Sentences with phrase «rather than the secretary»

DeVos's opponents could refocus their efforts toward fighting to protect funding for these programs, but doing so will require focusing on Congress, which controls the purse strings, rather than the secretary.

The most important one being that a library should now be called an «Information Resource Center, or IRC», at least at Orrick... That is a new one for me: I knew I had an administrative assistant rather than a secretary, I had heard about collateral damages rather than murdered civilians, etc. but I am a bit sad to have the good old libraries R.I.P.!

Not exact matches

She had been considered as a candidate for deputy Treasury secretary but withdrew rather than undergo a banker - bashing confirmation hearing.

A leaked audio recording of Theresa May speaking at Goldman Sachs in May — before the referendum and before she became prime minister — features the then - home secretary saying: «If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say, do they need to develop a mainland Europe presence rather than a UK presence?»

«Our country has a massive energy economy and we should absolutely wear it on our sleeves, rather than keep energy resources in the ground,» said Vincent DeVito, Counselor to the Secretary of Interior for Energy Policy.

Rather than work through cumbersome existing processes, President Trump ordered Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to study the national - security implications of steel dumping.

«Rather than remedy its misconduct, China has chosen to harm our farmers and manufacturers,» Trump said in the statement, and he added that he's instructing the secretary of agriculture to take measures to protect farmers and other agricultural interests who might be ensnared by the Chinese tariffs.

Secretary of commerce Designate Wilbur Ross vows to self - initiate dumping cases rather than waiting for industry to file.

Fred Abt, father of Parkland shooting survivor Carson Abt, said he had discussed with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over lunch that rather than waiting for first responders to arrive, it would be more efficient to have firearms locked on school campuses.

Recently, both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been caught using the phrase «freedom of worship» in prominent speeches, rather than the «freedom of religion» the President called for in Cairo.

Is it important that our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, refers to man - caused disasters rather than terrorism?

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

Hillary Clinton has also been rebuffed for her character, most recently for using her own personal email server, rather than the State Department's, when sending classified emails as Secretary of State (ultimately resulting in both FBI and State Department investigations).

Australian Workers Union NSW state secretary Russ Collison was furious at the government, rather than the company.

Lunchtime — 25 or 30 minutes (school secretary couldn't remember which)-- rather than 20, and no hot lunch program to slow things down.

Labour's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said the report showed that decisions had been «stitched up» to meet the government's spending plans rather than Britain's security needs.

Some disgruntled Labour insiders said the full circle would really have come if Abbott was home secretary rather than shadowing the job.

Douglas Hurd concludes: «The relationship between foreign secretary and prime minister over the two centuries has depended overwhelmingly on personalities rather than constitutional principle.»

While describing it as a political witch - hunt, The state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Chris Nehikhare, who spoke while briefing journalists in Benin, the state capital, said that the state government's move was a clear sign of political desperation and persecution of the former governor, rather than addressing the numerous challenges facing the state.

The International Secretary General of MSF, Oberreit, illustrated this method when, at the same time as the tweet was issued about «victims of EU policies», he called on European governments to change their priorities: «rather than maximising the number of people they can push back, they must maximise the number they welcome and protect.»

The free schools budget is out of control and the Secretary of State would rather sink another # 800 million into the black hole, rather than rein in spending.»

Oil - rich Shetland may consider becoming a self - governing territory like the Isle of Man rather than stay part of an independent Scotland in the event of a yes vote, the Scotland secretary, Alistair Carmichael, has said.

I think they would need to come from other countries, rather than Western nations,» British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

A Downing St spokesman has clarified that the new Financial Secretary, Nicky Morgan, will report directly to David Cameron on women's issues, rather than to the new Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid.

The Westminster government wants the vote to be held «sooner rather than later», Scottish secretary Mr Moore said on Monday after talks with Mr Salmond.

«On his watch we have an environment secretary who doesn't believe in climate change, our carbon emissions are rising rather than falling and the government has failed to set a target a clean up our power system by 2030.»

He said that in future, all of Labour's members should get a vote in general secretary elections, rather than just those on the party's ruling national executive committee.

He covers the historical background of Grey's period of 11 years as foreign secretary and the accusations of secret diplomacy, but fleshes out the details, particularly of his private life, affairs and preference to be in the country rather than Westminster.

Brendan Barber, secretary general of the TUC, said the «revelations of the mounting cost of paying for GPs to sit on committees rather than look after their patients, even before the bill becomes law, provide even more reasons why parliament should vote it down».

Frankly, this is a practical decision as I would rather have any living former president take over (assuming they are in good health and not suffering from dementia) in that situation than the Secretary of the Interior.

Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire always tries to avoid the last problem rather than avoiding the next one

The home secretary wants passenger data, including bank information and details of travelling companions, to be held for six years rather than the 30 days proposed by the EU.

We'd usually follow this with some tired suggestions about why it's not her opposite number, Theresa May, rather than the shadow foreign secretary asking the questions.

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

The Work and Pensions Secretary said that the planned universal benefits system would be means - tested on household income, rather than individual earnings, to iron out the anomalies in Mr Osborne's plan.

Rather than analysing the announcements about changes to pension annuities and ISAs, the Shadow Chancellor revealed instead that he spent a long section of the speech urging Vince Cable to dig Communities Secretary Eric Pickles in the ribs.

Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has told AMs that the Assembly is getting «the most far reaching and significant package of powers ever devolved to Wales» and urged them to use those powers rather than spend their time demanding more.

And do party members believe that Andy Burnham, secretary of state for health at the time of Mid Staffs, is the candidate most able to cut through Tory attacks and persuade voters that he, rather than David Cameron, or whoever replaces him, should be prime minister of Britain?

Last night home secretary Jacqui Smith told MPs that, rather than reintroduce the proposals to the House of Commons, the government would instead prepare a new, temporary, bill to be rushed through as emergency legislation, if necessary.

There will be another vote today, when all Conservatives are due to abstain, rather than embarrass the Welsh Secretary when he's in the Senedd.

The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NPP, Sam Pyne, had earlier said the development required national security involvement, rather than party leadership since the victim of the attack was a government appointee.

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who was one of the panellists, said rather than problem, increasing number of political parties would increased peoples» participation in democracy.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

Hilary Benn, shadow communities and local government secretary, told the Ipsos MORI event at the Labour party conference last year that the coalition has made it difficult for Labour to be heard as the media focussed on coalition differences rather than what Labour's view is.

No wonder International Trade Secretary Liam Fox declared that «it does appear that some elements of our media would rather see Britain fail than see Brexit succeed.»

In an interview with the Sunday Times, the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, said EU migrants should wait for up to two years before being able to claim benefits rather than the current period of three months.

Although Number Ten may be thanking their lucky stars that Diane Abbott is Shadow Home Secretary rather than Yvette Cooper, but they shouldn't be too complacent.

Having criticised the chief secretary to the Treasury for «ranting» about Labour rather than answering for the government, the Speaker then became even more annoyed when her boss appeared to pull a face.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

Momentum chief Jon Lansman was recorded saying that if Len McCluskey was re-elected as Unite general secretary, the union would affiliate to his group rather than to Labour.