Sentences with phrase «faced by ministers»

His comments underline the difficulties faced by ministers as they seek to identify areas of compromise.

We're sympathetic to the dilemmas faced by ministers, but ultimately their job is to make the right decisions; we're a squillion times more sympathetic to those who feel they've got a raw deal.

Another hazard faced by ministers and their wives is the tendency to restrict personal satisfactions and recreation.

The constant pressure to set a good example is another mental health hazard faced by ministers and their wives.

There seem to me to be three general kinds of temptation faced by ministers working in our inner cities today, apart from graft and the lure of the suburbs.

Other mental health hazards faced by the minister and his family are the factors which make parsonage family life difficult.

Not exact matches

Faced with a potential strike by the airline's machinists union and a lockout of its pilots, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred both disputes to the CIRB on March 8, then introduced back - to - work legislation four days later.

«The Spanish situation is still too fluid to predict, but like the German result, the PR disaster faced by Madrid and (Prime Minister Mariano) Rajoy's minority government are not reasons to be buying euros here, especially with the leveraged money community already long of euros,» Stephen Gallo, European head of FX Strategy at the Bank of Montreal, told CNBC via email.

For his part, Abe is facing cronyism scandals in Japan related to the discounted sale of government land to a private school and the approval of a new veterinary school run by one of the Prime Minister's friends.

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the government remains committed to eliminating the deficit by 2017 - 18, but the Fitch announcement underscores the challenges the province's economy faces.

Our foreign and economic ministers were blindsided by Mr. Trump's signing of executive orders to move ahead with building a wall and adopting anti-immigrant policies on the same day the ministers arrived in Washington, where they faced a very inauspicious atmosphere for talks.

Despite a threat by the U.S. Department of Commerce to slap a 219 per cent countervailing duty on jets made by Montreal's Bombardier, however, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland was resolutely upbeat when she faced the media.

Jack Mintz, a former adviser to the Department of Finance and the Prime Minister, wrote in the Globe and Mail «It is also poor policy by steepening the wall of taxation faced by growing firms.

In spite of highly public commitments by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to speed the flow of goods across the border, many companies are facing a very different reality on the ground, he said.

The measures unveiled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau will require mortgages with a down payment of more than 20 per cent to face the same eligibility requirement for insurance as those with lower down payments.

Some Progressive Conservative Party supporters are privately expressing frustration with the decision by Premier Jim Prentice and his cabinet ministers to openly campaign and endorse incumbent PC MLAs and Wildrose floor crossers facing nomination challenges.

Finance Minister Doug Horner will face criticism over Auditor General Merwan Saher «s investigation into whether the government violated the Government Accountability Act by releasing shortened versions of financials documents during the 1st quarter update of the provincial budget this summer.

«Jobs» and «diversification» were key buzzwords used by NDP cabinet ministers this spring as they face an increase in unemployment and decrease in industry investment caused by the decline of the international price of oil.

But the plan to use Jersey faced a potential snag: In mid-2014, again under pressure from other governments, Irish ministers explored ending a tax shelter known as the «double Irish,» used by scores of companies, including the Appleby clients Allergan and Facebook, as well as Google, LinkedIn and other businesses.

After being abused by my own sister, married to a Methodist minister in Maryland, who both choose to believe the lies, distortions and slander about me based on twisted stories designed to protect the abuser, when the facts are as plain and clear as the sun on their faces... all because they are «in relation» with the abuser, and I should have «kept my truth within the family» and not made it «public.»

Budget problems faced by small churches, and even larger ones, could be alleviated if a new passion for tithing were to catch hold in church life, said Anthony Pappas, an American Baptist area minister in southeastern Massachusetts who commented in the study on Lummis's findings.

If you are surrounded by jelly - faced toddlers or thousands of longing hungry souls, or if you lift your head to find yourself in a hospital or a back alley or a church or an orphanage or your own suburban kitchen, if you are given a voice for dozens or only one other soul, you are a minister, feel it, say the words, roll them against your teeth: you have been commissioned for the work of the Gospel, in Christ Jesus, you have.

The former Home Secretary, who became the UK's first blind cabinet minister, has highlighted the challenges faced by disabled people in developing countries.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

The Telegraph claimed that Gordon Brown was «facing a rebellion by Roman CatholicCabinet ministers».

Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agriculture sector.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

The MP for Wyre and Preston North Ben Wallace has said that delays faced by firefighters responding to the Manchester Arena terror attack were «not key» to whether or not people received treatment, a minister has said.

Even in the midst of facing down the existential threat posed by Nazi Germany the cigar - chomping Prime Minister still had an

Even in the midst of facing down the existential threat posed by Nazi Germany the cigar - chomping Prime Minister still had an afternoon nap every single day, without exception.

The prime minister used his opening speech to an international conference on Somalia taking place in London to warn that, despite political advances in Somalia like a new president, government and parliament elected by representatives of all clans, the country «still faces desperate poverty».

Speaking this morning, Mr Brown, whose five days as prime minister have so far been dominated by the terror strikes in the UK, warned that the threat facing the country was «long - term and sustained».

This was good for a different reason: genuine pressure faced by the prime minister, who faced question after question from eurosceptic malcontents seated behind him.

The prime minister was «appalled» by the racial abuse faced by England's under - 21 squad in Serbia last night, according to his official Twitter account.

The Prime Minister revealed that he thought supporters of the North London club should not face prosecution for chanting the terms «Yiddos» and «Yid army» at games because they are jokingly referring to themselves and therefore not «motivated by hate».

For a period the play loses its light tones and becomes mired in the agonies faced by real prime ministers every day.

Andrew Mitchell has warned that 400,000 people face starvation in the Horn of Africa, on the first visit to Somalia by a British minister for 18 years.

People who fail to pay fines enforced by the courts or police will face a tougher range of penalties, ministers will announce today.

Prime minister David Cameron will chair a meeting of the national security council later addressing the dilemmas faced by the strategic defence and security and review (SDSR).

A former minister of State for Finance of Nigeria, Aderemi Babalola, has blamed the mismanagement of oil proceeds for the current economic challenges faced by Nigeria.

By Sian Norris On Wednesday, SNP MP Hannah Bardell asked the prime minister to intervene on behalf of her constituent Lola Ilesanmi, who currently faces deportation to Nigeria where her three - year - old daughter is at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Despite defending herself heroically in the face of the Paxman onslaught on Newsnight recently, I was distracted by the way junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith repeatedly drank her water and put her glass down soooo precisely.

But there were suspicions the policy was thrown together at the last minute by Cameron as he faced one of his worst PMQs as prime minister.

By now the red peril had all but consumed the prime minister's face.

Any minister is reliant on their private office to point out what they need to read and what they don't, and on the face of it she was let down by her civil servants and her special advisers.

The deputy prime minister used a newspaper interview to speak out against the increasing pressure faced by David Cameron from the Tory leader's backbenchers.

We're governed by an interim prime minister whose Cabinet is more interested in their own egos than facing up to the biggest challenge to face our country since 1945, and have threatened the EU with ending our cooperation on security and intelligence issues as well as returning nuclear waste.

The Minister in the statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said there was no basis for him to storm out of the meeting which was called by the leaders to proffer way forward for the party, in the face of the rescheduled Ekiti governorship primary.

David Cameron faces mockery from the opposition in prime minister's questions this lunchtime, after being hit by a second ministerial resignation in the Lords this week.

It's a national security issue — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:42 We are confident these priorities will not only provide jobs but will improve the security of Ghanaians — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:41 Our job creation agenda will be driven by investment in human capital — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:40 The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability into shared growth - Ken Ofori - Atta 10:33 We have restored macro stability and renewed confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:32 We have achieved in one year, what seemed impossible to achieve in eight years — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 We have provided stable electricity supply — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 I am glad to report that we are on course to end the year with the fiscal deficit of 6.5 % — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:30 We are happy to note that our policies are yielding results that have brought back smiles to several Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 We resolve to be fiscally discipline — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 I'm happy to note that we have turned the economy around — Ken Ofori Atta 10:28 When I presented the budget in March, I indicated our commitment to take strategic steps to fix the challenges facing the economy and restore hope to Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:25 I thank the august House for all the support that has brought us so far — Ken Ofori Atta 10:24 Speaker of Parliament invites the Finance Minister to present the 2018 budget