Sentences with phrase «of cabinet rank»

There are 156 schools in Russia for the training of coaches and athletic directors; the chairman of the All Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sport has the equivalent of cabinet rank.

Not exact matches

The president has steadily winnowed free - trade advocates from the ranks of his cabinet, and these measures are unlikely to draw the wall of opposition from Republicans that the metal tariffs did.

Shulkin, the only holdover from the Obama administration in Trump's Cabinet, said last week that he believed he was targeted and undermined by a group of VA staffers installed in the top ranks of the agency by the White House.

Hon. Kofi Buah, who is also the current ranking member on the Energy and Mines committe and Member of Parliament for Ellembele, in an interview with journalists on Thursday said: «President John Mahama led Cabinet into deciding to name the third FPSO after the ex-President, in recognition of the role that He played leading up to the 2007 discovery of oil in commercial quantities.»

Massed against him on one side are the ranks of MPs who opposed a winner isolated in a tiny minority in his own Shadow Cabinet, frontbenchers contradicting their leader at will after reluctantly joining his team.

There are many impressive figures coming through the younger ranks of Labour MPs — and some have already landed in the cabinet.

With the 2016 general elections just five months away, this paper can authoritatively report that, among those nursing ambition to step into the shoes of President Mahama include; cabinet and regional ministers, deputy ministers, high ranking government officials at the seat of government and some party gurus in the legislature.

Some people will argue that Mr Cameron is also lucky because none of his Cabinet big beasts has so far broken ranks to join the outers, as Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Barbara Castle and Peter Shore did in Harold Wilson's referendum in 1975.

The bitter cup of defeat was tasted by Labour's senior ranks when they made their way to the shadow cabinet room in the House of Commons.

The mostly friendly rivalry between him and Mario is no secret — how the son made sure to let people know that as a member of Bill Clinton's Cabinet, he'd attained a rank above that of mere governor; how the father dismissed the son's 252 - page 2010 campaign platform as a «pamphlet.»

Prominent Cabinet members have been accused of «rank hypocrisy» after apparently campaigning against government policy to shore up support in their own constituencies.

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said members of Jonathan's cabinet and ranking members of the Peoples Democratic Party, from the party's former chairman, Adamu Mu'azu, deceived the former president and told him outright lies about his chances.

Osinbajo was speaking on Thursday in Abuja at the Cabinet Retreat on the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP) and the 2018 Budget preparation, where the former high ranking official of the Malaysian government, Dr Idris Jaja spoke as a guest speaker.

None of the shadow cabinet have broken ranks or done anything to put forward an alternative vision for the party.

In 2008 he started his rise up the ranks, which culminated in attending the Cabinet as Minister of State for Transport.

While members of the shadow cabinet were less critical, one did break ranks to express their unhappiness.

Evie the cat joins Larry, Palmerston and Gladstone in the ranks of Westminster mousers, taking the Cabinet Office beat.

Leader of Lords Baroness Stowell salary is being supplemented to cabinet level rank with funds from Tory Party, not taxpayer.

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

But his decision to resign means there is a serious likelihood that other members of the cabinet will break ranks.

[56] In addition to his ministerial position Home was appointed to membership of the Privy Council, [56] an honour granted only selectively to ministers below cabinet rank.

In the cabinet appointed after the 2015 general election, exactly a third of all ministers permitted to attend cabinet were women — although they made up just 20 % of those appointed as ministers of state — the highest rank of junior minister.

Having notched up another record as the only member of the shadow cabinet and cabinet from 1997, Strathclyde broke through to the front rank when he was the beneficiary of a major internal Tory row over Lords reform in 1998.

Many of the Conservative front bench beneath the rank of Shadow Cabinet I have never heard of.

Overall, there are more stars in the junior ranks of the front bench (good sign for the future) than in the shadow cabinet which at times doesn't look hungry enough.

The chancellor will also take on the role of first secretary of state, making him the highest ranking cabinet minister after the prime minister.

No great movements in the latest rankings of the shadow cabinet, as voted by the grassroots.

Tomorrow a new Speaker will be elected, with signs that the previous favourite - Tory MP John Bercow, who has overwhelming Labour backing but almost no support within his own ranks - may have been weakened by the surprise candidacy of Margaret Beckett, a former cabinet minister.

(Andy is not top of the shadow cabinet rankings by a -LSB-...]

• Michael Gove has said that the European Union is encouraging extremism across Europe as he joined five other cabinet ministers in breaking ranks with David Cameron to campaign to take Britain out of the EU.

The figure of 52 wannabe Labour peers does not include the ranks of the as yet unennobled past or present cabinet ministers of the post-1997 era.

Debating some of the key issues with local people are three cabinet - ranking politicians from the major parties: - Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon - Michael Gove, shadow secretary of state for children, schools and families, and - Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable.

We still have a wealth of former Cabinet and lower - ranking Ministers, both in and out of Parliament - why not link each Cabinet Minister with a former Minister (who served in the Department, if possible) as an initial adviser on how to get to grips with the role?

The researchers note that countries scoring high in United Nations rankings of economic development tend to have smaller executive cabinets — Iceland, number one in development, has a cabinet of 12; the U.S., in 12th position, boasts a cabinet of 17 — although there are glaring exceptions: Australia, Canada and New Zealand score high on development and cabinet size, according to Science News.

The 69 - year - old Joshi, a former physics professor, is the first scientist to have held the rank of cabinet minister.

And the unions themselves didn't want to provoke a public split with a president their rank - and - file members adored, so they concentrated all their anger on Obama's Education secretaries, focusing their ire first on Arne Duncan, and then his successor John King, as though Obama himself were unaware of the reforms his Cabinet officials were carrying out on his behalf.

Prime minister elected by House of Representatives from its own ranks; members of both House of Representatives and Senate may be appointed to cabinet.

Nearly 180 organizations representing the interdependent arenas of science, academia and business are urging the next president to appoint a White House science adviser by Inauguration Day and give the position cabinet - level rank.

Almost all of these industry lobbyists have been plucked from the senior ranks of the Australian Public Service where they wrote briefs and cabinet submissions and advised ministers on energy policy.

Well, I completely joined the ranks with fellow bloggers - along with slipcovered white sofas, bookpage wreaths, and posting pics of my mantel, I too, removed a cabinet door just to see what would happen.