Sentences with phrase «office as a minister»

I have concluded that it would be distracting both to my trial defence and to my official duties if I were to continue in office as a minister.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed upon assuming office as minister has kept the party at a an edge in its reaction to issues of national interest pertaining to it.

In May 2002, Alexander was transferred to the Cabinet Office as Minister of State.

In her response, Hon. Ursula Owusu Ekuful promised to show the public the «born again» person that she is as she goes to occupy public office as a minister.

On the charge that the defendant used his office as minister to allocate 15 houses to his associates, the defence told the court that there was a committee set up by the government.

Mr. Bala is accused of fraudulently receiving over N800 million as gratification while in office as minister.

Bala, while in office as minister, allegedly received N550million as bribe from the Aso Savings and Loans Limited with respect to some properties in the Asokoro area of Abuja.

«We don't always have to cling to office as ministers.

Her father Mohamed trained as a physician in Scotland, but filled with hope created by post-colonial possibilities, he returned to Africa with his new family, working at first in a clinic, then holding political office as minister of finance.

Not exact matches

There's even a chance the dreamy Prime Minister will provide some free publicity, as Justin Trudeau did for Microsoft Corp. when it opened an office in Vancouver last year, for example.

The sanctioned officials are Willian Antonio Contreras, the vice minister of internal commerce; Nelson Reinaldo Lepaje Salazar, who is acting as head of the office of the national treasury, according to the U.S.; Americo Alex Mata Garcia, an alternate director on the board of the National Bank of Housing and Habitat; and Carlos Alberto Rotondaro Cova, the former president of the board of directors of the Venezuela Institute of Social Security.

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

Five years after staring into a political and personal abyss, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out to prove that the man who threw in the towel after barely a year in office has what it takes to survive as a long - term leader.

The government has built four trade and investment offices throughout China, has doubled their staff, and set up former cabinet minister Ben Stewart as a new, permanent special representative who is based in Beijing.

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, holder of a DEA in Organisational Strategy and an Engineer from the Ponts et Chaussées, François Gauthey joined the Private Office of the Minister for the Economy, Edmond Alphandery, in 1993, as a technical advisor.

Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

He should have taken a lesson from London, Ont., mayor, Joe Fontana, who did declare a conflict of interest when his council voted to ask him to leave office in light of fraud charges stemming from his time as a federal cabinet minister.

On the surface, it seems that Zuckerberg had all the right reasons to get to know Lu Wei, a vice minister of propaganda who doubles as the director of the State Internet Information Office.

Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and a former finance minister who is now chairman of Oxfam International were arrested on Tuesday as part of a local corruption investigation, the public prosecutor's office said.

Mr. Flaherty, who has served as Finance Minister since the Conservatives first took office in 2006, had publicly declared that he wants to keep his job, though he has been battling a painful skin condition for months.

The government, which has centralized control over resource development in the Prime Minister's Office, made the changes after lobbying from pipeline companies that portrayed the fisheries law as «onerous.»

TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed the inter-Korean summit as good for denuclearization and a «historical step» towards peace and stability in northeast Asia, Abe's office said on Sunday.

OTTAWA — As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivers the federal budget Thursday in the House of Commons, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer will deliver arguments in court seeking clarity on its mandate and more information on the Conservative government's spending cuts.

Torontonians may rest easy with John Tory in the mayor's office and Justin Trudeau as prime minister, but remember that Toronto was one of the first places in the world to experience the populist backlash that propelled Rob Ford into the mayor's office.

The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on immigration.

We will also ensure that Access to Information applies to the Prime Minister's and Ministers» Offices, as well as administrative institutions that support Parliament and the courts.

Former caretaker prime minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, his voice at times breaking as he addressed the lawmakers, noted he had only been in office for 35 days at a time of political and economic turmoil in Greece.

Stephen Harper, a Conservative who had served as prime minister since before Obama took office, had campaigned hard for the project.

«The difference between the previous government and our government is that our prime minister recognizes the need that more can be done,» said Government House leader Bardish Chagger, who as small business minister signed off on a $ 69,625 relocation claim by one staffer in her office.

Retired as Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, he has rich experience in implementation of economic policies and monitoring of the special economic agenda of the Cabinet on behalf of the Prime Minister «s Office.

China's foreign minister will visit North Korea this week, his office said Monday, becoming the highest - ranking Chinese official to travel there in years as Beijing moves to further improve ties with Pyongyang days after a landmark inter-Korean summit.

«As the leader of the Liberal Party noted, it was in fact this party, this government, that established the parliamentary budget office,» the Prime Minister congratulated himself, «so this government is more than familiar with its intention in terms of the mandate it set up.»

At the end of the process, the result is usually the same as though we were being ruled by decree from the Prime Minister's Office — which, in effect, we are.

A string of staff changes has taken place in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office, including the recent addition of Rick Theis as a new policy adviser.

When asked about the expected $ 1,000,000 severance he could collect for having served as an MLA and cabinet minister since 1979, Speaker Kowalski told the media not to worry, because «I'll never collect it,» «I'll die in office.»

Mr. Velshi now works as director of planning for Prime Minister Stephen Harper «s office.

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

He has a long career in government and has served as deputy secretary to the cabinet at the Privy Council Office, associate deputy minister and then acting deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, associate assistant deputy minister of energy policy and assistant deputy minister of international trade and finance.

Possible effect: House duties can become a threat to the male minister who comes to prefer them to some of his other tasks such as office work, calling, studying and the like.

Moreover, these problems are such that the theologian may be able to say something about them which will be relevant to the whole enterprise of Christian thought and communication, as this is focused in the preaching office of the minister.

Wilson, the minister's son, who led prayers as soon as he took office, made it promptly clear that Princeton was not religious by dint of any continuing bond with a church: «Princeton... is a Presbyterian college only because the Presbyterians of New Jersey were wise and progressive enough to found it.»

Again the authority of the minister as representative of the community of learning is incidental and not essential to the office.

The minister might be tempted, as Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor points out, to conceive his office too narrowly as consisting only of public preaching.

Two years after Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper promised to create a religious freedom office as part of his campaign platform, the government has finally given it a leader.

But of course the minister is always a pastor, and the pastor a minister, These are functions as well as offices, and in the broader sense every Christian may be minister - pastor to his neighbor.

By the sheer number of these cartoons, Robinson demonstrates that Burke was far more in the public eye than anyone of his day with the exception of the prime ministers and royalty - quite a feat for someone who never held Cabinet - level office and was never regarded as an insider.

The very office of minister, which far too often is understood to symbolize only judgment upon sin, should be known as one expression in the Church of the forgiving spirit.

In taking this position I do of course raise a very old question in the doctrine of the ministry, the question of whether the minister's authority to preach the Word, administer sacraments, and act as pastor inheres in his office and ordination or whether it inheres in his person and is dependent upon his faith.

«When a Minister, the Teaching Elder, is called by a congregation to labor as its Pastor, it belongs to the office... to feed the flock, by reading, expounding, and preaching the Word...»

Within such an approach, several themes would play especially important roles: pastoral care as the ministry of the whole congregation in the world; the identity of the ordained minister in his or her pastoral office as both enabler and representative of the calling of all Christians to minister in the world; and a threefold focus of pastoral care, including the person or persons in need, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the faith of the Christian church as represented in Scripture and tradition.