Sentences with phrase «on affairs of state»

But how can a queen be expected to keep her mind on affairs of state when a handsome adventurer has her pondering affairs of the heart?

It is widely held that this traditional meeting of the heads of government and state provides the Prime Minister with the chance to reflect on events, to consult and seek advice on affairs of state with the absolute knowledge of confidentiality.

I invite readers to comment below on the affairs of their states; I am only going to cover a few big states tonight.

Not exact matches

Jonathan Miller, Channel 4's foreign affairs correspondent, investigates footage taken from thousands of videos circulating online, with the aim of determining whether or not there is prima facie evidence of widespread and systematic torture being carried out by the Syrian state on its own people.

Michael Hennessy, Telus's senior - vice president of regulatory and government affairs, expanded on that on Twitter, stating that while Telus disagrees with the OECD's methodology, it does support the bottom line.

A spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs said the agency is «not able to comment on current litigation.»

After John Flannery, General Electric's new CEO, saved his company's stock by giving a candid interview on its «horrible» state of affairs, CNBC's Jim Cramer gained some renewed hope.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreestate for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreeState Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17.

And newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry, the man charged with accepting or rejecting TransCanada's permit application, sounded sour on Keystone during his first tête - à - tête with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

There are a lot of serious issues in the United States, and the inclination to try to stay serious and talk about guns, trade, Medicaid, or drug overdoses rather than reports of the president's alleged past affairs with porn actresses and Playboy playmates is understandable and, on some level, laudable.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

«He's been very clear that he thinks the risks on the jobs side are far greater right now than the risks on the inflation side and that policy should follow that obvious state of affairs.»

And unfortunately, many of us are wired to hone in on the painful experiences and form pessimistic beliefs about what that means for our current state of affairs and the potential for our future.

President Trump's lawyers filed two motions on Friday in the United States District Court in California, where Daniels sued to get out of a nondisclosure agreement to stay quiet about her affair with Trump ahead of the election.

Stormy Daniels (going on Kimmel tonight after Trump's State of the Union) issues a new statement saying she is denying having an affair with Trump not because of a settlement but because «it never happened.»

Shortly thereafter, Daniels added a complaint in her lawsuit against Cohen, alleging defamation when on February 13 he stated in reference to claims of an affair that, «Just because something isn't true doesn't mean it can't cause you harm or damage,» implying that Daniels is lying about the affair.

He previously spent 16 years of government service focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Special Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and National Security Council Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

In his testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on November 28th, 2017, he stated, «We make better decisions when we have diverse voices around the table — both at the Board of Governors and at the Reserve Banks... We've seen what works.

OTTAWA — In a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.»

The Beige Book survey seemed to blame this less - than - idyllic state of affairs on the weakening in demand overseas.

Before serving on the NSC staff, Dr. Melby was a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, responsible for trade and energy issues.

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The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe and United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin on November 9, 2017.

Chamber Hosts Ireland's Varadkar On March 14, the Chamber's European Affairs program hosted Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar to discuss the deep economic partnership between the United States and Ireland, the consequences of Brexit, and Ireland's changing role in the European Union.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland has announced the conclusion of the Vancouver Foreign Ministers» Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula, co-hosted with Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State.

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A series of articles and commentary on issues related to the state of economic, political and business affairs in the United States

The Foreign Ministers» Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula, co-hosted by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, kicked off this morning in Vancouver, Canada.

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It's a sad state of affairs when someone on welfare, who has never contributed a anything, has better benefits than our veterans.

He subsequently served as senior assistant deputy minister in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade with responsibility for managing Canada's relations with the United States and the implementation of NAFTA, including providing advice to business on how to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that NAFTA afforded.

The New York Alternative Investment Roundtable recently conducted a survey on the topic of how the United States stacks up in foreign affairs and found that many in the alternative investment industry think the United States is diminishing its global influence, according to a recent release by the roundtable.

United States Newsmakers After the Republican victory in the 2014 US midterm elections and an eight - year hiatus, Richard Shelby, a senior senator from Alabama, has taken over his old post as chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

To track this, we launched an annual study in 2014 on the state of affairs for female founders raising institutional capital.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

The government has created the State Administration for Religious Affairs under its United Front Work Department to keep a close eye and a short leash on practitioners, effectively installing itself as the high priest presiding over the internal affairs of religious organizAffairs under its United Front Work Department to keep a close eye and a short leash on practitioners, effectively installing itself as the high priest presiding over the internal affairs of religious organizaffairs of religious organizations.

However, the Bible and history provide important insights on our present state of affairs — and the Bible alone reveals where these startling changes are taking our youth and our society.

This state of affairs can be explained only by the wide dependence of local schools on federal aid.

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to combine its office and duties with the Office of Religion and Global Affairs, created four years ago to advise State Department leaders on religion - related policy matters and to help diplomats navigate religious dynamics overseas.

The «U.N. is dead» exclaimed the Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister on December 26, 1998, following the latest bombardment of Iraq by United States and British aircraft.

But as much as John Paul appreciated the United States, he kept his independence and issued a series of declarations about social justice and peace that challenged many Americans — both on the domestic front and in foreign affairs.

When the flood wiped out most of mankind, God allowed it because the current state of affairs on this earth were not conducive to His intent to have relationship with us.

Where such a reality (as spelt out in 1) does exist, most often the blame for such a state of affairs is put on «outside» forces or on those minorities «inside» who do not conform to some kind of standardized understanding of a national norm.

In the first place, it can be conceived as causal dependence: that is, the dependence of one entity on preceding entities or states of affairs.

Here connectedness is conceived not only as the causal dependence of one entity or state of affairs on others, but as the actual immanence of those other entities in the very constitution of the entity at issue.

Even while decrying the baneful influence of the states on national affairs and their sometimes oppressive internal policies, he assumed that they would retain considerable authority.