Sentences with phrase «former civil servants as»

Far from acknowledging the point and correcting the projections, the IPCC treated these eminent former civil servants as uncredentialed troublemakers.

Far from acknowledging the point and correcting the projections, the IPCC treated these eminent former civil servants as uncredentialed troublemakers.

Not exact matches

When Ontario asked Don Drummond, the respected former federal civil servant and bank economist, to review provincial expenditures in 2011, his most prominent recommendation was to scrap full - day kindergarten as «prohibitively expensive.»

The former civil servant also acknowledged the frustration felt among communities following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, as well as the «deprivation and inequality» which divides the capital.

The slick former minister, civil servant and investment banker pitches liberal internationalism as a rupture from the status quo.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, flayed the statement credited to the former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, that governors should sack civil servants to resolve the irregular salaries payment crisis, describing the call as «absurd».

This clearly is not good law and it is no wonder that the Hunting Act was cited in 2010 as an example of poor legislation by The Better Government Initiative, which was compiled by former senior civil servants, including Lord Butler, Sir John Chilcot and Sir Thomas Legg.

It was gathered that the EFCC had pencilled down seven chief executive officers and four former top civil servants as the first set of people to be interrogated before the end of the month as part of its investigation into the firms.

This year, the local party nominated as its candidate Richard Reichard, a retired civil servant and former president of the Staten Island Democratic Association club.

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

Blackmail, on the other hand, is the standard accusation of the weaker partner, as Nick Macpherson, former head of the civil servant at the Treasury, pointed out.

The prime minister currently has former Daily Mail political editor James Slack in place as her official spokesman, but as a civil servant he can not stray too far into political territory.

As a former civil servant and forester, he has sat around EU negotiating tables and knows how to fight for the best deal for Wales.

Former civil servant, he served as British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004.

His home, shared with wife Annemarie Norton — a former ballet dancer, is a reflection of the individual as collector and can only be compared to the very personal collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, the American civil servants who were equally inspired to compile such an intimate group of works.

As a former professor, senior civil servant and current CEO, I know that solving large problems involves the thoughtful, careful application of science, but I have come to respect the fact — a word I don't use lightly — that there are often a multitude of non-science issues that keep possible solutions from ever leaving the computer or test bench....

As it seemed likely to leave, it asked a former civil servant the same question.

It was established in this treaty that the persons who reside in the territory of Lithuania on the day of its ratification and «who themselves or whose parents permanently reside in Lithuania or who were entered into the communities of settlements, towns or estates in the territory of Lithuania», as well as the persons who had resided in Lithuania for not less than ten years by 1914 and who had permanent jobs, «excluding the former civil and military servants, of non-Lithuanian origin, with their families» are recognised as citizens of the State of Lithuania.