Sentences with phrase «change secretary when»

Ed Miliband came close to resigning as energy and climate change secretary when Gordon Brown insisted on pressing ahead with a third runway.

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«I can imagine these changes would be really good for the morale for the Chinese diplomats at the foreign ministry at a time when the morale of the diplomats in the US foreign service is at an all time low,» Susan Shirk, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told Bloomberg.

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.&raWhen immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.&rawhen the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

He's always been tough, but he changed when he started to have national ambitions,» said George Arzt, former press secretary to Democrat Ed Koch, one of Giuliani's predecessors as New York City mayor.

When Secretary DeVos issued her policy changes, she was attacked from the usual quarters, with commentators claiming that she was «sweeping sexual assaults under the rug,» «protecting rapists,» and «attacking survivors.»

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats presented a united front today when they called on the new environment secretary to join their climate change consensus.

Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, also asked if asked if the prime minister would have «have the moral backbone to tell [Trump] he is wrong on climate change» when she visits him in Washington.

The International Secretary General of MSF, Oberreit, illustrated this method when, at the same time as the tweet was issued about «victims of EU policies», he called on European governments to change their priorities: «rather than maximising the number of people they can push back, they must maximise the number they welcome and protect.»

The Committee on Climate Change has its offices in Holbein Place just off Sloane Square and has a budget of # 4.4 million all from the taxpayer (up from # 4.3 million under Labour when Ed Miliband was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.)

«I am worried there is a tendency on the Conservative right wing, a significant part of its parliamentary party, that does not appreciate the importance of being at the table in Brussels when it comes to negotiating the rules for the single market — and does not understand the strength the EU gives us globally in tackling problems like climate change,» the energy and climate change secretary said.

However, the Conservative»» coalition partners remain fiercely opposed to any changes to the current law and Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, said: «If Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then I can foresee a time when this party would be extremely uncomfortable in coalition.»

The health secretary wrote that «people should have every confidence we will make the changes necessary» when the health and social care bill returns to parliament in an article for the Telegraph newspaper.

«When they tried to fix prices in California it resulted in an electricity crisis and widespread blackouts,» energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey said.

The shadow foreign secretary will today seek to build momentum with a call to turn Labour into a «living, breathing movement for change» when he addresses supporters at a Westminster rally.

President Obama has chosen former journalist Jay Carney to replace press secretary Robert Gibbs, a longtime loyalist, when he leaves the post in mid-February — one of a number of staff changes announced today by White House chief of staff Bill Daley.

The debate came after Labour indicated a tougher approach to the EU when the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, called for a change to one of the founding principles of the EU — freedom of movement — to be introduced to prevent EU citizens travelling to Britain in search of a job.

David Willetts: «The Shadow Universities Secretary was full of praise for Mr McCain's experience and independence, but said an Obama victory would restore «the world's faith in America» and would represent the more «vivid change»... When the show's presenter later interpreted this as support for Mr Obama, Mr Willetts did not contradict him.

When I mentioned Scozzafava's ties to the ACORN - run WFP, Boehner political operative Don Seymour insisted this did not change his boss's support for her or his desire to have a Republican succeed Rep. (and incoming Secretary of the Army) John McHugh in the special election likely to be held November 3rd.

The former energy and climate change secretary is accused of asking his wife to take speeding points intended for him after his car was caught by a speed camera on the motorway between Stansted Airport and London in 2003, when he was an MEP.

Commenting on changes to A-Levels announced today by Ofqual, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While there can always be modifications made to any examination system, the NUT believes that current A-Levels stand up very well when compared with qualifications internationally.

The move tears up reforms introduced by Mr Cameron in 2011, when he split the roles of Cabinet Secretary, head of the Home Civil Service and permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office on the retirement of Sir Gus O'Donnell - now Lord O'Donnell - but Downing Street rejected suggestions that it was a mark that the previous changes haSecretary, head of the Home Civil Service and permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office on the retirement of Sir Gus O'Donnell - now Lord O'Donnell - but Downing Street rejected suggestions that it was a mark that the previous changes hasecretary at the Cabinet Office on the retirement of Sir Gus O'Donnell - now Lord O'Donnell - but Downing Street rejected suggestions that it was a mark that the previous changes had failed.

When ex-chancellor George Osborne pointed out that «the Titanic sank», the Foreign Secretary changed his mind and went with «colossal» instead, prompting riotous laughter from the audience.

They want Wright and the Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, to change the law so evidence of someone's sexual history can only be used when the similar conduct is out of the ordinary and unusual.

