Sentences with phrase «run by ministers»

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By trying to embarrass Harper for running deficits, Mulcair and Trudeau are playing into the prime minister's hands.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

For his part, Abe is facing cronyism scandals in Japan related to the discounted sale of government land to a private school and the approval of a new veterinary school run by one of the Prime Minister's friends.

May herself is running in Defence Minister Peter MacKay's strongly Tory riding of Central Nova — which was long held by MacKay's father Elmer, except for the years the family loaned it to Brian Mulroney.

Goldman has said it believed the money was being used to buy legitimate assets for the investment fund, which was run in part by the Malaysian government and its embattled prime minister, Najib Razak.

It is expected that any cabinet ministers appointed from outside the Assembly would be required to run in by - elections alongside Mr. Prentice, who currently does not hold a seat in the Alberta Legislature.

In November, the government changed some listing rules to allow book building, or the process of using underwriters to assess investor demand and price interest, for stake sales in state - run firms, subject to approval by the prime minister.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

By this he means the tendency to center both practical theology and theological education on the skills that professional ministers need in order to run local congregations effectively.

In addition, if seminary education were informed more by theologia as he conceives it, ministers would be better equipped not only to run their churches but to relate them to the major issues being debated in the public realm.

«It would show that Christianity isn't an institution run by a professional elite ministering to the holy few.»

By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.

I think all of the criticism of ministers needs to be run by some simple criteria.

This is for two reasons: first, the minister by the detachment of his vocation knows less about the layman's problems than laymen do; and second, such groups too easily run into one more discourse to which by long conditioning it is customary to listen passively without being very much stirred to action.

He made a plea for what he called pioneer religion — in which God the trail boss and Jesus the scout lead the church, a covered wagon always on the move, as the minister dishes up for the pioneers fresh meat brought in by the Holy Spirit — over settler religion in which God the mayor and Jesus the sheriff run the church as a courthouse and the minister - banker protects the interests of the religious establishment.

The Health Star Rating scheme was initially signed off by Federal, State and Territory food and health ministers in June 2013 and was expected to be implemented under a voluntary code run by the grocery industry body the Australian Food and Grocery Council.

Written by the award - winning Kevin Toolis, the one - man show is on its way to the Edinburgh Festival where, judging by the buzz it has already created after a short preview run in London, punters will be lining up with morbid curiosity to renew acquaintances with a man whom Toolis believes is the worst prime minister in over two centuries.

Government is not run by Queen or GG, but instead by the head of parliament, the Prime Minister.

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

Although the UAE's Prime Minister stated in an interview with the BBC that he «hopes (El Sissi) remains in the military, and that another person [runs] for the presidency», a clarification was soon issued by the official news agency saying that the «brotherly advice is that General al - Sissi should not run as a military man for the post of the presidency».

The announcement by Egypt's Defense Minister, now Field Marshall, Abdel - Fattah El Sissi that he would be running for president was greeted with joy and with apprehension, not only in Egypt, but also in the Gulf States.

Guelleh, who ran on the UMP party ticket, secured 87 percent of the votes cast in Friday's elections, according to provisional results announced by the country's interior minister.

The Campaign for Better Transport said the electrification projects would cut carbon and running costs, but said it was disappointed that ministers had committed to permitting ticket prices to increase by retail price index inflation plus a further three per cent.

With his slim majority, I suspect the Prime Minister will be given a near - permanent headache by Peter Bone and the Tory backbench awkward squad in the run - up to that referendum.

Mr Maizière was only saved by the upcoming federal elections: in the run - up, Chancellor Merkel could not afford to lose one of her most valuable ministers.

In April, The Observer reported claims from a former minister that Rupert Murdoch tried to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown early in 2010 to help in resisting attempts by Labour MPs and peers to investigate the affair, and to go easy on News of the World in the run - up to the UK's general election of Mminister that Rupert Murdoch tried to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown early in 2010 to help in resisting attempts by Labour MPs and peers to investigate the affair, and to go easy on News of the World in the run - up to the UK's general election of MMinister Gordon Brown early in 2010 to help in resisting attempts by Labour MPs and peers to investigate the affair, and to go easy on News of the World in the run - up to the UK's general election of May 2010.

