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Since he took office in 2002, violence has fallen sharply. As confidence returns, the economy is growing at 8% a year.

As soon as he took office, Mr Abe reinstated the regulatory reform council, which had been disbanded by the previous government.

The NATO agreement is one of the most important foreign policy achievements for Mr. Obama since he took office two years ago.

The Israelis and Palestinians are no closer to a settlement today than when he took office nine months ago.

The largely peaceful protesters called for the resignation of Abhisit Vejjajiva, just five months after he took office.

Mr Singh made administrative reform apriority when he took office in 2004, and he duly set up a commission to lookinto it.

Violence has continued to climb in Mexico despite a crackdown launched by President Felipe Calderon after he took office in 2006.

By the time he took office, China was attracting the largest amount of foreign direct investment of any emerging market country.

Supporters at home and abroad hoped Mr. Hatoyama could begin to chart that course and he took office with popularity above 70%.

When he took office in 2004 the city was heavily indebted, transport links were poor and there was almost no foreign investment.

The deal also underscores the improvement in U. S. Russian relations, which had been at a low point when President Obama took office.

Mr Thaksin took office vowing to run his country like a company, leading voters to hope he would enrich them as well.

But the optimism of Roosevelt was infectious; gradually confidence began to return after he took office.

Mr Singh made administrative reform a priority when he took office in 2004, and he duly set up a commission to look into it.

He took office as an outsider and man of the people.

The final result of a huge win, completely swept away after he took office for all the worry about Zuma.

Tens of thousands of protesters converged on Washington in the largest anti-Obama rally since he took office.

I've just looked back through past issues to see when we stopped calling him Mr da Silva: the answer is when he took office in 2003.

The next President, Garfield's Vice President, was Chester Alan Arthur. When he took office after Garfield's death, everyone was worried.

Thanks to four years of annual economic growth of over 8%, poverty and unemployment have halved since he took office in 2003 (see chart 2).

The president gave an inaugural speech when he took office.

What was surprising about all this was that it has only happened more than two years after Mr Morales took office.

That's why the president says the economy was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month when he took office, but now is gaining jobs.

Mr Kan has slumped to his lowest level of popularity since he took office just over a year ago.

Before he took office in 2002, the country had endured over half the world's kidnappings and its highest murder rate.

For weeks after Mr. Obama took office, Mr. Orszag sat directly across the table from him in the Roosevelt Room.

But a crisis took office, as if someone was in preventing the continue to conduct.

Relations between the two Koreas, which are technically at war, have chilled sharply since Lee took office a year ago.

Brazil's transition to democracy took place well before he took office.

Obama was handed a bag of worms when he took office, courtesy of Bush and company.

China-US relations had a swift, smooth transition after President Obama took office, something unprecedented since the end of the Cold War.

Imagine if that leader changed his mind once he took office.

But others said they suspected it was more than a coincidence that approval was granted right after the new administration took office.

The president's popularity rating has fallen to 36%, its lowest point since he took office.

Recall immediately after he took office of the high-spirited, Sun Wei Zhuangzhiweichou quite some feeling.

If I lost and took office you to handle my this big bad petticoat. How? Or stone three childs don't challenge wager?

Inflation is running at over 30 percent, the homicide rate has more than doubled since he took office, and food shortages abound.

The abuses date from before Mr Abhisit took office last month. But they put him in a tough spot.

I said when I took office that it would take many months to move our economy from recession to recovery and ultimately to prosperity.

When President Obama took office in January of two thousand nine, he had a message for nations hostile to the United States.

He took office in 2007 and established an international tribunal to examine the legitimacy of the country's debt.

Health care, which has been a big push since the president took office, got some attention in the speech.

Obama spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai overnight for the first time since he took office in Washington a month ago.

The idea of Tories wooing visible minority votes would have seemed unlikely before they took office a year ago.

Yet when I took office, there was no way for these nations to approach North Korea with a unified front.

It is the second time for Premier Wen to visit Britain since he took office. Although the visit is short, the agenda is fairly tight.

Geithner's comments come during his visit to Japan, the first since he took office in January.

Kagan was President Obama's second appointment to the nine-member court since he took office 22 months ago.

North Korea has singled out South Korea's president for harsh criticism, for the first time since he took office.

Since the Obama administration took office, it has tripled the number of U. S. civilians in Afghanistan.

It would have been better for all, starting with Ms Lagarde herself, if she took office having prevailed in a genuinely open contest.

He took office as the mayor of the city.

Overall, support for Obama has crept up since he took office in January.

