Sentences with phrase «as a minister»

He previously held a junior cabinet role, as minister of state for small business and tourism.

He also served as a minister for agriculture, fisheries and food, the north - east, and work and pensions.

She served as minister for health and community care from 1999 to 2001, when she was just 35, and survived opposition criticism for her handling of the flu crisis in 2000.

Few people in the community occupy so favorable a position as the minister in terms of opportunities to aid in education about alcoholism.

There are in fact almost no formal requirements for being elected as chancellor or being appointed as minister.

If this bank is as good as ministers claim it will be, they should give it the backing it deserves and vastly increase its funds.

As I began my new role as minister for disabled people, health and work, I was surprised to learn that around one in six working aged adults report having a disability.

But they will not enjoy contracts from the government or be allowed to contest for national offices or be considered for appointment as ministers.

I have concluded that it would be distracting both to my trial defence and to my official duties if I were to continue in office as a minister.

According to him, close to 70 ministers who serve as ministers at the same time as MPs work without salary.

She has a part - time job as a minister's wife.

His comments come as ministers revealed 75 buildings in 26 councils had failed fire safety tests - a 100 % failure rate so far.

During her tenure as minister, she was no stranger to criticism.

In this capacity, the theologian is acting as minister, or as the scholarly aid to the minister.

We would be more than happy to keep them on as ministers if their back - bench colleagues were foolish enough to press the point.

Even as ministers, it matters that these persons be what they are.

Only then will the church be free to join the attack on those underlying causes as it ministers to the immediate victims.

It is usually the case that the man most given to his mission as minister is also the man who is most conscious of his need for more time in his study.

And as a minister gets older — with children to put through college and retirement to plan for — it becomes even more practical.

More commonly, perhaps, people attempt to form churches or to become recognized as ministers of churches in order to avoid taxes, whether on property or income.

The educational phase should begin in the second half of the first interview or as soon as the minister is reasonably sure that he is dealing with alcoholism.

As athletes are used as ministers, so do others minister to athletes.

Seems like you would be better suited as a minister.

It is our desire and expectation that these books will be of help to you in developing better working tools as a minister - counselor.

All i can do is laugh and them pray for someone as stupid as these ministers... not really sure i should call them ministers.

Consequently they must spend considerable energy establishing and maintaining their credibility as ministers.

The term simply means fulfilling the dual role of a worker outside the church and as a minister inside the church.

But opinions are moving as the weight of evidence builds, and as ministers hold more meetings and do more listening.

She seems as out of touch as her ministers.

Later he suggested that there was unlikely to be as much price variability between universities as ministers anticipate.

The question of airport expansion in the south - east remains unanswered, as ministers put off coming up with proposals until the autumn.

Or was it, as ministers argue, the result of global economic pressures which are affecting countries all around the world?

But no minister is directly elected as a minister.

And, thank you for stopping by my blog and for your encouragement as I minister to young ladies.

And as a minister in this Crew, you need a ministry, a place of service.

He added that he is always ready to serve as a minister for any political party if he is called upon.

He served as a minister for four times, between 1999 - 2011.

On the charge that the defendant used his office as minister to allocate 15 houses to his associates, the defence told the court that there was a committee set up by the government.

My job as a minister and a comedian are quite similar.

The student is steadily pushed into a decision to function or not to function as a minister.

He has no right to force others to accept much less donate money to his cause as a minister.

However, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye who worked as the Minister under Mahama government has also expressed his interest to contest for the flagbearership slot.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns resigned as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

Denis MacShane (born Denis Matyjaszek, 21 May 1948) is a British former Labour Party [1] politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham from 1994 to his resignation in 2012 and served in the Labour Government as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 until 2005.

Clarke, who attends cabinet as minister without portfolio, questioned whether treaty change could be introduced by 2017 — the prime minister's deadline for a referendum.

She will continue in her role as minister responsible for francophone affairs, with her new position potentially providing greater scope to explore access for justice issues for linguistic minorities.

A retired minister has been honoured in recognition of her efforts to ensure women could be ordained as ministers in the Church of Scotland.