Sentences with phrase «as civil servants call»

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.

Not exact matches

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 Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, flayed the statement credited to the former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, that governors should sack civil servants to resolve the irregular salaries payment crisis, describing the call as «absurd».

«I hereby call on President Buhari to restore faith in Nigeria's civil service and its security and military forces by immediately replacing Ibrahim Magu as the acting Chairman of the EFCC and imposing punitive measures on him to deter other civil servants with a similar streak.»

The reasons why Quick raided Green's Commons office nearly nine years ago can be traced back even further, to a day in 2006 when a young civil servant called Christopher Galley, working in Jacqui Smith's Home Office, was allegedly told by Green, then opposition immigration spokesman, to get «as much dirt on the Labour party, the Labour government, as possible».

'' I wont be surprise if our dear governor comes out to categorise us as «Political Doctors» because of this strike just the way he called striking civil servants in the state as Political Civil Servcivil servants in the state as Political Civil Sservants in the state as Political Civil ServCivil ServantsServants.

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).

Blair responded post-1997 by crafting a Presidential Premiership, giving political appointments such as Jonathan Powell and Alistair Campbell the authority to instruct civil servants, and instituting what David Cameron in opposition called «Sofa Government» - in other words, making decisions in meetings unminuted by Whitehall.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has called on the government to explain the payments made to civil servants identified as the «top 25 per cent of performers».

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has called on the government to explain the payments made in July to civil servants identified as the «top 25 per cent of performers».

She is employed by the Department of Transport and as a civil servant is bound not to «call into doubt the impartiality of the civil service,» which, the Daily Mail felt, some of her tweets did.

Thus we have within our midst some civil servants (paid by our tax dollars) who see the world as how it «should» work according to their particular political «suasions (they used to be called «Levellers» in old England).