Sentences with phrase «ministers had no control over it»

Cable said the target was wrong because ministers had no control over it.

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It appears that in addition to his role as defense minister, he will now have indirect control over the head of National Guard and the interior minister, who oversees internal security.

Prime Minister Theresa May's government appears to be moving towards a «hard Brexit,» whereby Britain would regain control over its borders at the expense of access to the single market.

The government, which has centralized control over resource development in the Prime Minister's Office, made the changes after lobbying from pipeline companies that portrayed the fisheries law as «onerous.»

Canada's next prime minister will not have full control over his promise to boost the economy; fulfilling those promises will require understanding the world's suddenly tricky economic currents.

Or, in Traversian: «The trend line from Pierre Trudeau to Stephen Harper has been steady: Influence over the amorphous, frustratingly horizontal federal machinery concentrates power in the Prime Minister's Office where issues that matter are managed with command - and - control authority.»

Poloz himself has no control over the actions of the markets. And his response to any macroeconomic damage that results is limited to monetary policy adjustments (the next Bank of Canada interest rate decision is September 9), over which the Prime Minister is not supposed to have sway.

When plans for a major naval operation had been approved by the proper agencies, to what extent did the Naval Minister exercise control over the manner of conduct of that operation?

«Because you don't want to be in a situation where you no longer have a majority, you can't control confidence in the House of Commons and the other party can take over... The prime minister might then call a general election in order to avoid being in a situation in which she's potentially yielding power without a general election to a coalition of Tory opponents.»

Speaking on «Alhaji and Alhaji» on Radio Gold Saturday, the former Sports minister said Ghanaians have no reason to entertain fear over the existence of the two former terror suspects in the country since the President is in total control of the security of the state.

He'd even struggle to control his own government ministers as they fought over policy and budgets.

The Deputy Prime Minister, who this week alone has dismissed calls for a free vote on gay marriage, at least for his own party and ruled out emergency border controls when the Euro collapses, will go on the offensive over the links between the «other» two parties and the Murdoch media empire.

The coalition government has appointed an excessive number of ministers because it wants to increase its control over the Commons, MPs have claimed.

Opposition leader Ed Miliband claimed the prime minister had lost control of his party as they argued over Labour and Conservatives policies about the European Union (EU).

Ed Miliband claimed the prime minister had lost control of his party as they argued over Labour and Tory policies about the European Union (EU).

Eurosceptic ministers, liberated from collective ministerial responsibility for the first time over the weekend, have started to set out the case they will make in the months ahead for Britain taking back control of its destiny outside the European Union.

Although I had difficult exchanges with the home secretary Theresa May and prime minister over immigration controls on non-EU students and skilled workers, almost all Conservative colleagues and ministers agreed, at least privately, that their policies were seriously damaging to business, universities and the wider national economic interest.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Plans for a single environment agency to control pollution in England and Wales have been shelved because of disagreements between ministers over the scope and scale of the new body.

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has been committed to making public schools in Australia independent, saying the more control a principal has over a school the better that school performs.

In a press conference held on Tuesday, environment minister José Sarney Filho said the reduction showed Brazil had regained control over deforestation in the Amazon as a result of more effective enforcement of the law.

While Minister of Education, he created regional boards of education as a response to the huge scale of the Northwest Territories and the desire of residents of its various regions to have more control over their communities.

The Prime Minister proclaimed in his speech opening the Australian Reconciliation Convention in Melbourne on 26 May 1997 that «Australians of this generation should not be required to accept guilt and blame for the past actions and policies over which they had no control».

Now all we have to do is educate our Finance Minister about usury and how he can control it by putting a ceiling on credit card interest that floats at, say, even 12 % over the Bank of Canada prime rate!