Sentences with phrase «as privy»

In Ottawa, Peter Harder, formerly a senior policy advisor at Dentons Canada LLP, was sworn in as a privy councillor in the Senate

Our barristers regularly appear as advocates before foreign courts and tribunals from first instance through to the higher Court such as the Privy Council; as well as appearing on all forms of ADR and provide expert evidence of law in foreign proceedings.

LO: I don't know, but I do know that the people who were chosen as privy councillors were chosen in consultation through Peter Mandelson and the then then prime minster.

Osborne was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 11 May 2010, and was sworn in as a Privy Counsellor the following day.

At the very least George Osborne should be stripped of his title as a Privy Councillor and barred from any secure briefings that the role gives him.

Not exact matches

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas is also calling for Osborne to step down as an MP and be stripped of his Privy Council membership, which gives the former Tory chancellor access to highly privileged government information.

Although he's no longer privy to management discussions, as one of Twitter's first, biggest and most involved investors, Sacca probably knows more about the company than anyone who's not a current executive or board member.

This is a paradigm that I really, really, really, wish more of my peers on Twitter (and other public channels) would take to heart as well - it's been a pain to be subject to posts that are essentially irrelevant or incorrect «takes» on a particular matter, or be privy to users who seem to incessantly complain, and are eager to have their brand of negativity imprinted on everything and anything.

As a three time Inc. 500 company, we've been privy to parts of Skullcandy's financials for some time, but the new filing gives us a much more detailed look.

Our business struggled as I saw my employees making decisions I disagreed with, not realizing at the time it was because I had information they weren't privy to.

This is especially true on the downside because high yield investors typically are «privy» to bank credit information — trust me, this is true, as our high yield desk was next to the bank debt trading desk and we were very friendly with each other — and can see when corporate numbers are deteriorating well in advance of equity analysts and investors.

Mr. Page never expected to be the Parliamentary Budget Officer, nor had he actively sought the position He had worked in several federal departments, including the Department of Finance in the Economic Analysis and Fiscal Forecasting Branch and in the Privy Council Office as Deputy Head of the Planning and Priorities Division.

Pershing Square is not legally able to start selling its stock until at least Tuesday, when Penney is scheduled to report its second - quarter results, because Ackman was privy to confidential financial information as a board member.

Garrett French is somebody I've been paying special attention to as of late — and if you're at all privy to new developments in the SEO world, you're noticing him too.

Through regular polling of our membership, we are privy to an up - to - date, firsthand perspective regarding the state of the economy, as well as their feedback concerning what changes need to be made to government policies.

He has a long career in government and has served as deputy secretary to the cabinet at the Privy Council Office, associate deputy minister and then acting deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, associate assistant deputy minister of energy policy and assistant deputy minister of international trade and finance.

As I've said, while the Bible DOES give us some EXPLICIT instructions, such as «believe in Jesus»... the Bible also ALLUDES to secrets of the universe that we are not privy to knoAs I've said, while the Bible DOES give us some EXPLICIT instructions, such as «believe in Jesus»... the Bible also ALLUDES to secrets of the universe that we are not privy to knoas «believe in Jesus»... the Bible also ALLUDES to secrets of the universe that we are not privy to know.

As I said earlier, while God HAS given us plenty of explicit instructions that are beyond the shadow of a doubt (Jesus, heaven, hell)... He also ALLUDES to secrets of the universe that we are not privy to know.

At times God is deceptive and abusive, as for instance in Jeremiah's complaint in Jeremiah 20:7 - 18 and in the narrative account of the divine council to which the prophet Micaiah ben Imlah is privy (1 Kings 22:20 - 22).

As an outsider not privy to psychic, celestial conversations there is no way for anyone to know if it was God who spoke with those people, Moses, Joseph Smith, David Koresh etc ad nauseum or if it was mental illness.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

As strange as it may sound, I actually became privy to this information while I was visiting and touring culinary schools years ago and I haven't looked back sincAs strange as it may sound, I actually became privy to this information while I was visiting and touring culinary schools years ago and I haven't looked back sincas it may sound, I actually became privy to this information while I was visiting and touring culinary schools years ago and I haven't looked back since.

