Sentences with phrase «of civil servants who»

Those magnificent generations of civil servants who have come before, many with those same robes, are waiting on you now.

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has lauded the sacrifices of civil servants who endured financial constraints during the recently concluded state's civil service reforms.

These changes will send out a clear message to the army of civil servants who govern our lives: you might just be able to get away with it.

Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics said, for the last one year, the number of civil servants who have collected bribes is on the increase.

You know Osun State is a civil service state and the bulk of our people are dependent on the salaries of the civil servants who are yet to receive their October salary.

Criticism is made of civil servants who acquiesced in the union vested interests but equally he praises those who helped him — no blanket condemnation of experts — please note Michael Gove.

John Heard is almost tolerable as the nice guy / aspiring stalker of a civil servant who falls for and aggressively pursues a married co-worker and is willing to follow her to the ends of the earth or the gynecologist's office (whichever is further).

Nor will it include the CO2 cost of the civil servant who processes the tax return of the wind developer making vast sums of money.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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).

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.

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.

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

A successor to Simon Kirby — who was thought to be Britain's highest paid civil servant on a salary of # 750,000 — is currently being sought.

With recent staff changes in the DfT, the BMF also warn that it also means that there is now no one senior from the DfT, either civil servant or minister, who was involved at the outset of the review, a review set up to address a revised testing regime that had seen new tests introduced by the DSA and hundreds of test centres close.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

In the early 1970s he joined Rothschild's Central Policy Review Staff at No 10 in the Heath government where he learnt to admire Heath and make contacts and friends with a generation of the ablest young civil servants who would rise to power and influence from which he benefitted.

The film is subtle in its appreciation of Mandela's abiding greatness: his popular and personal touch, showing how he insisted on having white protection officers among suspicious black ones and in keeping on the white civil servants who had served his white predecessor and who feared the sack from their new black president.

Similarly, reports and parliamentary answers are still full of this kind of nonsensical jargon, suggesting the rhetoric of ministers is not filtering down to the civil servants who draft such publications.

«The procurement of contracts are often done centrally, by civil servants in Whitehall who don't know what's best for a particular prison.

The one category of civil servants which increased substantially in number and paybill over the past five years was «special advisers,» the political appointees who work closely with ministers (Figure 3).

The Akufo Addo government's inexplicable belief in the «job for the boys» philosophy also threatens to render valuable human resources in the various MDA's redundant following the engagement of a legion of special assistants and advisors who wield more influence and power than very senior public and civil servants in many MDAs despite possessing limited qualifications.

He believes the man has what it takes to put the fear of God in both public and civil servants who may want to engage in acts of corruption.

Carlina is the daughter of a hardworking single mother who is a dedicated civil servant and proud union member.

The NLC President, however, expressed shock that rather than call for the sanction of governors who failed to properly utilise their bail - out funds, and creating misery to the people as well as overheating the polity, Okupe would be calling for the «blood of hapless civil servants».

Committee chair James Arbuthnot said his group of MPs believed the skills of military personnel meant they were flexibly employable - in contrast to the views of senior MoD civil servants, who have argued it is civilian staff who are flexible and service personnel who are not.

Ministers appointed a head of the Student Loans Company, who was later sacked, despite concerns raised by civil servants during recruitment, Whitehall's spending watchdog has disclosed.

«But he will have his work cut out in convincing ministers of this new approach, who are going to have to change their attitude towards civil servants, public bodies and unions if they want this strategy to succeed.»

Nevertheless, The Whitehall Effect is a lively and stimulating read that warrants the attention of every civil servant, politician and citizen who takes an interest in how our country is run.

He pulls no punches: the Audit Commission (now effectively abolished), the NAO and ministers who seek evidence to support predetermined policies («spray - on evidence», as civil servants call it) are dismissed for closing their minds to the evidence of failed methods or the possibility of different approaches.

It is the deceit and secrecy about the origins of the Iraq War that have been most damaging to Blair's reputation with the connivance of those civil servants, intelligence officials and senior military who were drawn into his magic circle or remained silent rather than challenge his policy.

Of all this, I consider the payment of salaries and emoluments of civil servants, especially teachers who are always in a tormenting majority, as the most importanOf all this, I consider the payment of salaries and emoluments of civil servants, especially teachers who are always in a tormenting majority, as the most importanof salaries and emoluments of civil servants, especially teachers who are always in a tormenting majority, as the most importanof civil servants, especially teachers who are always in a tormenting majority, as the most important.

Hayden Phillips, the senior civil servant at the time, has also received an invitation and Baroness Dean and Lord Hurd, who were on the scrutiny committee at the time of his appointment, are also understood to be on the list.

Serwotka, the head of the PCS union for civil servants, is among 3,200 people who have been prevented from voting on the grounds of not sharing Labour values, after he signed up as a supporter.

He said that Ken Clarke's civil servants ran the Commission and the Justice Secretary - who, he alleged, was in the pocket of the human rights establishment - had his hands everywhere.

Lack of detail at the outset cost hundreds if not thousands of hours of misery for the poor civil servants who dealt with it.

Alhaji Adelodun said out of one thousand, six hundred and eighty - eight civil servants who registered for the promotion exercise, one thousand, five hundred and seventy - eight scaled through both the written examination and oral interview.

The glaring hole is that the policy depends on the good - faith diligence of thousands of civil servants — who have no way of knowing what lawsuits or FOIL requests might be coming six months or a year down the road.

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«The boards» independent status sat uncomfortably with a reliance on civil servants who are, in effect, acting for the secretary of state.

Ministers can be divided into those who «go native» and are at the beck and call of their civil servants or who become very pompous and superior.

Civil servants at BIS who are working to re-industrialise the UK can take the short walk to Pimlico to see these portrayals of the North's industrial heyday.

I believe that those who created the discrepancies among the civil servants are those who were afraid of being detected or prosecuted for corruption because there is no way they will open the file without them being exposed.