters less now there is a permanent president of the European Council.

The idea of a permanent president of the European Council was resisted by many smaller countries.

The board said that it would begin its search for a new permanent president immediately.

The Lisbon treaty aims to streamline decision-making, create a permanent president of the E.U.

European deals are nowadays tied up by the unassuming permanent president of the council, Herman Van Rompuy.

Since the Lisbon treaty created a permanent president of the European Council the role has become less important.