Sentences with phrase «minister earlier called»

The prime minister earlier called for public vigilance and said the police should be allowed to investigate the incident.

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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas earlier told reporters that the G7 would formally call on Moscow to contribute to solving the crisis in Syria, where Russia and Iran are backing Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

Just a day earlier, the French prime minister and European Commission officials met separately with Facebook, Google, Twitter Inc and other companies to demand faster action on what the commission called «online terrorism incitement and hate speech.»

Among the entourage of government officials and prominent business leaders who accompanied Prime Minister Stephen Harper on an early - August trade mission to Brazil was the chief executive officer of a relatively obscure Canadian company called Weatherhaven.

Earlier this week, Saudi State Minister for Gulf Affairs Thamer al - Sabhan sharply criticized Hezbollah, calling for its «toppling» and promising «astonishing developments» in the coming days during an interview with the Lebanese TV station MTV.

Last week, embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak announced a cabinet shuffle, including sacking Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin after he called on Najib to explain the controversy surrounding a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report earlier this month that nearly $ 700 million from quasi-sovereign wealth fund One Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB) was deposited into the prime minister's personal bank aMinister Najib Razak announced a cabinet shuffle, including sacking Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin after he called on Najib to explain the controversy surrounding a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report earlier this month that nearly $ 700 million from quasi-sovereign wealth fund One Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB) was deposited into the prime minister's personal bank aMinister Muhyiddin Yassin after he called on Najib to explain the controversy surrounding a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report earlier this month that nearly $ 700 million from quasi-sovereign wealth fund One Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB) was deposited into the prime minister's personal bank aminister's personal bank accounts.

Earlier this month, the U.K.'s minister in charge of exiting the EU, David Davis, testified at a House committee that, to this point, the government has not carried out a full assessment of the implications on the economy were Britain to leave in a so - called hard Brexit.

Trump's businesswoman daughter Ivanka joined her father's telephone call with Argentine President Mauricio Macri earlier this month and attended a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, raising questions of possible conflicts of interest.

The foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, who had earlier called Trump's Miami speech in June «a grotesque spectacle,» emphasized one point above others: The United States had presented no evidence whatsoever that the Cubans had done anything but try to help investigate the problem.

Announced on Tuesday, the Cabinet reshuffle involved the sacking of Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin after he called on Najib to explain the controversy surrounding a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report earlier this month that revealed nearly $ 700 million from quasi-sovereign wealth fund One Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was deposited into the Prime Minister's personal bank accounts.

To this end, and in line with earlier calls for employee representation made by Prime Minister Theresa May in 2016, the revised code suggests that companies should either assign a non-executive director to represent employees, create an employee advisory council, or nominate a director from the workforce.

The bearable thing about the crises of integrity that often occur in early and mid career is that there is still time to compensate for what seems to be going or has gone amiss in the working out of the minister's calling.

One aspect of early intervention is what might be called the availability of the minister — meaning more the attitude than the situation.

Every Christian is a cleric, Luther proclaimed in one of his earliest treatises, The Freedom of a Christian, and those who «are now boastfully called popes, bishops, and lords» are in reality «ministers, servants, and stewards, who are to serve the rest in the ministry of the word»» servants of the servants of God.

In Zürich, the early practice of calling and ordaining a minister, according to an Order for Preachers written by Leo Jud and Henry Bullinger, was as follows: A commission of examiners consisting of two ministers, two members of the City Council, and two laymen experienced in the reading of the Bible, examined the candidates who either had been proposed or had applied to be called to a vacant ministerial office.

Indeed, in early Protestantism, ordination was nothing else than the confirmation of the calling and election of the minister.

His very sensible call for reform comes 10 years after the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council concluded that the lack of share options was a problem for early - stage companies and a barrier to growing new technology companies in Australia.

Early on Wednesday, French Minister for Sport Laura Flessel had called for «unified» action to stamp out racism in football following reports that Paul Pogba and Ousmane Dembele were abused during the match in St. Petersburg, while Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) had asked for a FIFA investigation, which the governing body confirmed later in the day.

The prime minister replied that he welcomed the presenter's pledge earlier in the season and called him out for refusing to stand by it in recent days:

May is a prime minister who called an early election and lost an overall majority.

While in NYC, Trump will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, with whom he infamously abruptly ended a phone call early in is presidency.

But fleetingly Cameron became a reformer and introduced an act that makes it very difficult for a Prime Minister to call an early election.

Typically, the prime minister can not decide to call an early election alone.

The FTPA is therefore best understood as an Act that restricts the prime minister's discretion to call early elections, not as an Act that fixes the parliamentary term.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

There is no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

At prime minister's questions earlier, he came face - to - face with Tony Blair, calling for a cross-party approach to improving education.

A over a hundred MPs from different parties have signed the following Early Day Motion (number 862), calling for a release of a report on the arrest of Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green:

Ed Miliband was accused of «opportunism» at prime minister's questions earlier, but argued that tonight's vote was an «opportunity to get a mandate» from the Commons to call for a real - terms cut.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and prime minister David Cameron held bilateral talks earlier today, winning stronger support for the UK's call for a real - terms freeze from Berlin.

Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, appears to have backtracked from his earlier harsh call on former president John Dramani Mahama to vacate his current property in Accra, alleged to be sited on Military land.

May has repeatedly rejected calls for an early election since becoming leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, which made the timing extremely unexpected.

Let's not forget that, unlike previous prime ministers, Cameron will not be able to call an early election at a convenient time, unless he changes the law and abandons the Fixed - term Parliaments Act — which his government introduced.

Prime Minister Theresa May made a surprise U-turn today and called for an early General Election - despite repeatedly ruling it out in the past.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

The Prime Minister called for an early general election on Tuesday just weeks after starting the formal process of Britain leaving the EU, causing exasperation amongst some EU leaders.

Jeremy Corbyn has explicitly disclosed for the first time that he will instruct his MPs to back an early general election if the Prime Minister wants to call one.

Whatever the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act may say, the next Tory prime minister may decide to call an early general election, possibly later this year, when Labour will still be in chaos.

At least 17 people were killed and 90 wounded in the shelling of the Jabalia Elementary Girls School early on Wednesday, but instead of slowing the pace of the military offensive it appears to have encouraged it, with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling up another 16,000 Israeli army reservists.

The rebellious backbench Tory MP stepped up his calls for the immediate breakup of the coalition after Liberal Democrat ministers voted with Labour against boundary changes earlier this week.

Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, former Defence Minister under the Mahama administration, has called for early congress in the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The trip also allowed Trump to reset his relationship with Australia after a contentious phone call with the country's prime minister earlier this year.

The prime minister has insisted she will not call an early election — despite her slim majority and the Tories» commanding and consistent polling advantage over Labour.

His early call for ministers to end the practice of either announcing or leaking their plans to the media before the Commons appeared welcome but, thus far, has proved impossible to stamp out.

At prime minister's questions earlier in the day, Theresa May also dismissed calls for a pause in the national introduction of universal credit to address problems with the system, but said the decision to scrap charges for a claimants» phone helpline showed ministers were listening.

Earlier on Wednesday, Gauke said he would end the helpline charge for claimants calling on mobile phones, an issue raised by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at last week's prime minister's questions, calling it proof that ministers were listening to concerns.

But these results will add weight to those within the party who are calling on the Prime Minister to call an early election.

If Mr Cameron can't turn that round, and if the general election results are exactly in line with our poll, then the Tory leader would unquestionably become prime minister, but he may need to call an early second election to seek a clearer mandate from Britain's voters.

After Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she is calling for an early general election Labour and the Lib Dems started to prepare.

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