Sentences with phrase «as a minister gets»

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Sterling is set to enter a volatile period as British Prime Minister Theresa May gets ready to trigger Article 50 and kick off the Brexit process.

There was a time when Levi, a college dropout who got his start as a stockbroker and the son of a B.C. NDP cabinet minister, seemed to have the Midas touch.

President Donald Trump, who has always prided himself on his skills as a dealmaker, bragged on Wednesday about making up facts while seeking to get the better of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in trade talks, according to The Washington Post.

During WWII, Eisenhower said, «In a war such as this, when high command invariably involves a president, a prime minister, six chiefs of staff, and a horde of lesser «planners,» there has got to be a lot of patience — no one person can be a Napoleon or a Caesar.»

Perhaps it is because he's already so close to the ground, but Canada's diminutive finance minister Jim Flaherty has a knack for jamming his head into the sand just as he's about to get slammed in the face with bad news.

He has been forced to operate like a prime minister in a coalition government, pleading for consensus from powerful ministers — such as combustible news head Matt Winkler and terminal boss Tom Secunda — who control resources and decide whether they'll allow anything to get done.

Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who got rich as a technology investor, has called for an «ideas boom» to alleviate the pain of the resource bust.

On the surface, it seems that Zuckerberg had all the right reasons to get to know Lu Wei, a vice minister of propaganda who doubles as the director of the State Internet Information Office.

More impressively, Minister Emerson told CEOs that, as long as they were getting back 80 per cent of their money, it was none of their business what would happen to the rest.

«There's a pretty strong consensus among the premiers and the prime minister that probably the best way to do that is to get in front of as many people as we can to describe how much the relationship with Canadian business actually benefits American business.»

«My job as a prime minister and our job as a government is to bring everyone together and say we're all getting what we want — in that we are moving forward to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time, and that doesn't have to be divisive,» he said.

What Gerstein told the world Saturday afternoon is that the Prime Minister gets to keep his job so long as his message — his policies, stances, decisions — moves Conservative activists to send cheques.

Inasmuch as the optics of employing a nanny with public funds after the UCCB debate might have been a controversy waiting to happen, Trudeau, who makes $ 334,800 as Prime Minister, and the Liberals might have let one get past them.

As B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said earlier this year, «You've got to be careful about having the state intervene to try and regulate pricing, or depress pricing.

De Maistre was also accused of getting Bettencourt to hand over envelopes of cash to members of the conservative former ruling UMP party, such as his friend, Eric Woerth, a former minister and campaign treasurer of Sarkozy's 2007 presidential bid.

Prime Minister Martin will have no trouble getting the attention of China's top leadership when he arrives in late January, but it will take more effort on the part of the Canadian government as a whole to get the Chinese to take Canadian interests more seriously.

In his current role as Infrastructure Minister, he has a big influence over which public projects get funding.

Equally important, he needs to get back to his primary responsibility as a Finance Minister, which is to strengthen the long - term growth performance of the Canadian economy.

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

All who were in the Bible spoke in and by the Holy Spirit in boldness when it came time for them to minister the Word, even as it is with me, also to bring forth my testimony as a witness: I can not fellowship with unbeliever's because all they do is cause division, and Christ is not divided: Therefore; remain as you are: This is the third time I have come to you, and you rejected me for the Word of God: Many did not even know that Jesus spoke the Word of God through Holy Spirit, so how is it that you are to know unless it be given to you to know: My God is Just and He is right, He knows the hearts of man are wicked and have turned from Him: Thank - you all, there are some that did get it: Thank - you Father in Jesus name Alexandria:

The Mormon church got Romney (a descendent of one of the founders of the LDS church) a deferment in 1968 while he served as a «minister» in France.

As a ruthless tirant kills incent people.So I must say if someone here in the USA started to kill people and the government said nothing.Do you think the UK prime minister would say well we have to get a vote first.

After all they pay his salary (as compared to Mormon ministers who DO N't get paid.

