按惯例，这一领导职务的副职总是由女性担任。

By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.

新的议案允许他可以指定自己的副职，避免伊恩长官苦恼的内讧问题。

The new bill would allow him to appoint his own deputies, which may prevent the infighting that plagued Sir Ian.

第二十四条担任师、军、大军区级职务的军官，正职和副职平时任职的最高年限分别为十年。

Article 24 the maximum term of office for commanders and deputy commanders at or equivalent to the level of division, corps, or major military command in peacetime shall be ten years.

联邦安全局-即KGB的接替部门-的领导NikolaiPatrushev被放置到安全委员会的一个闲职上，替代他的是一个年轻的副职。

The head of the Federal Security Bureau, the KGB's successor, Nikolai Patrushev, has been pushed into a sinecure at the Security Council and replaced by a younger deputy.