Sentences with phrase «as minister without»

Halfon, who been a vocal champion of the government's apprenticeship programme, previously served as a minister without portfolio and attended cabinet under David Cameron.

Shore was retained in the Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.

Mandelson — one of the architects of New Labour along with Brown and Tony Blair — joined the government in 1997 as minister without portfolio under Blair, and was promoted to trade and industry secretary the following year.

The Prime Minister has written to Kenneth Clarke saying he will be «hugely missed» around Parliament, after the MP stepped down from his post as Minister Without Portfolio.

Despite no longer being Lord Chancellor, Clarke maintained responsibility for passage of the Justice and Security Act as Minister without portfolio.

He has breached them and he should go as Minister without Portfolio.»

It looks like Clarke is not completely on the way out, however... and just as I write this, Sky News report that Clarke will sit as a minister without portfolio, perhaps with a slight bent towards economic issues.

Halfon, who attends cabinet in his role as minister without portfolio, has confessed his six - month affair to Downing Street and said he feels «ashamed».

Kenneth Clarke's departure as minister without portfolio has redressed the balance somewhat.

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.

In a statement issued by its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, on Saturday, the PDP described Mohammed, who is a Minister - designate, as «a quarrelsome and misguided individual» who will end up as a minister without portfolio in President Muhammadu Buhari's government.

He served as Minister without Portfolio in the Earl of Aberdeen's government after his first terms as PM

Arthur Wellesley - 1st Duke of Wellington1841 - 1846Renowned for his post as Commander of the Allied Army and for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington was Prime Minister of Great Britain twice and later served simultaneously as Minister without Portfolio and Leader of the House of Lords in Robert Peel's second cabinet.

Walpole was himself a Tory, and served, among other posts, as Minister without Portfolio under the Earl of Derby.

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Ideally, it would have the power to defuse risks without first having to seek permission from a politician, just as the Bank of Canada sets the benchmark interest rate without input from finance minister.

In a speech in August, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada's economy is 2.5 per cent larger every year than it would be without NAFTA: «It is as if Canada has been receiving a $ 20 - billion cheque each year since NAFTA was ratified.»

«As Prime Minister Abe has made clear, TPP without the United States is meaningless and the balance of interests would crumble,» he told a news conference, adding Tokyo would keep explaining the benefits of the pact for America.

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sourceAs he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sourceas the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

That April, Alberto Acosta, who was then Ecuador's Minister of Energy and Mines, proposed the initiative as a way for Ecuador to generate money from the ITT without drilling.

As a business community in Metro Vancouver, we will certainly benefit from having Transportation Minister Todd Stone focus on other economically crucial transportation matters without being constantly hounded by Translink - related questions when he's in the Lower Mainland.

Prime Minister Trudeau may have identified the environment as a key priority, but his government can't make up lost ground without the public service.

ATHENS / NEW YORK, MAY 3, 2018 — As the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, visits Lesvos for a regional conference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that thousands of men, women, and children in Lesvos are living in squalid, overcrowded conditions in Moria camp, with insufficient access to health care.

The Minister of Finance has for some time rejected this view without providing his own analysis, It is inconceivable that the Department has not done its own research on the structural deficit, as it does publicly provide estimates on an historical basis.

Moreover, talks appeared to stall over the weekend as major creditors left Athens without the deal they needed for the meeting of European finance ministers on Monday.

These negotiations will take place without David Cameron, who unexpectedly announced early Friday morning that he was stepping down as prime minister.

Without the Prime Minister's personal diplomacy and polishing of Brand Canada, as well as Ms. Freeland's extraordinary efforts, I believe CETA would have failed.

The important thing is to offer help and to raise if necessary the possibility of a drinking problem in such a way as to allow the person to reject the statement without rejecting the minister.

The fact that this authority comes from Christ in no way contradicts a democratic manner of appointing its ministers, nor does it contradict the fact that their decisions are determined by the nature of man as well as by the gospel in such a way that they are not without relation to the will of the Christian people.

As a result of running an experimental course at the University of Chicago for two years, for those preparing for campus ministries, in which we focused on personal service and pastoral care to students, I am convinced that more insight and skill in this area could be of great benefit to campus ministers, most of whom currently perform these functions without special training.

When the Carnegie Foundation inquired as to «whether denominational connection or control ministers to the religious or intellectual life,» the respondents in the denominational colleges declared «almost without exception that such connections played little, if any, part in the religious or intellectual life of the student body.»

It need not accept world suffering merely as evidence of the broken human condition, and therefore opt to minister only to the victims of sin without addressing sin's sources.

In the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he does.

He will not do what so often I have heard done by thoughtless ministers: simply repeat what the text says or attempt to elaborate on it as if it stood entirely by itself without context.

The other is either passed over in silence or without distinction looked upon as the stranger, the foreigner, the pagan, the one who is different, the outsider and the threat, the unbeliever, the one to be ministered to, the object for mission.

As a graduate in religious studies and ordained minister, the bias toward the universal Christian church is not without cause.

From the very beginning of the American experiment with freedom, the churches and ministers have been perceived as providing religious services, without which the experiment could fail.

And yet, increasingly the problem of unbelief is within as well as without the church and to this the minister offers not just reprimand but an honest expression of that very unbelief: «Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.»

Obviously there are also some wonderful and incredible ministers and pastors that adhere to the Bible without preaching hate and serve as a shining example of the good Christianity can do.

Peter Mandelson1997 - 1998After his controversial role as campaign director in the Labour Party's landslide election victory in 1997, Mandelson was appointed Minister without Portfolio to ensure the party operated effectively.

William Francis Deedes - Baron Deedes1962 - 1964Also known as Bill Deedes, he was the only Minister without Portfolio to go on to be an editor of a daily newspaper.

Arthur Henderson1916 - 1917Henderson was Minister without Portfolio in David Lloyd George's five - man War Cabinet and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 for his work as president of the League of Nations» Disarmament Conference in 1932.

It was an end without bitterness or acrimony, as the former prime minister headed off to spend a contented afternoon watching cricket at the Oval.

Unless NHS leaders and ministers can offer firm guarantees on these points, it is impossible to see how an experiment such as this could ever proceed without severely undermining patient care and the public's faith in the NHS.

Defence minister Philip Dunne stated: «As part of the licensing process, the researchers have to convince the Home Office that the work is required, that the results can not be obtained without the use of animals and that every step has been taken to minimise pain and suffering to the animals involved.»

It is considered by some parties as illegitimate, posing a serious danger to Japan's democracy since the Prime Minister circumvented the constitutional amendment procedure, dictating a radical change to the meaning of fundamental principles in the Constitution by way of Cabinet fiat without Diet debate, vote, or public approval.

The government scheme to get the unemployed back to work by working without pay has suffered a further setback as Poundland became the latest firm to demand that ministers rethink the programme.

She survived triumphantly in the Home Office as a dogged minister who chose to pursue her objectives without much scrutiny or publicity.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's widely publicised trip to Israel in July was labelled as «de-hyphenating» the traditional vector of Israel - Palestine in Indian strategic thinking in West Asia, without damaging relations with Arab states.

He appointed me as a shadow culture minister without my knowledge or consent while I was in the middle of cancer treatment, only to sack me shortly afterwards.