Sentences with phrase «come as ministers»

The warnings about the money available for counter-terrorism come as ministers discuss a Spending Review that is likely to impose more cuts on the Home Office budget after the next general election.

His comments, which come as ministers prepare to unveil a # 200billion rescue package for the banks, are reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher's refusal to save «uneconomic» coal pits during the Eighties.

This came as the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, admitted that the Social Intervention Scheme piloted by the Federal Government has not performed fairly well.

This comes as ministers are reviewing the jobcentre network as a whole and the union fears there is a risk they will decide to close more jobcentres, particularly in rural areas.

The move came as ministers said that a snap election could be called for October to refresh what is now widely seen as a discredited parliament if Gordon Brown was replaced in a summer coup, most likely by Johnson.

The proposal to scrap GCSEs comes as ministers are pushing for an even greater emphasis on academic GCSEs, with plans for all pupils to have to take core academic subjects.

The warning — one of the starkest delivered by a top scientist — comes as ministers decide next week whether to weaken measures to cut the pollution that causes climate change...

Not exact matches

«These companies are moving out of Asia and coming to Africa to save labor costs,» said Fitsum Arega, who recently stepped down as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission to become an adviser to the new prime minister.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked off the 2015 Federal Election on Sunday morning, framing the campaign to come as a choice about the fiscal stewardship of Canada's government and economy overall.

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.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will tell United States congressional leaders and policymakers this week that commerce and trade are as powerful as «ships and planes» when it comes to exerting influence in the Asia - Pacific, as he seeks to breathe life into the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

And Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sparked accusations of xenophobia over anti-immigration comments and a poster campaign with slogans such as «If you come to Hungary, you can not take Hungarians» jobs.»

Finance Minister and former premier Taro Aso - who some suspect of dreaming of a come - back of his own - said on Tuesday Japan had no plan to buy foreign currency - denominated bonds as part of a monetary easing program.

The embattled prime minister of Malaysia, facing mounting political turmoil and a parade of inquiries at home and abroad into a sovereign wealth fund that he oversees, is now coming under the scrutiny of American investigators as well.

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

OTTAWA — A Canadian parliament riven by bitter partisan rancour came together as one amid the shocking news that Jim Flaherty, the impish, Irish former Conservative finance minister, died suddenly Thursday at his Ottawa residence.

It seems equally appropriate to describe Jim Flaherty, whose unexpected death today came less than a month after he resigned as federal Finance Minister.

The scandal comes at a bad time for Japanese business as a whole, as prime minister Shinzo Abe is trying to drum up global investor confidence by touting improved corporate governance standards.

Vivendi's defense of its stake in TIM came a day after Italian Industry Minister Carlo Calenda had described the French company as being an «awful» investor in TIM.

The Pakistani government said Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif met with the U.S. ambassador on Tuesday, and in coming days would speak with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson «on the state of play in the bilateral relationship as well as the new U.S. policy on South Asia».

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is usually so unflappable, his voice so unmodulated, his black brogues so unscuffed, that it almost came as a relief to hear him sounding more than just exasperated, maybe even a little hot under his well - ironed collar, answering reporters questions after an appearance today before the House finance committee.

Those efforts would come as Prime Minister Najib faces increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing this week to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

Two weeks after Redford's remarks, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters lower government revenues follow from lower commodity prices like «night follows the day,» meaning a hard line of spending as he approaches his own coming budget.

As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.

Stimulus help is coming by way of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's infrastructure program, which some analysts offer as a reason to avoid an interest - rate cut, or at least delay one.

A decision by Foxconn to give Sharp the lead would come as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to travel to the United States to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, who in his inauguration speech vowed to put «America first.»

The partisan quarrel comes as the Commons international trade committee is poised to meet Friday to consider a joint Conservative - NDP request for an emergency summer meeting to grill key ministers on Canada's approach to the NAFTA negotiations.

