Sentences with phrase «calling time a minister»

To make the most constructive use of his calling time a minister might maintain a «Special Help List» of the names of those whom he knows or suspects have special needs.

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«While we understand that the CRTC feels the industry needs time to adjust to the new rules, we call on all industry players to deliver the choice to Canadians that they deserve in a timely manner,» Canadian Heritage Minister Shelly Glover said in a statement.

The BCC's revisions come as U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times reported a fresh legal challenge would be presented to Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday, calling into question whether the government has the requisite authority to leave the single market.

As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

No wonder several of Canada's former prime ministers, from both parties, have at one time or another called this neighbourhood home.

For the record, the Defence Minister continues to insist he was called back from personal time to attend a news conference on very short notice.

My great grandfather was a Baptist minister and on New Year's Day, so runs the family tradition, he used to call on all the members of his parish, and at every house, according to the hospitable custom of the time, he took his whiskey, until at night, happily mellow, he returned home amid the benedictions of his flock.

I think all pastors and full time ministers should be mind full that we are called to give up our lives for the sheep, not to enrich our lives at the expense of the sheep.

This IS WORK, it is taxing, it is hard, you have to be called, and yes it is worth it, but let's empower and enable ministers by not adding more of a financial burden on minsters on top of that to go out and work a full time job as well.

Warning that millions of people already in debt are being left with «nothing to fall back on», Dr John Sentamu called upon minister to reduce the time period.

What troubles me about the situation is not what happens to this full - time teacher, but the inferiority complex which his training and his (collective) sense of a «higher» calling give to ordained ministers.

The bearable thing about the crises of integrity that often occur in early and mid career is that there is still time to compensate for what seems to be going or has gone amiss in the working out of the minister's calling.

For quite some time the Scotch - Irish ministers, called the «Old Side» group, had been opposed to the New England trained and Log College «New Side» Presbyterians.

That is why Christians are called to minister to those around them, because we know that at one time we to we're lost As to the middle part, it is a valid point, however the reason Christians are «supposed» to be saved is because they realize their sin and how much God loves them.

Paul blessings as i shared with Christine it is a personal relationship with Jesus when Jesus called his disciples he said follow me not the church not man.I belong to 2 churchs and i keep in touch with a couple indirectly and minister from time to time they are all different styles and different doctrines and in each of them i have people i care about they are family to me brothers and sisters in the Lord and i can go there and feel at home we sing and worship the Lord and hear the word together its awesome.I used to feel that i did nt fit in now i can fit in anywhere because where we go he goes with us.There is unity in Christ even though we may differ in doctrine.brentnz

When one considers the actual conditions that prevailed in the local congregations at the time of the Reformation and is mindful of the fact that the people themselves for many reasons lacked initiative so that, as objects rather than as subjects of action, they were dependent upon the leadership of the princes, magistrates, and church governments, one can understand why the actual calling of the ministers was in fact rarely the result of their decision.

Dear Readers: The following column has been published many times, and a significant number of readers wrote to say it deserved to be run every Mother's Day: Dear Abby: My beloved mother passed away recently, so I called my minister and asked him for the wording of a prayer I could say for my mother.

One, an open letter to the then Prime Minister - in - waiting Gordon Brown and published in The Times (to read it click here) brought together 30 signatories ranging from Women's Aid to Families Need Fathers, and called on the government to ensure good services for separated families.

The prime minister also had the power to call a general election at any time just by going to the Queen and asking for one.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

Prior to 2011, the law was that an election had to be held at least every 5 years, but there was no minimum time; elections were called whenever the Prime Minister felt they had the best chance of winning.

Both Labour MPs and the Prime Minister had called for the process to be concluded in time for the next general election, due by mid-2010.

This was certainly an unusually eventful and rather eccentric oral questions session, covering asbestos in the House, calls for question time especially for London Mayor Boris Johnson and demands for Deputy Prime Minister Questions to be abolished because they are «useless».

Meanwhile the prime minister will say later that «extraordinary times call for bold and far reaching solutions».

