Sentences with phrase «as a civil servant for»

I am a crane mechanic I work as a civil servant for the navy.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked from 1946 to 1979 as a civil servant for the Dutch Postal Service, Schoonhoven rose to artistic prominence as an active and influential member of the international avant garde.

Not exact matches

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

If charities allow themselves to be used as «extra civil servants» by governments, they will signal the death of their organizations, resulting in an unfortunate loss for many communities.

Some charities may think the government link a great deal, but Ms. Arrison suggests they think again: «By accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil society.

When he sought reinstatement as a Parisian civil servant — a job he had despised in younger days — the authorities disqualified him for moral turpitude.

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Gorsuch, as a conservative, is not unwilling to join the government, he has been a civil servant for his whole life.

As it happens, last Spring, the Green Party adopted this policy: Civil servants will be responsible for their actions.

[5] Indeed, in his most recent piece, Roberts claims that «UK civil servants are now said to be presenting ministers with a more binary choice: accept political compromises similar to aspects of the European Economic Area (EEA), or settle for a much more limited trade deal such as the recent EU - Canada free trade agreement (CETA).»

The NLC President, however, expressed shock that rather than call for the sanction of governors who failed to properly utilise their bail - out funds, and creating misery to the people as well as overheating the polity, Okupe would be calling for the «blood of hapless civil servants».

The announcement came as McLoughlin attempted to lay the blame for the Department for Transport's (DfT) fiasco at the door of civil servants - and not his predecessor in the job Justine Greening, now the international development secretary.

Separately, employment minister Priti Patel, another prominent advocate for Brexit, ramped up the criticism of cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood's decision to limit the support civil servants can provide to pro-Brexit ministers, describing it as «unconstitutional».

In subsequent written correspondence with civil servants, the BHA stated that «Our concern is for the government to make absolutely clear that there is no chance it will ever accept [creationist Free School] bids, or allow any state - funded school to teach creationism as science, anywhere in the curriculum, and this is only possible through a change in the law... we would support any adjustment to the model funding agreement to add a statement [to this effect]... Could we request that the next time the [Free School] model funding agreement is reviewed, our desire for this point's inclusion is considered?»

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, as well as his performances in The Elephant Man, 1984, Watership Down and Midnight Express.

He pulls no punches: the Audit Commission (now effectively abolished), the NAO and ministers who seek evidence to support predetermined policies («spray - on evidence», as civil servants call it) are dismissed for closing their minds to the evidence of failed methods or the possibility of different approaches.

While Raynsford is willing to challenge what he sees as some of the big shortcomings of modern government, Substance Not Spin is also peppered with praise for the civil servants he worked alongside.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

Serwotka, the head of the PCS union for civil servants, is among 3,200 people who have been prevented from voting on the grounds of not sharing Labour values, after he signed up as a supporter.

He said it was a «great disappointment» for him as «for six years I have had the incredible privilege of working inside the Whitehall machine with civil servants helping ministers to make decisions».

O'Donnell made the announcement to the Commons justice select committee as he published special guidelines for senior civil servants in the event of a hung parliament.

Just over seven in ten (71 %) of Lib Dem rebellions in the last session were on social policy (broadly defined), such as the various increases and extensions in VAT, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to legal aid and superannuation for civil servants.

The chairman said what the workers were demanding for was their rights as civil servants in accordance with labour laws.

Speaking as the union meets in Brighton for its annual conference, and a day after delegates voted to ballot a quarter of a million civil and public servants for a strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay, Mark said:

I had decided to rather work for government but not inside government so as to enjoy my liberty of self - expression and doing what I like rather than being another subservient civil servant.

When the erstwhile super Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala compelled the termination of my appointment as a civil servant after serving my nation for nearly 20 years, I returned to my hobby of writing.

Noodle had the power of politics behind her, as Duncan and his team (the parliamentary one, I'm assured; civil servants had nothing to do with this party matter) produced a manifesto for her.

Taking France as an example, most statutes stem from what's called a projet de loi, submitted by the government (and therefore drafted by professional civil servants working for a ministry).

In a highly unusual intervention for a civil servant, Treasury permanent secretary Nicholas MacPherson signed and released a public letter to Osborne saying he would «advise strongly against a currency union as currently advocated».

Staff who administer the pensions of 1.5 million existing and retired civil servants have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action as part of a campaign against plans to privatise their work, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

Brussels - based civil servants work at UKREP - effectively a UK embassy in Brussels - as they prepare the groundwork for the PM and ministers when they work and negotiate with the European Union.

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya BellAs organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bellas beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

He said that the council also declared May 22 as work free day for civil servants in honour of the two Catholic priests and 17 parishioners in Ayar - Mbalom in Gwer Local Government Area, who were murdered on April 23.

Liberal Democrat rebels are more likely to have cast dissenting votes on social issues, such as the increase in VAT from 15 % to 17.5 %, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to superannuation for civil servants.

The protest is just the latest headache for RBS which has been in the media spotlight for nearly two weeks now as the fine print of Sir Fred's pension is pored over by lawyers and civil servants.

As a former civil servant and forester, he has sat around EU negotiating tables and knows how to fight for the best deal for Wales.

As I understand it, short money is given to opposition parties for policy work etc because they don't have the same access to Civil Servants as Government PartieAs I understand it, short money is given to opposition parties for policy work etc because they don't have the same access to Civil Servants as Government Partieas Government Parties.

So I want to say thank you to the citizens and pledge to them that I will do what I've always done in every campaign as a candidate or civil servant, I will fight for their interests every day,» Spitzer added.

She seems to be doing pretty much the same job for him now - but as a civil servant.

The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has started a scheme of offering modest rewards - such as shopping vouchers - for DCLG civil servants who come up with innovative, thrifty ideas that saves taxpayers» money.

Godric Smith, the civil servant who gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry about his limited role in the decision to «out» the late Dr David Kelly as a suspected leaker, has been trying to leave Downing Street for much of the year.

The state chairman of CAN, Rev. Akpen Leva, expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance, saying the association had ordered a sit - at - home protest for all private organisations, including artisans, market women, commercial drivers and others, except civil servants, as the seven - day praying and fasting commenced on Monday.

Today a signification portion of Ghana's debts is still sitting on the soil of this great nation as plush houses, luxury vehicles, fat bank balances and assorted fixed assets for a few privileged past and present civil servants, government appointees and crooked businessmen known as «BIG MEN».

Research careers in Spain are also made less attractive to non-EU researchers in particular due to the additional restrictions that apply to their eligibility for permanent contracts, which are traditionally seen as civil servants positions.

Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will hand over his Atlanta - based agency to an acting director, a career civil servant named Anne Schuchat who has been serving as Frieden's principal deputy director.

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

See, e.g., Jeffrey Mervis, An Invisible Hand Behind Plan To Realign U.S. Science Education, 341 Science 338, 339 - 40 (2013)(describing an RMO official as «a good example of how a career civil servant can help shape policy at the White House» and quoting an advocate saying «we should be glad that she uses her powers for good, and not evil»).