Sentences with phrase «as junior»

In other words, the IDC bloc was critical in giving the lead role in the Senate to Long Island Republican Dean Skelos, though Klein served as the junior partner in the chamber's governing coalition.

A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.

First elected in Redditch in 1997 — always a West Midlands swing seat, she plans to defend it in what will be a tough contest — she had served as a junior minister, notably in education, and latterly as Tony Blair's chief whip.

David Axelrod fired back Wednesday at Rep. Mark Kirk, a Republican who is seeking to replace Sen. Roland Burris as the junior Senator from Illinois.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1983, and served as a junior minister under John Major.

Roland Burris is scheduled to be sworn in this afternoon as the junior Senator from Illinois.

Mullin's first diary, A View From the Foothills, charted his life as a junior minister under Blair.

Ed Miliband has accused George Osborne of «hiding away» over the decision to axe a planned 3p hike in fuel duty — as it emerged that he was dining with Tory MPs in Downing Street last night as his junior minister Chloe Smith was struggling on live TV to explain the move.

Gillibrand — the Democrat who replaced Hillary Clinton as the junior senator from New York in 2009 — said that Blake has the «determination, experience and energy» to help rebuild the Democratic Party after the hemorrhaging of the past two election cycles.

Since the formation of the coalition, the government have been handing out non-jobs like sweeties in order to maximise the so - called «Payroll vote» (despite many of these roles — such as junior whips and Higher Education Tsar being unpaid).

«Having entered Iraq as a junior coalition member, Britain was always less interested in seeing the operation through or responding robustly to new challenges,» he wrote.

As a junior Cabinet Office minister, he headed the Policy Unit in the Prime Minister's Office, [17] and also chaired a newly created Conservative Parliamentary advisory board, known as the Prime Minister's Policy Board, consisting of Tory MPs.

The Liberal Democrats faced a crisis of identity and purpose reflecting directly on their role as the junior partner in power.

There is one thing, however, for which sections of the left will never forgive Miliband - as a junior minister, he supported the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and, as foreign secretary, continued to defend the government's subsequent record on Iraq.

As junior justice minister he will have to acquire new knowledge fairly quickly.

Theresa Villiers, Caroline Spelman, Chris Grayling, Andrew Lansley need some time as junior ministers of state so that they have enough experience to be good cabinet members as do Michael Gove & Jeremy Hunt.

Most accounts say Thatcher's experience as a junior Pensions minister and Education Secretary was negligible and affected very little - as PM, she preferred to refer to her time spent as an Opposition spokesman than to her time in government.

Many advocates have pinned their hopes on getting the IDC, whose four members all support GENDA, to use their influence as a junior partner in the governing coalition to wrest an agreement to bring the measure to the floor.

Hill, a former political secretary to prime minister John Major, was said to have tried to resign as a junior education minister in last September's reshuffle but when Cameron apparently failed to notice Hill wanted to leave his post.

Andy Burnham replied that as a junior Health minister he had taken previous legislation on this area through parliament, but he said that Labour did not go far enough in linking social care up with pain management or enshrining in the NHS constitution that patients can choose where they want to die.

He was accompanied to the event grounds by some state officials as well as his junior brother Ibrahim Mahama.

Is it a crime to serve Ghana as junior officer?

As junior doctors walk out of A&E departments across England in the first ever strike to hit emergency care, spare a thought for Jeremy Hunt.

Tory MPs are particularly angry with Mr Gove for suggesting doctors could be given pay rises if Britain votes to leave the EU — on the same day as junior doctors were on strike.

He, in turn, has been replaced as a junior whip by Mark Hendrick.

Other politicians to get the highest honour include Christopher Chope, a rightwing Conservative who was a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Geoffrey Clifton - Brown, who served as a junior whip under William Hague.

In the 1990s, Cutter worked as a junior aide to Mario Cuomo and also worked for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

«As in medicine, a Licence to Practise in teaching should apply to headteachers and not just teachers, as it does to consultants as well as junior doctors.

Instead of an immediate election, it might be possible for Nick Clegg to offer to form a government, with either Labour or the Conservatives as the junior partner.

Rejected an appointment as a government whip in 2001, but joined the government as a junior transport minister between 2005 - 2007 (more information at They work for you)

He said Welsh ministers had found the new Secretary of State «pragmatic and reasonable» to deal with during his time as a junior minister at the Wales Office.

The correct comparison for influence is between Tory - LibDem coalition as junior partner, or supply and confidence deal (leaving aside either alternative outcomes or new electins).

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Nestle, the World's leading nutrition, health and Wellness Company is committed to promoting healthy diets and lifestyle and to support grass roots sports at the basic school level, including the Milo U-13 Champions League and the President Day's Award, as well as the junior championship.

A former PPE - ist, she was previously based at the University of Oxford as Junior Research Fellow in US Politics.

Before arriving in Cambridge he spent ten years in Oxford, first as a student at Queen's — where he read Modern History and Politics (2005 - 8) and obtained his DPhil (2012)-- and then as a junior research fellow at New College.

The View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin is just so accurate about life as a junior minister that it was painful to read at times.

Many current shadow cabinet members would be unable to stomach serving as junior partners in the great Corbynite project.

Under Blair in the Lords he served as a junior MAFF minister for two years and his Westminster Diary Volumes 1 and 2 show not only his old Labour sympathies but his love of the arts and the turf.

As junior doctors stage their second strike this in a row over proposed new contracts, we ask just how tiring it is to work for the NHS.

One of my own forebears served as a junior officer in the Western Suffolk Militia in the middle seventeen hundreds.

Even if it is categorized as a junior - sized pillow, it can effectively provide the comfort and support that is needed by the whole body.

While practicing in the Chicago area, Dr. Kimball helped found the Evanston Hospital Breast Milk Bank, which was taken over as Junior League Project and was soon in touch with the founding mothers of La Leche League International, as one the group's two medical advisors.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology and became involved with athletics at a young age — first as a competitive cross-country skier and later as a junior ski racing coach.

All they know is that as soon as junior got more demanding, Mom got more assertive.

Now as junior, he is back in honors classes but can not still suffers with weekly headaches and issues with executive functioning.

Middle school, which is also known as junior high school, can be an exciting time in a student's life, as well as a difficult time.

He has served as the Junior Fellow College Advisory Council advisor and the ACOG representative to Practicing Physicians Advisory Council National Committee for Quality Assurance.