Sentences with phrase «good number of his ministers»

A list sighted by DAILY GUIDE showed that a good number of the ministers, who served under former President John Mahama, took double salaries for four years, whilst others received double salaries for two and three years, probably because they were reshuffled.

Not exact matches

Last week Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made a well - publicized appearance at the Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) where he discussed a number of issues, including the possibility of having a national securities regulator.

However the CPP boosters will encounter stiff resistance from the meeting's host, Alberta finance minister Ted Morton, as well as a number of prominent pension experts.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi also passed a law aiming to encourage a wave of mergers among the country's «popolari» banks — the 10 largest cooperative institutions — while new regulations limiting the number of bank shares that a foundation can hold as well as new tax rules regarding loan write - downs have been introduced.

Since members of the family are often too much involved themselves to see the oncoming development of suicide in one of their number, it is here that the minister may well save a life.

This intimate number also provides opportunities for you to engage in discussion with seasoned ministers and best practice leaders in the area of young adult ministry.

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

Members of the staff have participated in conferences of educators of the American Baptist Convention, the United Church of Canada, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Disciples of Christ, the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. With the advice of denominational leaders and others they compiled a list of pastors regarded by their colleagues as «good ministers» and entered into correspondence with a number of them, chosen so as to make the whole group representative of the denominational pattern.

Since there's only me to eat it this time, I did leave the pasta out so I could freeze it — pasta will be added individually each time — but when I make it for my minister and his large family (seven children, with number eight due in just a few days), I'll include the pasta (as well as red wine — just a cup — in place of one can of soup) because there won't be any leftovers, even though I'll triple the recipe

«Successful governments require a number of ingredients: strong leadership, public support, dedicated ministers, and a good dose of luck, to name but a few.

My opposite number, who was the City minister for part of this period and Gordon Brown's right hand man for all of it, has questions to answer as well.»

We spare no effort when it comes to the well - being of pilgrims and our number one priority is to welcome individuals from all over the world as they seek to fulfil their religious and spiritual duty,» said HE Dr. Awwad Alawwad, Minister of Culture and Information.

And the lure of shadow cabinet elections - which Corbyn has promised to re-introduce - could well prove irresistible to a number of junior ministers and wannabe ministers.

The biggest difference between parties was the number of people who voted on the basis that «the Party Leader would make the best Prime Minister.»

The launch was attended by a number of high profile dignitaries including Mr Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department of the IMF; Annalisa Fedelino, Mission Chief for Ghana; Natalia Koliandina, IMF Resident Representative for Ghana; Ghana's Senior Minister Yaw Osafo - Maafo; Finance Minister Ken Ofori - Atta, as well as the First and Second Deputy Governors of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Maxwell Opoku - Afari and Mrs Elsie Awadzi.

Expect a good number of middle ranking ministers to be chopped.

Tory constitutional reform minister Mark Harper insists there's a good chance the total number of registered voters won't fall at all.

Falconer goes on to praise the emergency brake as «indicative of a prime minister who is aware that there are significant numbers of communities in this country who feel that immigration from the European Union is making their position worse rather than better», and describes changes to child benefit and exclusion from ever closer union rated as «sensible... I don't attack the deal he's done».

This also adds to a growing list of conflicts of interest situations in which the Finance Minister seems to be entangled - the USD 2.25 billion bond, as well as the appointment of close relatives and his business associates to key positions at the Finance Ministry, the Bank of Ghana and a number of other state institutions.

I have experience as a pensions lawyer, in social security, foreign affairs, defence, I've served as a health minister, and have sat on a number of committees as well as negotiating in Brussels which meant I was working across government.

There may be a number of Lib Dem ministers who feel they will have a better chance of keeping their seats as backbenchers

«The Minister is an Igbo and knows full well that just as a count is not taken of the number of children a parent is blessed with in Igbo tradition, the same tradition holds the burial rites and attendant expenses even more sacred to warrant such display of figures.

The Tories would have done well to follow Labour's ruthless example in Brighton and limit the number and length of speeches by Cabinet ministers

The number of people coming to live in Britain for good has increased for the first time in two years, in a development leaving ministers deeply embarrassed.

As a Government energy adviser, a former Cabinet minister and father - in - law to George Osborne, Lord Howell should have known better on a number of fronts than to set himself up for the headlines which are sure to savage him in tomorrow's newspapers.

It also shows a rise in the number of people saying Mr Corbyn would make a better prime minister than Theresa May - his score rising to 22 % from 19 % a week ago and hers remaining static at 45 %.

A number of well - known figures have offered statements in defence of Andrew Mitchell in a libel trial over the «plebgate» row, with Lord Coe calling the former minister «a man of integrity».

The launch was attended by a number of high profile dignitaries including Mr AbebeAemro Selassie, Director, African Department of the IMF; Annalisa Fedelino, Mission Chief for Ghana; Natalia Koliandina, IMF Resident Representative for Ghana; Ghana's Senior Minister Yaw Osafo - Maafo; Finance Minister Ken Ofori - Atta, as well as the First and Second Deputy Governors of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Maxwell Opoku - Afari and Mrs Elsie Awadzi.

Back in the summer, David Cameron announced that a Tory Government would reduce the number of chauffeur - driven cars available to ministers — not a move that went down especially well with those eyeing up jobs after the election.

Mr Walker was backed up by fellow Tory MP Phillip Davies, who argued the number of ministers needed to fall as well in order to avoid diluting the power of backbenchers.

I'm amazed that Hague gets even a positive rating, never mind being rated number one - ok, he's been involved in the ConTreaty referendum (but giving a rather muddled line on whether or not there'd be any attempt to amend it post-ratification) but as Head of the Northern Board he's quiet at best and, speaking as a Loiner now living in Bradford, as «Shadow Minister» for Leeds and Bradford he's been utterly anonymous since his appointment.

«Denmark has a well - educated population, a number of leading life science companies, and an international research environment,» says Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

School standards minister Nick Gibb said: «There are now a record number of teachers in our schools — 15,500 more than in 2010 — but we want to build on this and help schools attract and keep the best and brightest people working in our schools.

It's good to hear that Minister Halfon is considering «toughening Ofsted» over schools careers advice.In 2013, House of Commons Education Committee, 23 January 2013 indicated «Too many schools lack the skills, incentives or capacity to fulfil the duty put on them without a number of changes being made.

There is some good news emerging through the smoke; reading at primary school has significantly improved — largely associated with the work of the reappointed Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb — and the number of children attending a good or outstanding school as judged by Ofsted has increased by almost 1.9 million since 2010.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters, «When we talk about the need for a fast - start fund for adaptation purposes, as well as mitigation purposes, it's to provide the immediate resources necessary for a number of those states to deal with the real challenges that their populations face in the here and now, starting in 2010, 2011, 2012, before, in fact, the post-Kyoto agreement would kick in.»

Following an announcement by climate change & environment minister Denis Naughten, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has introduced a number of changes to the Better Energy Homes grant scheme for retrofits including increased grants for external wall insulation and heating controls, and two measures which signal a dramatic change in emphasis: the elimination of grants for fossil fuelled boilers and the introduction of heat pump grants from 16 April.

I put it to Lord Bach that in his time at the MoJ there were a number of politically controversial cases, such as those over the treatment of Afghan detainees and the Gurkha immigration cases, that led to disagreements between ministers and the Legal Services Commission, which then administered legal aid: «We (he and Jack Straw, the then Lord Chancellor) resisted pretty well,» he says, the requests to interfere in such cases, «but it's not the sort of pressure a minister should be put under.