Sentences with phrase «of cabinet positions»

Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions including Health Secretary and Education Secretary.

As Justin Trudeau quipped, he filled exactly half of his cabinet positions with women «because it's 2015.»

Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary.

He was seen as unobtrusive and inscrutable and had held a number of Cabinet positions without attracting much adverse attention.

He held a number of cabinet positions under the administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Groeneveld was a well - liked MLA, snubbed by Stelmach and stripped of his cabinet position.

Not exact matches

While previous presidents, including President Obama, have raised the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to a Cabinet - level position, Trump should continue his out - of - the - box thinking and make a small business Cabinet position even more front and center in his own administration.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

Speaking on the BBC's World At One, Crabb said: «If they want to take a position that is different from that of the official government line, then they should not be in the cabinet.

A Latino finally was appointed to a Cabinet position in 1988, at the tail end of President Ronald Reagan's second term.

Rousseff has not been implicated in any of the scandals, although she may have made one all on her own when she created a cabinet position for Lula da Silva in an effort to shield him from prosecution.

The head of the SBA was elevated to a cabinet - level position during Obama's first term in office.

With a new U.S. president around the corner, there is talk that her next step could be into a cabinet position — Secretary of Commerce?

During the Conservatives» decade - long reign, Jason Kenney held almost every key cabinet position, including minister of employment.

In 2012, President Obama called for folding the SBA into the Department of Commerce — even after he elevated the SBA administrator to a cabinet level position.

The government of Malcolm Turnbull moved quickly to differentiate itself from that of Tony Abbott with some key cabinet announcements — including the reintroduction of the position of a minster for cities and the built environment.

No formal announcement, no position papers had been prepared; significant cabinet officers, such as the secretaries of Defense and State, were caught off - guard, as were his party leaders in the Congress.

A high - level Mexican cabinet delegation left for meetings in Washington, and made its position clear when asked whether it would keep negotiating under the threat of withdrawal under Article 2205.

On balance, Lighthizer looks like one of the Trump cabinet members who will seek to moderate the new president's more extreme rhetorical positions and channel them through the much - despised mechanisms of the Washington and global establishment.

Frank Oberle: Promoted from Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities to a full - cabinet position as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs.

He held four cabinet posts under Premier Klein's government: in 1997 Stelmach became Minister of Agriculture, Food and Development; in May 1999, he was shuffled to the Infrastructure Ministry and later became Minister of Transport; and in 2004, he became the Alberta Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, a position he held until he resigned in June 2006 to become a party leadership candidate.

Tim started his career at the Department of Finance, Canada, and then held positions at the Privy Council Office — where he was Secretary to various Cabinet committees — and Agriculture and Agri - food Canada.

Giuliani had been widely expected to join Trump's administration but was passed over for secretary of state, the position he badly wanted, and eventually was left without a Cabinet post.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

The Catholic position had become so clear, indeed, that there had been calls from anti-Catholic quarters for Ms. Kelly to resign, on the basis of rumours that she had been trying to weaken or delay the regulations: as Toby Helm, the Telegraph's chief political correspondent had reported the previous October, under the headline «Kelly «must resign over delay to gay rights law»», «A fierce Cabinet battle has broken out over gay rights after Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, delayed plans that would penalise organisations — such as hotels — for denying their services tohomosexuals.

Kucinich even proposed a new cabinet position: The Department of Peace.

I don't think anyone has forgotten or missed that we have been asking for D / M or C / B's and a striker last season, it is the very reason why so many supporters are asking for his resignation becouse it's now been two seasons we are playing with shortage or players below par and as always those positions let us down, if he had just bolster those areas (which the whole world was shouting about even our enemies were telling us day and day out) we wouldn't be so angry with him and maybe we could of had extra silverwear in our display cabinet.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was considered a controversial addition to President Donald Trump's cabinet, and if her recent comments are any indication, people are right to be upset with her being in her position right now.

As your baby becomes more mobile, allowing him to explore lower cabinets, shelves, or drawers allows him to practice reaching and grasping while also challenging him in positions of hands - and - knees and tall - kneeling.

As I shared on social media last week, President Donald Trump has filled his Secretary of Agriculture post, the last of his open cabinet positions.

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

Interestingly, Radice is more critical of Attlee than some biographers and, while giving him credit for being a wily politician who allowed the cabinet big beasts to flourish, makes clear his view that he also adeptly defended his own position.

Only Boris Johnson is really banging the drum for a very different sort of Britain, but his position is largely based on rhetoric and tone — hamstrung as he is by his position in the Cabinet.

A new president appoints a number of individuals to serve as part of their cabinet, but most of these positions require Senate confirmation.

He called for the creation of a new cabinet position with responsibility for counter terrorism, saying it was the only way to «inject energy and drive into dealing with this serious problem».

Corbyn's position is finally settled even if the thorny issue of shadow cabinet elections is not.

While an MP might owe his or her place in parliament, or even cabinet, not due to patronage from above, but because he was an NUM MP, or had backing from the public sector unions, or the London Labour Party etc, s / he could enter into those discussions pre-vote from a position of real stregnth.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

January's offered much but delivered less; the occupants of key Cabinet positions remained in place after all.

In 2009, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport, a position he held until 2010.

After the revised cabinet was announced yesterday, we take a look at the quirks of four MPs with new positions.

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

The city mayor would have the same position in the combined authority cabinet as other city leaders, regardless of how they are elected.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that had she been a more expendable minister - Mark Garnier, for instance - or if the Prime Minister was in a position of strength, Patel would have faced a Cabinet Office inquiry at best, and her P45 at worst.

He appears incapable of articulating an obvious truth — for every Cabinet position, the number of well - qualified men considerably outnumbers the number of well - qualified women.

The letter was also clear that a final position on all aspects of the project would only be arrived at after discussions with all stakeholders, subject also to Cabinet and Parliamentary approvals.

However, most of the 35 already occupy senior shadow cabinet positions.

Put simply, if the proportion of women in the Cabinet, on major company boards etc is increased, this will entail the appointment of women who are less well - qualified than the best male candidates for such positions.

The education secretary offered an almost Shakespearian assessment of his fellow Cabinet minister as the Liberal Democrats continued to consolidate their position in the Eastleigh by - election.

Which includes the US and I presume many other countries by delegating reviews of sentencing guidelines to some cabinet position.