Sentences with phrase «much time ministers»

Considering how much time ministers and lay leaders invest in administrative activities it is important that whatever creative potential they hold be realized in practice.

He and his fellow Oxford Methodists gave significant portions of their income to succor the poor and spent much time ministering to condemned prisoners (after a lifetime of lavish giving, Wesley died a relatively poor man).

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The Prime Minister and his finance minister spend much of their time reminding the country's biggest vote bank — the middle class — that it is not doing as well as it shMinister and his finance minister spend much of their time reminding the country's biggest vote bank — the middle class — that it is not doing as well as it shminister spend much of their time reminding the country's biggest vote bank — the middle class — that it is not doing as well as it should be.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier Christy Clark insisted Wednesday it's still possible her much - hyped vision for liquefied natural gas could start bringing in cash in three years» time, a day after her own finance minister appeared to temper those expectations.

Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau discusses the country's new fiscal policy which entails borrowing three times as much as promised before the election.

Voters like you and I couldn't get that much face time with our representatives, let alone the Prime Minister's top adviser and confidant.

The notorious debt - to - income ratio, at a record high, has been cited time and again by Finance Minister Flaherty and Carney as a sign consumers have taken on too much debt.

(One difference: Harper's selfless belief in fixed election dates, which, MacDonald says for the umpteenth time, take much valuable leverage away from the Prime Minister.)

Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said that was so much confusion over the alternative versions that there was no time for preparation.

Possible effect: Many a minister who could make it when a wife filled in the weak places in his ministry will have a much more difficult time without that assistance.

«Every time ministers talk about extremism they seem to want to go much wider than tackling terrorists and their sympathisers.

Its defect lies much less in what it tries to assert — careful training, attentiveness to the person, taking adequate time, and the like — than in what it denies — that people can also be helped in many less formal ways and that it is the inherent business of the minister to use the range of ways open to him in his representative capacity.

This same minister had probably experienced a similar crisis early in his career, but it came at a time of life that receives much less public attention.

A part time consulting job to supplement our income led to another full time job and a leave of absence and all I know is that while he was ministering I saw him less than I do now even though he is working in LA (I live on Lake Superior) and he is so much happier.

One minister asked his officials to fill out questionnaires indicating how much time they felt he should spend each week on each area of his work.

That is why Christians are called to minister to those around them, because we know that at one time we to we're lost As to the middle part, it is a valid point, however the reason Christians are «supposed» to be saved is because they realize their sin and how much God loves them.

I was a believer for almost 50 years and a minister for much of that time..

His harangue hasn't changed in our twenty - year acquaintance, but this time it occurred to me that there was a tinge of conceit to it» that he resented the idea of being ministered to by people who, in all likelihood, were too inclined toward curial - obedience and therefore couldn't possibly have much to say to his finely tuned sensibilities.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

They asked Nick Clegg, who has so much spare compassion he even found time to defend the prime minister this week.

Just ask yourself one simple question: in the Prime Minister's office, in Tory high command, how much of their time do they spend worrying about the prospect of a Labour victory at the present time?

But that the concerns over Facebook and Twitter were clearly overblown (Prime Minister David Cameron at the time considered «restricting» social media services) does not mean that digital technologies played no role — they are, after all, integral to much of what we do, legally or otherwise, today.

But if we succeed in making a step - change in transport connectivity between the great northern cities, easing congestion, increasing capacity and reducing journey times, then ministers succeed when it comes to the Holy Grail of rebalancing the national economy and developing a much - needed counterweight to London and the south - east.

«She has really decided to go for it now, and having had the last time to think about what she stands for, will be a much better candidate,» a former cabinet minister told Bush.

They seem to spend much of their time having their ideas nicked by the other two parties - the firing of MPs for being rubbish springs to mind - and the abuse that Nick Clegg receives each week in the House of Commons during prime minister's questions illustrates perfectly the general disdain the Lib Dems are treated with by the bigger boys (and girls).

For as much as Churchill's Secret War seems to zero in on decisions taken by the war - time prime minister and his adviser Lord Cherwell, the racism and sheer odium of both of whom is on stark display in the evidence presented by Mukerjee, this book is much more of an indictment of what colonialism was really about than the title suggests.

