Sentences with phrase «by government ministers»

The move was criticised by government ministers who warned that excluding a pupil for any reason other than bad behaviour was against the law.

Orders are usually made by government ministers, and serve a specific, closely defined purpose.

Likewise, it would be unsatisfactory for lawyers to be regulated by a government minister's agents or appointees.

Also conveniently forgotten by Tsipras, now the champion of foreign investment and declared enemy of «wasteful spending,» was his party's past vehement opposition to foreign investment and the obstacles put by both government ministers and state bureaucracy to investments such as the gold mining operation in Chalkidiki peninsula, just east of Thessaloniki, and a real estate development project, by far Greece's largest, on the grounds of the former Athens airport.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

The introduction of the benefit freeze and the accompanying diatribes spewed by government ministers was designed to set a trap for the government's opponents.

His speech at the British embassy in Paris was the latest in a series of positive statements about the European Union by government ministers.

John Prescott has been defended by government minister Hilary Benn, amid calls from MPs and commentators for him to leave the cabinet.

After this morning's seminar, where the prime minister was joined by government ministers, the police and voluntary agencies, Mr Brown said the government would target ten key areas.

They should be given the respect by a government minister of being told the truth and knowing they can act against burglars or attackers.

There can be no faith in a Home Office - led inquiry into the Windrush scandal overseen by government ministers.

That is slowly changing, however, as national parliaments wrestle with recent promises by government ministers to provide undergraduates with a relatively harmonized system of degrees, credits, and requirements.

Last week the weather service caused a sensation by making the startling claim that it was gagged by government ministers from issuing a cold winter forecast.

Andrew Whitaker — News.Scotsman — April 30, 2013 PROPOSALS to protect large parts of wilderness and unspoilt land in Scotland from controversial wind farm developments will be unveiled by government ministers today.

A number of such laws are enshrined in primary legislation (acts of Parliament such as the Equality Act 2010) and secondary legislation (additional laws implemented by government ministers without the need to be passed by Parliament).

Theresa May's government finally collapses, with the catalyst believed to be an accident caused by government minister and former Linklaters lawyer Dominic Raab while testing a self - driving AI - propelled hoverboard stand - up desk as a favour to his old firm.

«I trust that no - one in this room would consider it appropriate for lawyers to be regulated directly by a government minister.

Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, described the Bill, which adopts EU law into UK statute, as «an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers».

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The film featured children from schools across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and was premiered at events attended across the UK attended by government ministers on Safer Internet Day.

After saying Australia needs to cut immigration numbers, former PM Tony Abbott has been criticised by government ministers, who say he's just wrong.

Conference deplores the misleading claims made by some government ministers that teachers have nothing to fear if a pupil dies or is injured as a result of participating in educational activity sanctioned by the school and where the teacher has exercised common sense.

Until the 1980s Dáil boundaries in Ireland were drawn not by an independent commission but by government ministers.

A regional schools commissioner (RSC) has been «poached» to join an academy chain set up by a government minister.