Sentences with phrase «former rubber stamps»
Built on a piece of land where a former rubber stamps factory once stood, it is a place with character.
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According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.
A cronyism row which saw an SNP cabinet secretary rubber - stamp a # 150,000 grant to the organisers of the T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former party adviser may have caused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the inconvenience of having to answer some awkward questions in the Scottish Parliament but it has done her party no discernible harm.
Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, said that «if President Buhari retains these ministers in the face of the serious allegations against them, he will show that the entire judicial corruption saga is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to blackmail the judiciary in order to subjugate it and make it a rubber stamp institution of the administration.»
It has emerged the former Prime Minister's resignation honours list is set to be simply rubber stamped by the committee appointed to scrutinise it.
Former Mayor Bloomberg was notorious for axing PEP appointees who did not rubber - stamp his policies — and de Blasio seems to be keeping up with the tradition.
«Details of the sham agreement are spreading far and wide and I am now being contacted by boat builders who fear Tasmania's wooden boat building industry will be ruined... Despite the fact that 90 per cent of two key iconic species, Celery Top Pine and King Bill Pine, are already in reserves the Greens are still not satisfied... More than 70 per cent of remaining sources of these timbers are in the 430,000 hectares rubber stamped by former Wilderness Society director Jonathan West in his flimsy advice accepted by the Prime Minister and the Premier last week... The wooden boat industry has an estimated annual value of $ 50 million but without a timber supply it has no future.»