Sentences with phrase «of civil servants of»

The Minister who made the disclosure at an interactive session with newsmen on Tuesday shortly after he met with the Association of Civil Servants of Nigeria in Abuja said the programme would enlighten Nigerians on the need to positively change their attitude and ensure they do the right things.

Alone among his colleagues, he dressed with the careful pinstriped conformity of a civil servant of the Thirties while, with his strong bony face, mottled cheeks and hair with the resilient waywardness of straw, he looked like a farmer.

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The staff comprises highly skilled civil servants who are protected from the type of political meddling common in other countries.

The second is I've found a handful of senior civil servants in Ottawa and Queen's Park who are very open - minded about updating policies.

Canadians have gotten used to the idea that they can usually afford to retire in their early 60s (except for civil servants, who can usually retire earlier because of generous public - sector pensions).

«We're kind of like a British civil servant,» he says.

They are mostly running on their 2014 budget, which they had an army of civil servants assist in drafting and costing the plan.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

The cost of all those civil servants, politicians, teachers, firefighters, police officers and armed forces explains much of the overspending and indebtedness of the government sector, in the authors» view.

Management by mandarin To run his fiefdom and its business holdings, Lee relies heavily on an elite cadre of about fifty senior civil servants.

Earlier this month, BI reported that the Home Office was lacking experienced civil servants who are able of making complex decisions about post-Brexit immigration.

Back in November, an unsolicited memo from Deloitte suggested that Britain needed anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 more civil servants to handle the workload of exiting the EU.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

When Russia decriminalized domestic violence in February 2017, civil servants tasked with protecting women in the country's far east were dismayed by the new vulnerability of their wards.

But is it right that a civil servant will be left to dole out up to $ 500,000 to each plaintiff without BP having the right of appeal, from a BP escrow that has no ultimate cap.

They're the policemen, they're the firemen, they're the teachers, they're the civil servants of America today who have their money in public pension funds being managed in the U.S. equity market.

Other attendees included academics, federal and provincial civil servants, and representatives of business and professional organizations.

Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

One of only a few cities to have a designated innovation district, this 140 acre radius is composed of businesses, organizations and nonprofits that apppeal to the city's entrepreneurs, creatives, civil servants and professionals.

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Democracy depends on a wide range of institutions: political parties; courts, police, and media; non-partisan civil servants and arms - length regulators; and universities with experts who pursue truth wherever evidence may lead.

Factors predictive of long - term coronary heart disease mortality among 10,059 male Israeli civil servants and municipal employees.

Business owners» views on tax fairness is also demonstrated in their reactions to certain statements: More than three - quarters (77 %) agree with the statement «Government civil servants get the biggest breaks by far because of their tax - supported pensions.»

Zambia used revenue from copper to increase the salaries of civil servants but did not invest in potential growth industries, like tourism and agriculture.

Unfortunately, this knowledge is often denigrated by «blood - and - guts» exporters who wrongly claim that civil servants know little about the day - to - day realities of exporting.

The financial and taxation committee presented four proposals to civil servants with the ministries of Finance and Natural Resources in late December, and is scheduling meetings with MPs for January in advance of the budget presentation.

You can also apply if you're a Crown employee (such as a member of the armed forces or civil servant) serving abroad, or the partner of a Crown employee.

«I'm skeptical the projected cuts can be obtained through attrition and cutting back on paper clips,» said Kevin Milligan, economist at the University of British Columbia, who projects cutbacks to civil servant wages, benefits or pensions along possible layoffs.

XINXIANG, China The bright lights of Beijing or Shanghai have never held much allure for Wu Tongxu, a 24 - year - old civil servant earning a modest salary in the nondescript city of Xinxiang in China's central Henan province.

The financial and taxation committee presented four proposals to civil servants with the Finance and Natural Resources ministries in late December, and has scheduled meetings with MPs this month in advance of the budget presentation.

European Central Lender board member floats the concept of an «IOU» method to pay civil servants if nation operates out of euros & #thirteen & #thirteen & # 13 & #thirteen & # 13 Photo: bloomberg & # 13 & # 13 Greece could commence employing a «parallel currency» to pay out its civil servants if it runs out of...

Greece needs to begin paying monthly salaries to civil servants and retirees on Monday, and faces a string of obligations leading up to a $ 770 million IMF payment on May 12.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

The job of civil servants is to speak truth to power, and yes occasionally suffer the consequences.

Islam recognizes that the right of private discretion belongs to any individual who possesses the capacity for clear thinking and study, whether man or woman, ruler or subject, leading government civil servant or private citizen.

Pannenberg was born in 1928, in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), the son of a German civil servant.

«She also brings strong experience of parish and cathedral life, and sees her vocational experience as nurse, civil servant, priest and bishop as a totality.»

Their English contemporaries, by contrast, included country parsons like Charles Kingsley and George Crabbe, civil servants like Trollope, and inspectors of schools like Matthew Arnold.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

And A.M. Juster is the best senior civil servant of whom American poetry can boast.

The upper hierarchy, none of whom agreed to be quoted, acquiesces in the government's denial and cites examples of Christians who in the past have served as senior judges, civil servants and ambassadors.

I personally believe that the helpers (pastors, employees, civil servants, clients, etc.) usually become the victims, and for a lone victim to stand up to an entire institution for the sake of his or her own health is often quite costly.

Those of whom we know anything seem rather to have been petits bourgeois: four of them were «partners» in a small family firm owning and operating fishing - boats and employing labour [Luke 5:1 - 9]; one had been a minor civil servant [Mark 2:14].

Gargantuan international conferences replete with diplomats, «international civil servants,» various «nongovernmental organization» (NGO) representatives, and the world press have been a staple feature of world politics since the Second World War.

If charities allow themselves to be used as «extra civil servants» by governments, they will signal the death of their organizations, resulting in an unfortunate loss for many communities.

Some charities may think the government link a great deal, but Ms. Arrison suggests they think again: «By accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil society.

And, coming from a family of NYC police and civil servants, I pray for the police there, including Officer Wilson and his family.

I come from a family of civil servants: my uncle was a NYC police officer and my grandfather a fire battalion chief.

Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf of the parents.

She continued her career as a civil servant, serving in the criminal department of the Home Office from 1968 to 1979, when she decided to give writing her full attention.