Sentences with phrase «rejected by cabinet»

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Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

Abetz, being interviewed on ABC television on Sunday, was defending cabinet's decision to reject SPC Ardmona's $ 25m request, which was to be supplemented by $ 25m from the Victorian government and a larger investment by parent company Coca - Cola Amatil.

Proposals for mandatory jail sentences for possessing a knife, were rejected by Liberal Democrat ministers, according to cabinet papers leaked today to the Daily Mail.

He had, for instance, agreed to the May 1946 British - sponsored Cabinet Mission Plan for a loose federal set - up in India, which was rejected by the Jawaharlal Nehru - led Indian National Congress.

But the Cabinet minister said the Commons had «plainly and clearly» voted against the initial amendments moved by peers to reopen the Leveson inquiry, as he urged MPs to reject the latest measures.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand maintained her streak of rejecting Trump's cabinet appointees by voting «no» on DeVose.

The move tears up reforms introduced by Mr Cameron in 2011, when he split the roles of Cabinet Secretary, head of the Home Civil Service and permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office on the retirement of Sir Gus O'Donnell - now Lord O'Donnell - but Downing Street rejected suggestions that it was a mark that the previous changes had failed.

Theresa May was warned that attempts to keep her preferred new «customs partnership» model alive are «desperate» after it was rejected by the Brexit «war cabinet» of senior ministers.

With both sides said to be bruised by the row, John Redwood, a former Conservative Cabinet minister, rejected angrily suggestions that the role of the Liberal Democrats in government was to «bridle the instincts» of the Conservatives.

Such is his stature that shadow cabinet members grumble about being outranked even by Mr Osborne's aides, who have accrued the de facto power to approve or reject proposals in his absence.