Sentences with phrase «minister hands himself powers»

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The last time I witnessed and experienced severe abuse at the hands of the Christian religion and its ministers in 2002, I vowed that if ever I would go back into ministry again, I would work to resist this power, teach others to do the same, and work to free people from the dehumanizing oppression of religion and the Church.

Housing minister Grant Shapps justified his decision to hand more power to social tenants by arguing that more people had come out to clean up after the riots than participated in the violence.

Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson has accused the Akufo - Addo government of bad faith over the order of 43 vehicles by the Mahama administration for the presidency few days to the handing over power.

«The Queen hands her powers to the prime minister and he can then exercise them.

Labour has failed in a bid to halt plans the Opposition claimed would hand sweeping powers to ministers to close hospitals.The Government saw off an amendment which would have cut Trust Special Administration from the Care Bill, winning a Commons vote 297 to 239, majority 58.

The president, however, holds ceremonial powers as executive powers lies in the hands of the Prime Minister or members of the cabinet.

The prime minister revealed plans to make the NHS more flexible, while placing power in the hands of staff and patients.

Andrew Percy, Conservative MP for Brigg and Goole, also shot down the claim of colleague Mark Spencer, MP for Sherwood, that the prime minister had obtained a «special status» for the UK in Europe, saying: «There is no special position... it's all legally unenforceable, not a single power is returned and a new treaty handing more power over is being worked up.»

A potential downside of the Brexit process is that powers repatriated from the EU might accrue overwhelmingly in the hands of UK ministers and Whitehall, with little Parliamentary scrutiny.

MPs will scrutinise new laws less, under plans to bypass debate on the floor of the House of Commons and hand power to ministers

Term limit on consecutive election for a president or a prime minister is just made for a simple reason - To stop too much power falling into hands of a single person.

Magistrates are set to be handed new powers to sentence more convicted criminals under reforms unveiled by justice minister Damian Green today.

Rather than let know - it - all managers make decisions about which resources should go where, ministers proposed handing the power to commission services to consortia of GPs.

The prime minister is expected to offer a referendum to voters after renegotiation of powers in Brussels but several obstacles stand in his way — not least winning a Commons majority and getting European states to agree to the negotiations while they have their hands full with the eurozone crisis.

Adeyeye, a former Minister of State for Works, claimed that the PDP defeated Boko Haram before it handed over power in 2015, adding that it also reduced kidnapping and other anti-social vices in the country and there was peace in Nigeria as of May 2015.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

The former Energy and Climate Change Secretary also gave his backing to handing Scottish ministers limited tax powers but opposed the «full fiscal autonomy» demanded by Alex Salmond.»

The Conservative leader wants to reduce the power of the prime minister and government and hand it to parliament and «the man and the woman in the street».

Also on hand to join his successor was former Governor Babatunde Fashola who is now the Minister of Power, Works and Housing.

Schools minister Nick Gibb was quizzed about Mr Smith's departure in July during the committee stage of the education bill, which is set to hand more powers to RSCs.

«To take away decision - making powers from elected ministers and put them, without debate, into the hands of unaccountable and opaque regional schools commissioners would be totally unacceptable.

On the other hand, the Ancient Minister started turning characters into trophies to be able to harness their powers, after that detonates bombs that suck pieces of the world back into the his kingdom of Subspace.

I believe that Canadians» faith in government has never been lower — that unprecedented power has been concentrated in the hands of the Prime Minister and his office and that our government operates in a culture of secrecy, control, and hyper - partisanship.