The President pro tempore, who presides over the Senate when the Majority Leader is absent. The phrase pro tempore literally means for the time being in Latin.
Zionism can be used in a number of ways: 1. Zionism as ideology-Zionist ideology holds that the Jews are a people or nation like any other, and should gather together in a single homeland. Zionism was self-consciously the Jewish analogue of Italian and German national liberation movements of the nineteenth century.
The Balfour Declaration was the announcement of the British government's formal support of Zionism in 1917. Orchestrated largely by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, the statement indicated that Britain supported the partitioning of parts of Palestine in order to create a Jewish state and homeland.