"The prime minister himself told me he was replacing me."

So this year, the ministers replaced their endorsement with a call on all nations to maintain a voluntary ban on nuclear testing.

Konrad Adenauer remained the party's leader until 1963, at which point former minister of economics Ludwig Erhard replaced him.

In August 2001, a new government came to power, and a less aggressive minister, Nabiel Makarim, replaced Mr. Keraf.

The minister of Culture and Information then fired the network's director, Muhammad Al-Tunsy, and replaced him with one of his personal assistants.

His tough interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, replaced the police on the beat with officers from an anti-crime brigade who cover several towns at a time.

The prime minister replaced the king as the head of government and chair of the government council, gaining the power to dissolve parliament.

Christianity and enslaved black ministers slowly replaced African religious survivals and represented another aspect of slave culture which the slaves used to create their own communities.

The new minister, Boris Fyodorov, 40, will replace Aleksandr Pochinok as Russia's top tax collector.

A part-time minister will now replace Mr. Lopez, who decided to hand in his religious credentials.