Sentences with phrase «first minister of state»

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The United States, he said, had been aware after efforts during Obama's first term, of the deep personal mistrust between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

And newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry, the man charged with accepting or rejecting TransCanada's permit application, sounded sour on Keystone during his first tête - à - tête with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

A lovely counterpoint to last week in Canadian politics on greenhouse gas emission reductions, Kyoto and Minister Baird: Norway Plans to Go «Carbon Neutral» April 20, 2007 â $» Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday proposed to make Norway the first «carbon neutral» state by 2050 and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 30 percent -LSB-...]

Its response Wednesday, in a statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's spokesman Adam Austen was: «As we stated at the conclusion of the first round of talks, we are committed to upgrading NAFTA and establishing 21st century standards supporting middle class jobs to the benefit of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.»

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The move to establish banks along the lines of community banks in the United States and Europe was first floated by India's Finance minister, Arun Jaitley, last year.

Back in 2009, as chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he successfully pioneered India's first solar incentives.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership can't come into force without the support of the United States, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said the day after Donald Trump promised to withdraw the U.S. from the 12 - country trade pact on his first day in office.

Mielke, the Minister for State Security in the German Democratic Republic who was responsible for hundreds of deaths at the Berlin Wall, faced critical questions in the first democratically elected parliament after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Mr. Keith Cressman, a Methodist minister, filed suit against the state alleging violations of his rights to freedom of speech, due process, and the free exercise of religion under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Oberlin College, named after minister Jean - Frederic Oberlin, was the first college in the United States to admit students of all races and in 1844 graduated the first black student, George B. Vashon.

The government's minister for faith says he would be unable to welcome Donald Trump to the UK on a state visit following his retweeting of videos posted by far - right group Britain First.

She's not wrong about Iceland's liberal bent — Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir is the world's first openly lesbian head of state — but the country's history of curtailing pornography is storied.

Original Sin then - that overlooked but vital doctrine of the reality of our state, and the introduction into the material universe for the first time of «the problem of evil» - teaches the rupturing of that living, holy communion of good by which, from the first pair, men were to minister life and fulfilment to one another through Christ.

A professor of psychiatry accented the role of clergymen when he stated: «We recognize the minister as one of the first lines of defense in the mental hygiene movement.»

The book on polity for the Presbyterian Church U.S. states that the office of the minister of the word «is the first in the Church, both for dignity and usefulness.»

Even if Israel flouts American orders» as then «Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir flouted the wishes of the first Bush administration in 1992» the United States will not sanction Israel.

The Scotch whisky and premium gin business of Pernod Ricard invited First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to officially open the state - of - the - art Dalmunach Distillery on the banks of the River Spey.

Recently the Tasmanian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) recognised the unacceptable cruelty permitted by the flawed national code, and recommended to the Primary Industries Minister, Bryan Green, that Tasmania take a leading role to become the first state to outlaw the cruel practice of confining sows in stalls.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

A former Deputy Communications minister, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, has praised the efforts of Ghana's first lady, Rebecca Akufo - Addo, and stated that she has performed better than her husband.

Two other signatories to the agreement had been notable players in the political drama thus far: the secretary of state for Scotland, Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore, and Nicola Sturgeon who, as deputy first minister of Scotland, had concluded the referendum negotiations just days before Salmond and Cameron had put pen to paper.

A minister under Thatcher and Major, Mellor became, in 1992, the first ever secretary of state at the Department of National Heritage, now the DCMS.

The first batch of N153.01 Billion is currently being processed for release to 14 State Governments,» The statement by the Ministry, made available to the Nigeria Politics Online by the Media to the minister, Festus Akanbi, stated.

Shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle has been applauded for a «bravura» and «truly amazing» prime minister's questions debut.

Shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle did her best to exploit Tory splits over Europe as she stood in for Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions today.

At noon, he and First Lady Melania Trump greet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mrs. Netanyahu of Israel, and then the two heads of state will meet, sans wives.