The session had been billed as a grilling of Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo in the run - up to next year's staging of the World Cup by Brazil.

At one point, the prime minister appeared to be simply reading a script prepared by Lynton Crosby who has been hired to run the Tory campaign.

The statement added that Nana Akufo - Addo will be accompanied on the tour by his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia; Policy Advisor, Boakye Agyarko; former Minister of State, Elizabeth Ohene; National Organiser, John Boadu; National Women's Organiser, Otiko Afisa Djaba; Political Assistant, Francis Asenso - Boakye; Press Secretary, Eugene Arhin; and Campaign Aides, Iddrisu Musah «Superior» and Pius Hadzide.

At the moment, the Northern Ireland Assembly is run by the DUP's Peter Robinson as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy First Minister.

Internal surveys were reported to have shown that the joint list would win more than 50 seats in the upcoming elections, a total unheard of by a single party in decades, and one that if realized would virtually guarantee Netanyahu continuing as prime minister in the next parliament, no matter which candidates ran and no matter which alliances were formed against him.

The home secretary will be aware that her department was previously run by the prime minister...

Conservative leader David Cameron argued that the prime minister was «running away from his promises» by cutting 9,000 beds after promising an additional 7,000 in 2000.

We can not do this by running scared of the Daily Mail, Tory ministers and nationalism.

Appearing on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff for the second day running, the Conservative MP - who was axed as culture minister by Theresa May - explained why he had not been told off for criticisms of the government's approach to Brexit that he made yesterday.

May also issued a rare rebuke to the Daily Mail after the paper horrified many people by running a front page featuring a close - up of the prime minister with the headline: «Crush the saboteurs».

These soothing sentiments from the minister were then immediately followed by an anti-social worker media frenzy, carefully crafted by his own department and run over several days.

An alternative draft of the report, written by the Labour MP Paul Flynn, called for further investigations of the prime minister's decision to bring in O'Donnell to run the inquiry.

Indeed, a reduction in the cost of running government, including appointing the minimum number of ministers required by the Constitution, particularly those drawn from Parliament, was one of the list of 10 actions CDD - Ghana urged the Akufo - Addo - led NPP government to undertake in its first year.

Clarke, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2010 election against Labour's Sadiq Khan in Tooting, south London, was later accused of seeking to blackmail the cabinet minister Robert Halfon by threatening to expose his affair with a Tory activist — an affair which Halfon later admitted to and apologised for.

Some of Corbyn's close allies in the parliamentary party regard the ferocity of the backlash against Livingstone by prominent backbenchers, such as Wes Streeting, and former ministers, including Andy Burnham, as a «witch hunt», aimed at undermining the leader in the run up to the local elections.

Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has stated that by 2019 general elections, Nigerians will be begging President Muhammadu Buhari to run for a second.

In contrast to Cameron, Ed Miliband focuses on fundamentals at PMQs whether that's the economy, the squeeze in living standards or the crisis in confidence in the political system exemplified by a prime minister on the run who refuses to report a cabinet minister to the independent advisor on the ministerial code.

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The prime minister launched the initiative in Liverpool today in a speech confirming that money from dormant bank accounts will be used to fund projects run by social enterprises, charities and community groups.

Last week it was confirmed that most ministers who served in the cabinet in the run - up to the general election had been asked by Scotland Yard by letter to provide written details of what they knew about secret loans to the Labour party.

If by «running something» you mean someone who was a minister under New Labour, then you may find that for much of the London electorate that isn't exactly a recommendation.

The intervention by Vine, a Daily Mail columnist who also tweeted a link to a Times cartoon suggesting the prime minister would be grateful if her husband smothered himself, came as the reshuffle ran into trouble on a series of fronts.

The new diaries, which will be published in early September, run from his sacking by Blair as a minister after the 2005 elections to election day 2010 as he prepares to step down after 23 years as an MP.

Rep. Charlie Stallworth, a black minister from Bridgeport drafted by Democratic gubernatorial petitioner Guy Smith this week to be his running mate, finished with less than 2 percent of the vote in the lieutenant governor race.