Sentences with phrase «role as minister»

Madeleine Meilleur becomes the first francophone Attorney General of Ontario, in addition to her role as Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs.

She will continue in her role as minister responsible for francophone affairs, with her new position potentially providing greater scope to explore access for justice issues for linguistic minorities.

He was last seen onscreen in an uncredited role as a minister in Elmer Gantry (1960).

Since leaving his role as Minister for Trade and Investment in March 2016, Maude has begun a number of new business roles, including serving as an advisory board member at OakNorth Bank [14][15][16] which deals with business and property finance, and specialises in supporting the UK's growth businesses since September 2016.

Halfon, who attends cabinet in his role as minister without portfolio, has confessed his six - month affair to Downing Street and said he feels «ashamed».

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

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And Britain's equalities minister recently touted Christina Hendricks, the curvy star of Mad Men, as a healthy role model for young women.

It appears that in addition to his role as defense minister, he will now have indirect control over the head of National Guard and the interior minister, who oversees internal security.

Just last month, British Prime Minister David Cameron was greeted by the British press as a hero when he pulled out of an EU consensus because he said it risked eroding London's role as a financial hub.

In a video posted to Youtube on December 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted that banks would eventually disappear once their role as financial middlemen became redundant, adding that this obsolescence might result from market changes wrought by cryptocurrencies, namely bitcoin.

In a late - summer cabinet shuffle, Trudeau moved Jane Philpott, who had earned solid reviews during her stint as health minister, into a newly created role as Indigenous services minister.

At the same time, Nigeria's oil minister tried to downplay his country's role as spoiler to the agreement.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

The 2015 Rix Award for Engaged Community Citizenship will be presented to Carole Taylor, a community leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until June 2014.

This is important work that I look forward to continuing in my new role as Shadow Minister for Science.

In his current role as Infrastructure Minister, he has a big influence over which public projects get funding.

Ms. Gray is also Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal, a role that coincides with her position as chairperson of the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee, which is reviewing the Election Act, the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, the Conflicts of Interest Act, and the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

Economic Development & Trade Minister Deron Bilous has exulted in his role as Defender of Alberta Strong & Free ever since early December when Brad Wallâ $ ™ s Saskatchewan govâ $ ™ t attempted its...

Japan slipped quietly into the driver's seat and pushed for the TPP to go ahead, as the deal now provided it an enhanced leadership role in setting the Asia Pacific trade agenda on terms that Prime Minister Abe had embraced as part of Abenomics.

We look forward to the opportunity to engage Minister Freeland on the critical role B.C. plays as Canada's gateway to the growing Asia - Pacific region.

Therefore, in our roles as Christian ministers, we, the undersigned, commit ourselves to disengaging civil and Christian marriage in the performance of our pastoral duties.

It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

As continuing licensed ministers, their roles were normally limited to being associate pastors of churches, hospital chaplains or religion teachers, and their functions were also restricted.

And at Connecticut's Fairfield University, scholars, clergy, and lay Catholics recently discussed the implications for the church of having many gay and lesbian people, both in and out of the closet, in roles as priests and ministers.

These two facets of his professional role definition give the minister a potential advantage over those in the other helping professions, so far as the early recognition of distressed persons is concerned.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his campign.

One important element in this definition of his role is the recognition that dealing with alcoholics in a constructive manner is a major opportunity as well as a major problem for the parish minister.

Through his priestly role the minister brings familiar rituals and theological beliefs to serve as vehicles of trust.

Perhaps in no other area of clerical practice do the master role of prophetic guide to maturing in the Christian life and the professional role called for by the institution blend so nearly into one as in the case of the minister as pastor.

A minister with only a client - centered string on his counseling fiddle often feels guilty or blocked in counseling situations requiring the constructive exercise of authority, functioning as a teacher - counselor, or serving a parishioner emotionally in a feeding role.

Yet the sermon appears to be ineffective as a moral guide, and many ministers seem to be unable to fill the role of the shepherd guiding his flock.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his candidacy.

On the one hand, they served as ordained ministers subject to the authority of the church; on the other hand, they played an increasingly active role as leaders of a popular movement.

But 20 - plus years later, as a minister with a considerable number of roles myself, I'm equally impressed with the phrase; «She used to sit.»

This is the argument that is offered as a theological justification for the minister in the dominant roles of enabler and conflict manager.

Fry Brown, who is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church, said those numbers seem to be «holding,» even as the role of the black church is changing.

Write as who you are: a gay or lesbian person, a parent, a pastoral minister, a counselor, a youth worker, a chaplain — whatever your role is.»

It examines the role of the teacher as not only an educator, although precisely what this term implies is discussed, but also as witness, parent, guide, minister and cosmologist!

A professor of psychiatry accented the role of clergymen when he stated: «We recognize the minister as one of the first lines of defense in the mental hygiene movement.»

As Fred Craddock says so well, «If a minister takes seriously the role of listeners in preaching, there will be sermons expressing for the whole church, and with God as the primary audience, the faith, the doubt, the fear, the anger, the love, the joy, the gratitude that is in all of us.&raquAs Fred Craddock says so well, «If a minister takes seriously the role of listeners in preaching, there will be sermons expressing for the whole church, and with God as the primary audience, the faith, the doubt, the fear, the anger, the love, the joy, the gratitude that is in all of us.&raquas the primary audience, the faith, the doubt, the fear, the anger, the love, the joy, the gratitude that is in all of us.»

(ENTIRE BOOK) A reassessment of the minister's role as preacher in contemporary society — a re-evaluation made necessary by developments in theology and culture.

Today, the Saturday Gathering officially operates as an ecumenical «Fresh Expression», which Maslen has oversight of as part of her role as an ordained Anglican minister.

The minister's role is to assist the alcoholic to «connect» with a doctor who accepts alcoholics as patients, knows the latest methods of treating the problems associated with alcoholism, and is appreciative of the contributions of AA and pastoral counseling.

Because of his symbolic role as a religious authority figure, the minister naturally attracts a circle of dependent persons who gain strength by identifying with him and with the group which he leads.

As one who fills this role in the community the minister has received many special privileges.

Within such an approach, several themes would play especially important roles: pastoral care as the ministry of the whole congregation in the world; the identity of the ordained minister in his or her pastoral office as both enabler and representative of the calling of all Christians to minister in the world; and a threefold focus of pastoral care, including the person or persons in need, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the faith of the Christian church as represented in Scripture and tradition.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

The minister saw his role as that of helping her face the implications of what she already knew — that she and the children were in a dangerous situation.

The social pattern of the Negro community in the post-War period might be described as theocratic with the minister occupying the role of chief, prophet, educator, and political leader.

A certain pietism dominated the West: Coast group so that its members tended to conceive of their role - as «ministering» to the people who worked in the industry.