Sentences with phrase «poor civil servants»

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

Not exact matches

This clearly is not good law and it is no wonder that the Hunting Act was cited in 2010 as an example of poor legislation by The Better Government Initiative, which was compiled by former senior civil servants, including Lord Butler, Sir John Chilcot and Sir Thomas Legg.

He observed that there was poor attendance of civil servants at the event and directed that they would have to queue behind their commissioners in subsequent presentations.

Entering the Commons following poor opinion polls, inflation at a 15 - year - high and a «Stalinist» jibe from a leading civil servant, the chancellor was not unveiling his Budget from a comfortable position.

VSP is a welfare system for poor families and CSP pays parts of the salaries of civil servants staff and pensioners.

Although it is too early to evaluate the impact this will have on research careers in Spain, the FJI expressed some concerns: «We deem it necessary to take steps to prevent candidates with poorer records from using the PCD [system] to bypass the [traditional selection] procedure [for permanent staff], and to avoid the creation of two layers of «1st class» (civil servant) and «2nd class» (non-civil servant) appointees.»

In contrast, members of the opposition and numerous independent media sources highlighted among other things the poor quality of indelible ink — the first time it was used in a Malaysian election — which could be washed off almost immediately, early voting for servicemen and civil servants, state domination of media and repression of independent journalists, and perhaps most troubling of all, the mobilization by Barisan Nasional of foreign guest workers to vote in key constituencies.