Sentences with phrase «then culture minister»

Meanwhile, then culture minister Chris Smith spoke out against the prize for being «controversy for controversy's sake... too narrow and unrepresentative of British art».

In 2012, then culture minister Ed Vaizey refused to extend the deal, saying that long - term use of temporary licences was undermining the export control system.

None quite live up to the memorable thoughts of the then culture minister Kim Howells back in 2002.

Not exact matches

Then Minister of Culture Jek Yeun Thong defended the measures, saying in Parliament that the local press would remain free as long as «no attempt is made by them, or through their proxies, to glorify undesirable viewpoints and philosophies.»

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

You debate brought a thought to mind that may or may not be worthy of sharing: If Jesus was born into and raised in and ministered in a culture where the vast majority of knowledge and wisdom is communicated orally via spoken word and oral tradition, then does it perhaps follow that «to study» was primarily done by listening and speaking?

To be able to minister as effectively as possible, foreign missionaries must really do their homework to learn the culture, and then continue to grow in that knowledge and understanding.

She subsequently served as Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, combining the position with that of Shadow Secretary of State for International Development (2010 — 2011) and then Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2011 — 2015).

His interior minister, who has previously been criticised for arguing some cultures are superior to others, then claimed halal food could forced on to school menus.

The Chancellor was impressed and Javid then spent two years as a Treasury Minister before David Cameron promoted him to the Cabinet in April 2014 as Culture Secretary.

The letter was sent to Patricia Hewitt, then health secretary, David Lammy, then culture secretary and junior health ministers Rosie Winterton and Ivan Lewis.

Maria Miller, Culture Secretary and minister for equalities, may well have our sympathy, then, in urging the Church of England to think again on women bishops.

The new culture secretary had a steady rise after entering parliament in 2010, becoming a whip and then taking two jobs in the Home Office under May: minister for modern slavery and organised crime, and minister for preventing abuse and exploitation.

Commissioned by Ed Vaizey, then minister for culture, communications and the creative industries, it was intended as a review of the skills needs of the video - games and visual effects industries, long seen as economically valuable sectors of the UK economy.

The so - called Lang Law, named for then - Minister of Culture Jack Lang, attempted to prevent megaretailers from crushing independent bookstores.

Then there are the superb images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a gay woman in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits of nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.&raThen there are the superb images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a gay woman in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits of nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.&rathen Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits of nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.»

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

Kim Howells, the culture minister, dimissed contenders for the Turner Prize as «conceptual bullshit», adding: «If this is the best British artists can produce, then British art is lost.»

Kim Howells Bows 21 Years as MP For Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); December 19, 2009; Livingstone, Tomos; 700 + words... message New Labour MP, most notably in 2002 when the then - Culture Minister dismissed the Turner Prize exhibition as «cold, mechanical, conceptual bull ****».