George Washington was a military hero. So was the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, who took office in eighteen twenty-nine.

Obama since he took office, two heads of state have already been held twice face to face formal meeting.

However, Hill told reporters he believes the set-back would be resolved before the next American president took office in January.

Since the Democratic Party of Japan took office last year, it has been pressuring the Bank of Japan to be fiercer in fighting deflation.

The two men, both Democrats, took office promising change at a time of crisis.

By the time Richard Nixon took office in 1969, the think tank was an established, independent source for social policy research.

The vote was the first major test of the coalition government, led by the Conservative Party and Mr. Cameron, since it took office in May.

Before Putin took office, that wasn't the direction the Russian spy services were heading at all -- indeed, it was quite the opposite.

He took office at a most difficult time.

Since he took office in 2003, absolute poverty has dropped markedly.

Relations between the two sides have soured since the current government took office in Seoul.

The housing shortage has worsened every year since he took office in 1999.

Mr. Cameron's coalition government, which took office in May, has set enhancing ties between the two governments as a key objective.

The national debt stood at $11. 3 trillion, more than double what it was when he took office.

He took office at a difficult time.

His popularity rating fell to 36% in March, its lowest since he took office, according to Ifop, a pollster.

All told, by the time I took office the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan approached a trillion dollars.

Premier: China-US relationship got off to a good start after President Obama took office. However, in the past weeks and months, the U.

He felt that he lacked authority to assume responsibility for government actions before he officially took office.

The last day for nominations was February first, less than 2 weeks after the president took office.

Obama will be one of the nation's youngest first ladies after the graceful Jackie Kennedy, who was just 31 when John F. Kennedy took office.

Rato, who took office in June 7, 2004, said he would depart after the IMF's fall meetings in October.

And that's why, since the day I took office, my administration has been taking steps to reform the system.

Since President Obama took office, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have had just three weeks of direct talks.

But when George Bush took office, he declared the North to be part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and Iraq.

All this happened since January, when President Obama took office.

He took office with ambitious goals. He promised to lower the murder rate by 30-50%.

The latest initiatives would bring the total amount of stimulus since Mr Obama took office to well over $1 trillion (see table).

Under Bush, there was a lot of repression and pointed national security directives, which were withdrawn when Obama took office.

Once the Bolsheviks took office, they had to answer for all the promises they made to the women who supported them.

His trip was the first high-level contact between Washington and Pyongyang since President Barack Obama took office in January.

Yet figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank indicate inequality is now higher than when Labour took office.

The Tories' line since has been that, should the treaty come into force before they took office, they would "not let matters rest" .

But they needed to win over Tea Partiers, who claim that they were criticizing Dubya's profligacy long before President Obama took office.

After I took office as mayor of a small Kentucky city, an unfortunate incident precipitated some hateful phone calls to my home.

Like many a president, Mr Obama took office vowing to transcend Washington's tribal politics and neuter the power of special interests.

The China trip, which ends Thursday, will be an important test for Ms. Gillard, who took office in June as a relative foreign policy novice.

When Clinton took office, he offered not an ideological world view in the style of Ronald Reagan, but a hodgepodge of details.

Brown took office released a week from 2011 to 2012 annual budget, plans to slash public spending.

By the time I took office, the war in Afghanistan had entered its seventh year.

When Mr Chu took office, he was said to be infuriated by how slowly the loan-guarantee programme was working.

When my administration took office and began going over Chrysler's books, the future of this great American car company was uncertain.

New Delhi says the trip, the first since a civilian government took office, is an opportunity to "further vitalize" the relationship.

When Obama took office, the climate-change issue had a short-term and a long-term component.

No fewer than 15 MDC MPs have been arrested on dubious charges since the unity government took office.

The program to tighten border controls began two years ago when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition took office.

Before Obama took office, he and his team appeared to know what needed to be done.

Congress met a few weeks after the election, long before Taylor took office. It faced serious problems.

Since I took office, my Administration has taken action to help millions of families stay in their homes.

Mr Bernanke, himself a Republican, took office in 2006 hoping to stay out of political debates.

We've certainly made progress since we were losing 750, 000 jobs per month around the time I took office.

Across the region, concern is rising about the absence of US leadership on trade since Mr Obama took office.

Sturm Ruger has nearly trebled since the Kenyan Communist took office.

Mr Bloomberg took office in 2002 thinking he could run the city much as he had run the media company that bears his name.

Still, the make-up of the team matters less than it did when Mr Obama took office.

Vice president Xi will be the first Chinese leader to visit Japan since Japan's new government took office, which is of great significance.