Why because I mean of course in life you want to over periods of time take up other challenges so ten years on the job, I thought would have been enough for me to take up another challenge... so my first choice would not have been to be Minister for Information and Presidential Spokesperson,» he stated.

It was significant, I thought, that the first senior Cabinet minister to turn up in Downing Street on Sunday evening for pre-talks talks - or as No 10 put it «to discuss the latest state of play on the EU renegotiation» — was Theresa May, the Euro - sceptic leaning Home Secretary.

The reshuffle also saw Mrs May's key ally Damian Green the new First Secretary of State - a title generally associated with the role of deputy prime minister.

The deputy to substantive minister Elizabeth Ofosu - Agyare also stated that it is during their «tenure that the first and second drafts of the film bill have come into being and although parliament is yet to pass it for the president to append his signature, stakeholders can lobby parliamentarians so the film bill is passed as the ministry continues to push for the passage.»

With his new title of First Secretary of State, previously held by William Hague, and no Deputy Prime Minister this time, George Osborne will now stand in at Prime Minister's Questions.

Following David Cameron's first anniversary as Prime Minister, comment has been dominated by the state of the coalition government.

Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and First Minister of Northern Ireland, has stated during a TV interview that it was the backlash against a rally held in memory to two IRA terrorists that led to his party withdrawing its support from plans to build a peace centre in what used to be HM Prison Maze, on the site of the former Long Kesh Detention Centre.

In a Parliamentary debate on Armed Forces Personnel yesterday, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey rather poignantly assessed the state of the military now, compared with the First and Second World Wars.

Wike, who was minister of state for Education under Jonathan and generally perceived as First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan's «anointed», attacked «most cabinet members» for taking advantage of the former president's gentlemanliness.

The source further disclosed that in one of the meetings with the Minister of State for Petroleum, the NNPC had promised to provide marketers who were licensed to import products in the first quarter, with dollars to pay for their products, as a way to ease the foreign exchange challenges.

Accompanying the First Lady are Minister of State in - charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, the Director of the Crop Research Institute (CRI), Mrs. Stella Ennin and a Director at the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft Johnson

The Prime Minister and First Minister had a «cordial» phone conversation, in which David Cameron seemed surprised by suggestions from opposition parties that the bill won't be included in the legislative programme read out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament.

Osborne has been reappointed as Chancellor and also named First Secretary of State - effectively equivalent to deputy prime minister.

Damian Green, first secretary of state and minister for the Cabinet Office, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on September 7.

May must now decide whether to replace her longstanding ally with an individual who holds down the same two roles as Green, who was first secretary of state and Cabinet Office minister.

Kirsty Williams AM, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has written to the First Minister today stating that her party will vote against the Local Government Settlement unless a better deal for rural authorities is put forward.

Gottfried and Perkins were joined at the Albany press conference today by Laurie Wen, Executive Director, Physicians for a National Health Program — NY Metro; Dr. Paul Sorum, former Chair of the Capital District chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program; Vito Grasso, Executive Vice President of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians; Lisa Blodgett, New York State Nurses Association; Doug Bullock, First Vice President of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor; Rev. Frances Rosenau, Associate Minister at the Westminster Presbyterian Church; and Mark Dunlea, co-founder of Single Payer New York and Executive Director of the Hunger Action Network of New York State.

Indeed, both Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones and Conservative Secretary of State Stephen Crabb have argued that Wales should be offered — though not necessarily accept — the same powers on offer to Scotland through the Smith Commission process and its aftermath.

In the House of Commons he stated that he had been placed under pressure by the prime minister to withdraw the motion, first by being offered a job, and then by being threatened.

In 2015 - 16, Mark Francois, Penny Mordaunt and Sajid Javid all paid their subscriptions to the organisation while holding jobs in government, and the ERG gained its first cabinet level minister, as Javid became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Labour's shadow secretary of state for housing, John Healey MP, said: «The Prime Minister should be embarrassed to be fronting up these feeble measures first announced a year ago.