He was never listed as a catholic minister and never spent 2 years being a catholic minister or getting a military deferment to go on a ministry to France.

As a Baptist minister, the older I get... the more I study Scripture... the less I know about Scripture and about God... and the more I teach the simple basics: Man is a sinner in need of a Saviour and guide for both this life and the next, «Come.»

As long as you keep getting your information from a tainted source (read a christian minister or catholic priest that spins information for their own benefit), you will continue to look ignorant to facts and the trutAs long as you keep getting your information from a tainted source (read a christian minister or catholic priest that spins information for their own benefit), you will continue to look ignorant to facts and the trutas you keep getting your information from a tainted source (read a christian minister or catholic priest that spins information for their own benefit), you will continue to look ignorant to facts and the truth.

So I Listened to all of his sermons read all of his blogs and than decided to leave my number to see if he would really call as he says on his web site, With in 2 hours I recieved a call and DR. Collins never rushed me off the telephone answered all my questions, And After just that one call you can tell he loves and believes in what he does, He wont be for everyone, Because he does talk about damnation and what it takes to get to heaven, And its not from giving ministers our money > I watched the you tube videos of many and he is just for me, everyone has a choice but in listening to his sermons and reading his blogs and than the telephone call this guy is the real deal.

But I've also got a nagging feeling that something isn't right, that even if homosexuality is a sin, Christians haven't been handling it the way they should... and if it isn't a sin, then we've forever damaged our ability to minister in the world as followers of Christ.

Getting kids to like church is itself an accomplishment, and parents want ministers to succeed at that, Not surprisingly, Smith and Denton describe youth ministers as under great pressure to keep kids entertained.

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

The next Sunday, as the minister was «waxing most eloquently verbose» this little woman got to her feet and hollered out, «Jes» call «im Fether, an» ask «im fer somethin'.»

i love taffy and creflo dollar ministers it has help me in my life as a saint in how to live for god it has open confirmation of gods word unto me if you want to be blessed get ready to be hated on i know that right pastor kept going froward as taffy preach and god will do the rest i think god for the both of you and may he coutiune to bless you and your family.

Do whatever you can to get out of your own boxes — as persons, as minister, as counselor.

Just as any minister needs to realize in a new degree that the ministry he is to get done is to be done largely through other people and in consultation with them, so the ministers in multiple - staff situations need to go even a step further — and realize that the principle applies first among themselves and also to their lay co-workers.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

Finally, I believe that we ministers should recognize that there are some good devices, occasionally used in the church as well as in society, which help to reduce conflict even when reconciling can not get off the ground.

When we get the order backward, the Church comes off as being full of judgmental hypocrites rather than as being moved by thoughtful ministers of love.

And, if I am not mistaken, most American ministers got worked up through their functions, just as I have.

It is not good for any man to receive as many compliments to his face, as many barbs behind his back, as a minister usually gets.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.

I know there are local churches that regard their minister as a hired man, others that regard him as a functionary to be dealt with today but happily gone elsewhere next year, and even some that get his political voting record and his children's marks in school before they issue a call.

As a non-denominational minister, I find this crop of GOP Bible - thumpers is getting down - right frightening.

Perhaps few people will mind the words, but many will emit cries of dismay as the minister turns those words into action by picking up a lucrative part - time job, for instance, or disappearing two days a week to continue a honeymoon with his spouse, or getting into politics because he finds it refreshing, or buying a lot in the woods and building his own house.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

Billy Graham needs to get out of politics, as do other ministers.

As Trans - Pacific Partnership negotiations dragged on in Atlanta last week, New Zealand's trade minister said each country would have to make «ugly compromises» to get a deal done.

As our minister said after the renewal ceremony, «when you guys get married in your twenties, you have no idea what you are sAying i - do to.»

Groups such as Clean Up Australia have long campaigned for plastic bags to be banned «forever,» and in March last year hopes were buoyed when federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he was prepared to use the «bully pulpit» of government to «get rid of» plastic bags.