Retailers have recently become privy to the use of GMOs in cosmetics, asking questions and touting non-GMO beauty products as important to the safe cosmetics industry.

We as fans are never really privy to that information, as you said.

Every now and then, we as fans are privy to the opportunity to see a player or team do something that instantly turns them into a sports immortal.

I thought only I was privy to this, didn't know you knew this as well Bob.

Obviously, we are not privy to inside information but as an outsider looking in, the uncertainty and the silence raise a myriad of questions where we desperately crave answers.

While I am not privy to Pochettino's discussions with his assistants and Jan, I feel however that this aspect of his play has been either encouraged by Pochettino or accepted as part of his play as a centre back.

Although that photo was TMI, it was the first time I had been privy to the mystery of my parents as people with dreams, hopes, fears and yes, passions, and not just as my mother and father.

Having your first baby is one of the most rewarding experiences we are privy to as mothers.

In cases where excess wealth was held until death, he advocated its apprehension by the state on a progressive scale: «Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estates which should go at his death to the public through the agency of the State, and by all means such taxes should be granted, beginning at nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the amounts swell, until of the millionaire's hoard, at least the other half comes to the privy coffer of the State.»

Added to these over-arching responsibilities are individual powers to operate the Royal Prerogative (as the de facto chair of the Privy Council)- to declare war (including single - handedly authorising the launch of a nuclear strike), to sign international treaties and to represent the UK at the highest level in international and European negotiations.

Diane Abbott has made a bid to tone done her anti-monarchist views as she prepares to be made a member of the Privy Council.

[32] On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was also given the title of Labour Party Chair.

And the Privy Council, acting as their highest court, still provides a useful guarantee of legal certainty to the owners of the many corporations nominally residing on these islands.

In relation to the first appointments to the Order of the British Empire in 1917, Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Keeper of the Privy Purse, urged the inclusion of well - known names as «window dressing to make the new decoration attractive».

A copy of the suit said: «This honourable court will be moved by Gary Nimako Marfo ESQ., counsel for and on behalf of plaintiff / applicants herein praying for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain defendants / respondents, whether by themselves, agents, servants, workmen, hirelings, privies or any person claiming under or through them or howsoever described, from holding out the second defendant / respondent, [as] the parliamentary candidate - elect for Klottey Korle constituency.»

He was appointed to the Lords in 1990, made Labour leader there two years later, became a privy counsellor in 1993 and joined the Blair government as leader of the Lords and lord privy seal in 1997.

Empire State Development did not provide guidance on how to read the report, so anyone not privy to state definitions of certain terms may have come to the same conclusion as the assembly member.

A copy of the suit, which is available to ClassFMonline.com said: «This honourable court will be moved by Gary Nimako Marfo ESQ., counsel for and on behalf of plaintiff / applicants herein praying for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain defendants / respondents, whether by themselves, agents, servants, workmen, hirelings, privies or any person claiming under or through them or howsoever described, from holding out the second defendant / respondent, [as] the parliamentary candidate - elect for Klottey Korle constituency.»

Michael Fallon MP as Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and a Member of the Privy Council

The press was engaged in a last ditch - effort to stop itself falling under statutory control today, as a shadowy meeting of the privy council meets to impose new rules on the industry.

Initially serving as Lord Privy Seal, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister in 1942.

The Federal Executive Council is the Australian equivalent of the Executive Councils and privy councils in other Commonwealth realms such as the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and the Privy Council of the United Kinprivy councils in other Commonwealth realms such as the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and the Privy Council of the United KinPrivy Council for Canada and the Privy Council of the United KinPrivy Council of the United Kingdom.

Mr Huhne resigned from the Cabinet when he was charged with perverting the course of justice, and later quit as a Liberal Democrat MP and privy councillor.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

In September 2012, he was appointed to his first ministerial position as deputy leader of the House of Commons, having been appointed a privy counsellor in June 2011.

He was replaced as Leader of the Lords by Lord Hill of Oareford, who also becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and a member of the Privy Council.

[1] He served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1935 to 1941 under successively Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1939.

Blair made him a member of the privy council in recompense and offered him a seat in the House of Lords on his resignation as an MP the following year.