Then in 2008, the reform-minded lawyer Dmitry Medvedev took office, raising hope among investors that the business climate would improve.

Israel's spies say it never stopped. It may have started again by late 2005, after Iran's fiery president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, took office.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who officially took office this week, released a statement responding to the march.

The fact that teachers' starting pay is up on average by 43% since Mr Bloomberg took office may have helped.

WHEN Najib Razak took office last April as Malaysia's prime minister, the timing could hardly have been worse.

It was achieved in secret talks the parties held in Oslo, which we were informed of shortly before I took office.

When I took office, America had free trade agreements in force with only three countries, none of them in Asia.

And on Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since I took office.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in that year, a Democratic Congress followed his lead in passing a sweeping legislative program.

The explanation for this defeat is straightforward. Unemployment is worse than when Mr Obama took office.

This was their first meeting since President Medvedev took office, earlier this year.

Their discussions marked the highest level meeting between Russia and the United States since President Obama took office last month.

Lincoln took office just months after seven Southern states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.

Shortly afterwards, a government of national unity (known jokingly as the Gnu) took office.

Soon after this government took office, the Asian financial crisis struck, and world economic growth stagnated.

But the truth is the recovery in the four years after Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933 was incredibly rapid.

The Evil Ones are continuing to destroy the lives of those they swore to defend and protect when they took office.

February 2003, after President Roh Moo-hyun took office, Ban Ki-moon as foreign policy adviser to the President.

According to a new poll, 51 percent of Americans feel that their lives were better two years ago before President Obama took office.

Since he took office, the trade deficit has increased 13. 5 times and foreign debts 3. 8 times.

Beer remains the favoured libation, though the percentage of wine-drinkers has increased since Mr Obama took office.

The first woman to be president of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga took office last Thursday after being elected by the Kosovo Assembly.

Then came defeat, and I took office at a moment of darkest outlook and at a most difficult crisis.

During the two years since I took office I have tried to stay committed to progress.

Li expressed welcome to Rice's visit to China shortly after she took office as the US Secretary of Sate.

Harper and Obama have met several times since Obama took office and after one chat, Obama said: "I always take tips from Canada"

Katharine Jefferts Schori took office Saturday in ceremonies of the Washington National Cathedral.

China-US relations got off to a good start after President Obama took office.

Shortly after I took office, I discussed prospects for polio eradication in a meeting with Regional Directors.

In the weeks just before President Obama took office, his economic advisers made a mistake.

The outgoing interim prime minister, Surayud Chulanont, took office vowing to right Mr Thaksin's wrongs.

Cows flowers that day, took office to the love of the male Min stiffed flow educated rabbit a run.

This is the first trade complaint that the United States has lodged against China since U. S. President Barack Obama took office.

After Mr Barrow's new government took office in February 2008, it sought to set aside these agreements.

Fifty-thousand Africans were on antiretroviral drugs when President Bush took office.

He predicted that rapid spending cuts would choke off the economic recovery that was under way when the chancellor took office in 2010.

To this end, Dr Mahathir, who took office in 1981, resorted to increasingly ruthless and authoritarian methods.

When Dilma Rousseff took office in Brazil early this year, the diplomatic community held its breath.

When President Lincoln took office, the Union faced imminent dissolution.

The new president, Dwight Eisenhower, took office in January, nineteen fifty-three.

My aim when I took office was to make sure our resources were used responsibly and effectively.

The visit, if confirmed, will mark the first overseas trip by Park, the country's first female president who took office last month.

Eight years ago, when Lula first took office, that statement would have sounded like hyperbole.

When Mr Cowen took office, half of Ireland's voters were satisfied with his government.

The "core issues" are certainly no closer to being settled than when Mr Obama took office in January.

Economic conditions, though, kept deteriorating until Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933.

A prime example is Hungary, where Viktor Orban's government has attracted a blaze of outside criticism since it took office in May 2010.

The stock market, a barometer of business confidence, has plummeted 20 percent in the six weeks since President Obama took office.

By 1993, when Bill Clinton took office and actively engaged with Boris Yeltsin, the crucial window of opportunity had closed.

The murder-free day was the first recorded since Funes took office in June 2009.

Such expanded powers were bestowed on the presidency by Gen. Musharraf, who took office following a 1999 military coup.

We are moving in the right direction. Our economy is in better shape today than it was when I took office.

When I took office, I was determined to set our relationship on a sturdy, principled footing.

When I took office, according to federal government statistics our energy conservation program was the worst in the country.