The delayed Saudi arrival comes after energy minister Al - Falih hinted on Sunday in Dhahran that OPEC doesn't necessarily need to cut output; a comment viewed by analysts as a bargaining position that could result in a price crash if no deal is reached.

The Minister of Finance has indicated that he would release details on why direct program expenses for 2012 - 13 came in so much lower than forecast to the PBO (hopefully, he will release these to Canadians as well).

A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism.The criticism came at the first meeting of EU ministers to discuss the plan, which was presented by the Commission last month and entails a 3 % levy on the digital revenues of large multinational corporations such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.

The move comes as Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy — dubbed «Abenomics» after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — has resulted in a paucity of available...

My first Davos was in 1995 and I've come back many times since, both as a minister and, more recently, as president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

Significantly, the United States and Britain have denied Modi a visaModi came to prominence as the hugely successful Chief Minister of Gujarat, a state of 63 million northwest of Mumbai on the Arabian Sea and the source of many immigrants to Canada.

The Prime Minister should refrain from making economic forecasts because, as he should know from past experience in 2008, there is a very good chance they will come back to haunt him.

The group, which came together in recent months as a vocal opponent of the finance minister's tax - reform plan, is urging him to go further — beyond the adjustments he made to calm an uproar that dogged him for months.

As I wrote last week, appointing cabinet ministers from outside the Legislature is not entirely unheard of in Canadian politics but it does come with some risks.

The official's comments helped to boost oil prices today, especially as they came on the heels of comments from Iran's Oil Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, who said Monday that compliance with the cuts among OPEC members was improving and the market was returning to balance.

Alexander, the former immigration minister, said that decision was triggered when an Iranian, whom he described as an «Iranian state representative,» showed up at Toronto's Pearson International Airport with a diplomatic passport from St. Kitts and said he had come to meet then prime minister Stephen Harper.

The announcement comes within weeks after Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal stated the use of virtual currencies is not authorized as a means of exchange by the RBI, and after Deputy Governor Shri R. Ghandi suggested that confidence will only be placed in a virtual currency issued by an authority.

«To hear those words from him in what is his last political speech as an MP is actually, for me personally, very touching,» Kenney told reporters, coming as close as anybody would to affirming this was an era - ending speech by the former prime minister.

All who were in the Bible spoke in and by the Holy Spirit in boldness when it came time for them to minister the Word, even as it is with me, also to bring forth my testimony as a witness: I can not fellowship with unbeliever's because all they do is cause division, and Christ is not divided: Therefore; remain as you are: This is the third time I have come to you, and you rejected me for the Word of God: Many did not even know that Jesus spoke the Word of God through Holy Spirit, so how is it that you are to know unless it be given to you to know: My God is Just and He is right, He knows the hearts of man are wicked and have turned from Him: Thank - you all, there are some that did get it: Thank - you Father in Jesus name Alexandria:

And his apostles do not come as propagandists of a secular doctrine of salvation «with sublimity of words or of wisdom» (1 Cor 2:1), but as «ministers of the Word» (Luke 1:2), as his «witnesses to the ends of the earth» (Acts 1:8), as preachers and teachers of the Gentiles in «faith and truth» (cf. 1 Tim 2:7).

It comes as the Prime Minister's announced new powers for police to seize terrorist suspects» passports and to prevent British people suspected of fighting abroad in places like Iraq and Syria from returning to the UK.

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

As a Baptist minister, the older I get... the more I study Scripture... the less I know about Scripture and about God... and the more I teach the simple basics: Man is a sinner in need of a Saviour and guide for both this life and the next, «Come.»

To suggest that King, Barbour's former student minister, is a model of the preacher as transformer as well as interpreter will come as no surprise.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

Two generations before the internet and social networking, the minister and grandfather of the self - help movement, Norman Vincent Peale, founded Guideposts as a place for what would eventually come to be known as user - generated content.

Possible effect: House duties can become a threat to the male minister who comes to prefer them to some of his other tasks such as office work, calling, studying and the like.