Sentences with phrase «presiding over a crisis»

Commenting on the report, Angela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, blamed the Conservatives for presiding over the crisis.

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ONE CRISIS BEGETS ANOTHER: Bailouts and plummeting tax receipts during and after the Great Recession made Timothy Geithner (above) the first Treasury secretary to preside over deficits that exceeded $ 1 trillion.

Behind the scenes during a summer of crisis, however, Trump appears to pine for the days when the Oval Office was a bustling hub of visitors and gossip, over which he presided as impresario.

Bernanke had presided over the United States central bank during the 2008 - 09 international financial crisis and is currently a distinguished fellow in residence with the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution.

In prisons, that either means cutting down on the prison population or facing the kind of crisis Chris Grayling has presided over.

He has presided over a deepening economic crisis in Zimbabwe, where people are on average 15 % poorer now than they were in 1980.

After presiding over one of the worst economic crises in living memory, Labour's answer to everything is still more borrowing, more spending and higher taxes.

Miliband was in the middle of a campaign visit to highlight what he called the «cost of living crisis» presided over by the government.

It's difficult to think of a more reprehensible response to the Calais crisis than the one David Cameron has presided over since last week.

The Welsh Labour government is presiding over a childcare crisis, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has today claimed.

The group also requested Buhari to preside over national emergency in the North - East conference to find a cohesive response plan to the humanitarian crisis there.

He said the SNP government in Edinburgh had presided over increasing poverty, a growing crisis in care for the elderly and worsening attainment in schools.

Prior to that she served in the federal EPA, California's EPA and as energy advisor to former California Gov. Gray Davis, perhaps most well known in this arena for presiding over the state energy crisis that was exacerbated by Enron.

Gallo, the Oakland school board president, presided over the district during its period of overspending and the resulting crisis.

Reporters now receive near - daily press releases from her representatives, criticizing the press for not covering crises in the city's district schools and the city government for presiding over low - performing schools.

«The Conservatives have presided over a youth jobs crisis which has forced so many young people to work for free with the hope of finding opportunities in the future,» said NDP MP Laurin Liu (Rivière - des - Mille - Îles) who introduced the bill.