The requirements from last March have been published and it is time for Liberal Democrat ministers to engage with what we have called for.

Can you imagine: His Excellency, the leader of the Catholic Church in New York State, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, taking time out of his busy schedule to call a Protestant Evangelical Minister!

Mr Cable was dismissive of those who suggested his appearance with a group of centre - left politicians was badly timed, coming just three days after he called the prime minister's immigration speech «very unwise».

His reassignment comes at a time when some Ghanaians on social media have called on the government to sack the Interior Minister and the IGP for failing to ensure the protection of the citizenry.

Reverend Jim Ketcham a Baptist Minister is on the New York State Council of Churches executive board, called the budget so far «obscene and immoral», for not including proposals by the governor and the Democratic led Assembly to increase taxes on the rich, while at the same time not increasing funding for the needy.

«After the purported failed exercise, another South - south caucus meeting was called, this time at the home of minister of state for Petroleum and it was agreed the rules were not followed in Rivers State and the exercise in Rivers State was not acceptable.»

He will be given the honour for his time spent as a cabinet minister but his reward is still likely to be controversial with Brexit supporters because of his passionate opposition to leaving the EU, including writing a book called How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again).

May has repeatedly rejected calls for an early election since becoming leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, which made the timing extremely unexpected.

Let's not forget that, unlike previous prime ministers, Cameron will not be able to call an early election at a convenient time, unless he changes the law and abandons the Fixed - term Parliaments Act — which his government introduced.

Jeremy Corbyn has explicitly disclosed for the first time that he will instruct his MPs to back an early general election if the Prime Minister wants to call one.

And the same Prime Minister, who said I was anti-business when I called time on undeserved rewards at the top, now claims he's desperate to stop them too.

New Labour should have done more to pursue a thoroughgoing empowerment of local government and local communities - what I called in my time as minister for communities and local government «double devolution».

His comments are unlikely to be welcomed by Sir Menzies, who has come under fire for his lacklustre performance at prime minister's question time - this week, he had to fight to speak above calls of «bring Kennedy back» from some opposition MPs.

One senior Labour minister went as far to call the candidates «out of control» and warned it was time for «Gordon to rein them in».

The prime minister took time out to praise the work of social workers, who undertake a «noble and vital calling.»

The FTPA removed that power in order to prevent elections being called at a time that best suited the Prime Minister's own political interest.

I'm told that as employment minister he took to calling the Citizen's Advice chief executive every time she said anything critical about welfare reform.

The minister said, «We call it a candidate vaccine, we have to run it through trial and it will take some time.

Last week the First Minister resisted pressure to resign but agreed to calls for an independent inquiry into his actions and decisions in relation to Carl Sargeant, although there are still questions about the nature and timing of that inquiry.

At various times, the post has been called Shadow Minister for Transport (including from 1979 to 1981), Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment and Transport.

Lib Dem MPs, led by Julian Huppert, have called for any such plans to be subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny; it now appears that this will be the case, with Deputy Prime Minister acknowledging «draft clauses» will be published at the time of the Queen's Speech, to be followed by Parliamentary hearings.

Ms Cartmail called for the prime minister to «call «time»» on private healthcare companies «that seek to make a handsome profit from the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable».

Lord Fowler, a peer and former Conservative cabinet minister, meanwhile called for the rules to be overhauled so that peers could be suspended or expelled for wrongdoing, following the allegations made in yesterday's Sunday Times.

«In a brief telephone interview this morning, Diaz Sr., a Pentecostal minister who has long been vocal in his opposition to gay marriage, questioned Paterson's timing and called it «ridiculous,» particularly given the fact that this is the week Archbishop Timothy Dolan is being installed in his new job.

According to him, Professor Mills assured him that if at any point in time he (Mills) was unable to continue the «agenda», he'd support him (Spio) for the top NDC slot, even adding that Mills told everyone that in any government he will be called upon to form, Dr Spio Garbrah will be the first person he will make a Minister.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has called the revelations in The Sunday Times that the Tory party was allegedly selling access to the Prime Minister «very disturbing.»