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

We were promised by Conservative ministers that the relaxation of restrictions on supermarket trading were not going to be a Trojan horse for permanent change, but perhaps spending too much time with Nick Clegg has given the Prime Minister a taste for dishonesty.

As former Labour minister Andrew Adonis notes on the book's back cover: «To paraphrase Churchill, never in recent times has so much damage been inflicted by so few on so many.»

Bridges» article is being viewed as an attack on the prime minister's approach to politics, at a time when the coalition is wrestling with questions on Europe and about how much to make the rich contribute to its deficit reduction strategy.

When I was appointed, the prime minister specially said to me, «We have some very real problems in our steel industry, and I want you to devote a large amount of your time to solving those problems as much as you can».»

I am two and a half stone lighter which, as a former shadow public health minister in the Scottish Parliament, is just as well, given how much time we witter away about taking personal responsibility for one's own health!

Tony Blair was also the first PM to have no government experience since Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and the first Leader of the Opposition to have no government experience since the post was created in 1935 - Neil Kinnock was a PPS at the end of the Callaghan Government and John Smith was a Junior minister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govminister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govMinister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour government.

After the embarrassing confusion both from former Europe spokesman Ed Davey and former EU minister Chris Bryant last night on Question Time on how much the sum came to, we can allow ourselves the luxury here of a little ball park latitude.

But by the time of president Bush's last visit to the UK the prime minister had reverted back to British type, endlessly parroting Washington's lines and praising his American counterpart rather too much for anyone's liking.

The former prime minister has been into Westminster only a handful of time since 2010, much to the irritation and amusement of Conservative MPs.

Prime Minister May, who commended President Buhari for the much he has been doing on improving trade and business for Nigeria, noted that it was also time to boost intra-Commonwealth

During her time as a shadow Treasury and then Communities minister, she established how much the ministerial cars cost through a series of parliamentary questions.

Both the Home Secretary, and the Prime Minister, have attributed the low voter turnout in the PCCs elections to the fact that «it takes time to explain a new post» and expect turnout to be «much higher next time round».

June 2009 though has the advantages for Labour that they can save money by combining Local, EU and General Election campaigns and also maximise Labour turnout in the EU and Local Elections, a much improved performance in the EU and 2009 Local Elections along with a solid General Election victory and Labour dissidents in parliament will largely fall quiet for some time and the next parliament will be off to a good start for the Prime Minister.

... Prime minister - elect Abbott agreed and stressed his full support for the United Kingdom, saying that he very much looked forward to the closest possible cooperation during his time in office.»

Another period piece is Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour,» with Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill at the beginning of his time as Prime Minister — interesting to see right now in light of John Lithgow's recent Golden - Globe - nominated and Emmy - winning star turn as a much older (and taller!)

There's Hugh Grant, who is still Prime Minister and still married to the lovely Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson and his much older son played by Thomas Brodie - Sangster, and Rowan Atkinson who is still taking his sweet time at the check out counter.

Teachers in England are spending too much time marking and giving detailed feedback on pupils» homework, according to Schools Minister Nick Gibb.

Teachers are spending too much time over-marking pupils» homework, Schools Standards Minister Nick Gibb has said.

«Pupils spend too much time thinking about exams and re-sits of exams that encourage a «learn and forget» approach to studying,» the minister said.

But listeners will be directed to a website which will be presumably much less reticent on such matters, if the Friends website at the time of the 2006 election, with its vicious attacks on Liberal environment minister Stephane Dion, is anything to go by.

modern diplomacy Public - Private Dialogue at IRENA's 8th Assembly highlights what governments and businesses can do to unlock investment in renewable energy «We find ourselves in a time when scaling - up renewable energy investment makes sense, even when not much of anything else makes sense,» Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council told a ballroom filled with ministers, diplomats, parliamentarians and...

We've seen this happen before in recent times; when Stephen Harper became Canada's prime minister, his anti-science right - wing administration did much the same thing, gagging scientists, including climate scientists, from talking to the media or public.

Much time, too, was given by the media to an odd letter sent by Roberts to former Australian Primer Minister Julie Gillard.