After a comfortable election victory, Mr Ma took office 15 months ago with promises to focus on the economy and improve ties with China.

Obama took office and to relax the Cuban American Cuban-American travel to Cuba and remittances to Cuba and other restrictions.

When National took office there were 8786 young people on the unemployment benefit. There's now double that number.

Mr. Hu took office in 1980, two years after the start of economic reforms.

Thomas Jefferson took office as America's first secretary of state.

He succeeds Chung Un-chan, an economist and former university president, who took office 11 months ago.

More than 2m jobs have been lost since Mr Obama took office, against the 150, 000 created or saved by stimulus spending.

In 2008, a conservative administration took office in Seoul and halted most humanitarian aid, pending de-nuclearization.

Sheng took office last week to replace Liu Zhijun, who was ousted for "severe violation of discipline. "

This is the first time since Obama took office the U. S. Oval Office speech, after he just finished the fourth hit a two-day trip.

When Barack Obama took office he promptly overturned the ban.

There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when Mr. Obama took office.

Someone asked me: "The new government took office to brush their own highlights? "

Parliament approved the nominations and the three new members immediately took office.

The rage of the rich has been building ever since Mr. Obama took office.

It is the first since Barack Obama took office, so many see the race as a test of how Americans view his efforts.

Minister to table with smell, and resigned not took office.

President Richard Maclaurin sought to move the campus to a new location when he took office in 1909.

When Mr. Bush took office on Jan. 20, 2001, the tech-stock bubble had burst and the nation was on the cusp of recession.

When President Reagan took office, the national debt was $1 trillion.

Obama, who took office in January, is the first black U. S. president.

Walker, who took office last month, has made the bill a top priority. He urged the group to return and called the boycott a "stunt. "

Before then, he served as deputy finance minister from September 2009 when the DPJ took office.

The new administration took office on March 4th, and the Special Session was convened the following week.

The unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level since I took office.

That is why, since we took office, my administration has made an historic commitment to promote clean energy technology.

There have been some squalls in the bilateral relationship since the Democratic Party of Japan took office last year.

Mr Obama took office on a wave of goodwill.

It is also the second under President Dilma Rousseff and central bank head Alexandre Tombini, both of whom took office in January.

But as soon as Mr Kamei took office in September, he signalled a halt to privatisation.

The college-enrollment rate had already risen to 67 percent, almost 10 percent higher than when I took office.

Yet when I took office, our relations with many free nations in Asia were strained.

The country's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was elected in 2005 and took office in January 2006.

France's Sarkozy, who took office in 2007, is a self-proclaimed Americanophile.

This is the very first overseas visit of the Chinese President since China? s new central leadership took office.

In this way, the speaker took office, stood before the microphone center stage.

Took office in 2009 to the present, his leadership has entered the third year, to seek re-election as his most urgent task.

Mr. Maliki, a Shia, took office in 2006 with al-Sadr's support.

Nagin, a former business man, took office in 2002.

As a result, the deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office.

About $1. 2 trillion in fiscal stimulus has been injected since Mr Obama took office.

When I took office at the start of last year, I called for a return to primary health care as an approach to strengthening health systems.

The state was deluged in winter ice storms when I took office.

and it underscores the seriousness of the economic crisis that my administration found when we took office.

Now, even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we'll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office.

The first heroic phase began when Roosevelt took office on March 4 1933.

Even so, when I took office, the situation remained dire.

Inflation, below 5% when Mr Redrado took office in 2004, may now be 15%.

That spending tops more than $810, 000 in all since Perry took office in 2001.

We saw that under Bill Clinton, and we saw it again as soon as Mr. Obama took office.

The drawdown will bring the American force in Iraq to 50, 000 troops by Aug. 31, down from 144, 000 when Mr. Obama took office.

Less than six weeks after Mr Kan took office, the odds of yet another leadership crisis have just shortened dramatically.

Neil L. Rudenstine took office as Harvard's 26th president in 1991.

But on domestic policy, she should work well with the centre-right coalition government that took office last year.

We're gaining private sector jobs each month instead of losing 800, 000, as we did the month I took office.

But since Pope Benedict took office last year, the Vatican's attitude has become fractionally, but unmistakably, less emollient.

Congress passed a big stimulus bill shortly after the president took office last year.

Mr Liu, who took office last year, will lead 81 officials to resign on Thursday.

That was true last week, that was true last year, that was true the day I took office.

That was true last year. That was true the day I took office.

Tanaka took office after a positive start four things: to help tide over the financial crisis of the bourgeoisie;

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