When I served as Secretary of the Ways and Means Committee in the mid 1980s, the Governor and the Legislature both operated under the understanding that the Legislature could amend the «terms and conditions» language that the Governor included in his proposed appropriations bills and that the Governor could veto those changes if he disagreed with them.

It is reported that the Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, is proposing changing the guidance so that motorists should be allowed to park on a double yellow line (or single yellow line when the restrictions apply) for 15 minutes before getting a ticket.

But the leadership came under fire from the Tory right when Laing, a close ally of the former defence secretary Liam Fox, criticised Cameron for alienating traditional Tory voters by imposing social change.

Much has changed since the day when I sat in David Davis's office (he was Shadow Home Secretary at the time, and I was a Conservative MP) scribbling lines for his response to Charles Clarke's Commons statement.

But a consumer advocacy campaign seeking the rule change failed when Department of Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell denied the request, saying Medicaid could cover some qualifying low - income women and that others could sign up during the regular enrollment period.

So now, just four months on, if he embarks on dramatic changes, sacks those who have publicly disagreed with him, like the shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, there's a danger it looks like when his own authority is challenged he just can't take it.

Former Home Secretary Jack Straw recalls the battle to change the law on the age of consent when Labour came to power.

Andrew Neil presses Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, who wrote the party's election manifesto, on when he changed his mind over the need for government cuts.

On hand to watch the flight was Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus: «The Navy has always been in the leadership when we've changed energy sources.

Happily, writer - director Mike White, whose métier is quirky movies like «Year of the Dog» in which a secretary's life changes when her dog dies, is not so arty this time.

The romantic tone arises originally from a triangle as both Phil and Bobby are in love with Phil's secretary, Vonnie, but will emerge as an improbable rectangle when marital situations change after a wrenching period of indecision.

Ms Bokova, Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Mitzie Hunter, Minister of Education (Ontario Provincial Parliament), Ambassador Dessima Williams, Special Adviser to the President of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and Fred van Leeuwen, Secretary - General of Education International, will take the floor on 8 March, when the two fora come together.

Moreover, in conversations with reporters, Secretary Bell publicly acknowledged — for the first time since February 1981 when he withdrew the proposed Lau rules — that the policy change also applies to about 500 school districts that had negotiated compliance agreements requiring native - language instruction based on the «Lau remedies.»

Secretary of Labor Elizabeth H. Dole said last week that the Bush Administration is considering ways to make it easier for workers to transfer pension benefits when they change employment.

He crafted the Philippines Framework Strategy on Climate Change when he was the secretary of the Climate Change Commission in 2010 and continues to chair an official side event on Tricontinental intercultural interfaith dialogue.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The announcement that there is to be an extra # 320 million to fund up to 140 new free schools demonstrates an extraordinary lack of judgement at a time when state schools across the country are tipping out their piggy banks to search for the loose change to run their schools, let alone engaging in any capital upgrading.

For all these reasons and more, we haven't seen the widespread changes President Obama or his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, might have hoped for when they made teacher evaluation one of their signature policies.

I would recognise that as the secretary of state it is essential to listen to the profession when considering changes or implementing initiatives.

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said the changes - brought in under Michael Gove when he was education secretary - had been driven by «political imperative», rather than the needs of young people.

But what changes are coming are far from known, with plenty of uncertainty for the 17 - campus system about what priorities the governing board and former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings will have when she starts in March.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: «Most worrying is the fact that teachers» professional development is being cut, at a time when there is massive change in the curriculum, its assessment and qualifications.

Tapping King to become the new secretary of education suggests there will be no significant change in California's relationship with Washington, at least when it comes to the teacher evaluation issue.

Ofqual's report said: «The decrease in early entry across all subjects, excluding English literature, is possibly explained by the change to school performance measures announced by the Department for Education in September 2013, when the secretary of state announced that only a student's first result in a subject would count towards performance tables.»

But White speaks for many anti-Common Core parents around the country when she notes: «We've already been through eight years of «transformational change» in public education and we don't need any more... I want a [n] Education] Secretary to hand off responsibility over education to the parents where it belongs... Yet, here is DeVos «ensuring» me of «opportunities» for my children — whom she doesn't know — in order to make sure she can benevolently «give» my kids what they need to fulfill their «highest potential» — which is MY job.»

Given the excellent case the Secretary of State is laying out, how can those statistics be changed by grammar schools when currently only 3 % of kids on free school meals go to grammar schools?

Changes: We have added § 685.200 (c)(2)(viii)(C) and § 685.200 (c)(2)(viii)(D) to provide that the Secretary adjusts the $ 2,085 threshold amount, or the most recent inflation - adjusted threshold amount, when the application of the percentage change in the CPI - U to the then current threshold amount results in an increase of $ 100 or more.