Sentences with phrase «told by the minister»

Engineers and Planning have not committed any offence, Exton Cubic has not committed any offence, but we have been told by the minister that he is not ready to meet with us and that is why it has become and legal issue, and we trust that our lawyers will deal with that».

The last straw was when I was told by the minister's adviser that I should look after myself.

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LONDON, May 3 - Making the current system of European Union market access for non-members more workable is Britain's best bet after Brexit as the more ambitious alternative sought by banks is unrealistic, Luxembourg's finance minister told Reuters.

The government will «take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto - assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» India's finance minister told lawmakers in New Delhi in February, according to a transcript by The Hindu newspaper.

Responding to the latest pro-unionist march in Catalonia, Raul Romeva, the region's foreign affairs minister, told CNBC on Sunday that there had been a larger pro-independence response from the Catalan people and that needed to be addressed by Madrid.

«The Spanish situation is still too fluid to predict, but like the German result, the PR disaster faced by Madrid and (Prime Minister Mariano) Rajoy's minority government are not reasons to be buying euros here, especially with the leveraged money community already long of euros,» Stephen Gallo, European head of FX Strategy at the Bank of Montreal, told CNBC via email.

Wong Chen, a member of Malaysia's parliament and a noted critic of the ruling Umno (United Malays National Organization) party headed by Prime Minister Najib Razak, told CNBC on Friday that the country's economic and political health were closely linked.

LONDON, May 3 (Reuters)- Making the current system of European Union market access for non-members more workable is Britain's best bet after Brexit as the more ambitious alternative sought by banks is unrealistic, Luxembourg's finance minister told Reuters.

A Japanese government source told Reuters in mid-March that Japan was considering seeking a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kim to discuss Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago.

«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

But Mr Kenny told the Socialist Party TD: «I reject your assertions of any comments made by our Minister for Finance at the eurogroup meeting.

MOSCOW, Nov 17 (Reuters)- Russian inflation will exceed forecasts to reach 9 percent by year end and rise further in early 2015 because of the rouble's weakness, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told radio Ekho Moskvy on Monday.

The Globe and Mail reported on Feb. 16 that Rosenberg, famous for predicting the U.S. housing bust, told his followers that he had heard that Finance Minister Bill Morneau is planning to «soak the rich» in his next budget by raising taxes on capital gains.

Employment Minister Jason Kenney, he who was told last summer to sell an unpopular skills training proposal to a set of provinces that was universally dismayed by the idea, quietly marched towards achieving the nearly impossible.

«To hear those words from him in what is his last political speech as an MP is actually, for me personally, very touching,» Kenney told reporters, coming as close as anybody would to affirming this was an era - ending speech by the former prime minister.

Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters the allegations were of a historic nature and investigations by police had started «some time ago».

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.»

They believe not because the priest or minister told them to have faith but rather because it helped their elderly grandmother avoid a long and agonizing death by taking her to heaven at the age of 51.

Rev Scott Rennie, who is the first openly gay minister appointed by the Church of Scotland, told Premier it's an important day for the Church.

Camus shrugged, «My experience is limited to my early church training and the little bit that you have told me,» he said, recalling that baptism is a religious rite performed by a priest or minister on a baby.

I like LBJ myself he had the balls to pick the canadian prime minister up by the throat and tell him not to come into his living room and pi ss on the rug.

When I joined the Army as a prison guard, I was told by my pastor and my churchy friends that I was sent there by God to minister to those in prison.

A Reformed Southern Baptist, Platt ministers by challenging audiences to a more intentional, Christ - centered vision of discipleship and belief, telling CT in a 2013 interview that following Jesus «is a total reorientation of life.

In the view of many — a view reinforced by subsequent revelations about his personal life — Kennedy was telling the Houston ministers and the nation that he was not a terribly serious Catholic.

When Jesus taught and ministered on earth, He did not simply tell people about a sweet by - and - by, where we could go when we die.

nobody... anyone who has worked on the street with the homeless will tell you that Christ is there... something envelopes you as you reach a bag of food out to someone... we go out to minister and are ministered to by The Loving Presence of Christ.

One of the Yale ministers told of helping to sobriety an alcoholic whom he had never had an opportunity to see, by helping the wife to change her attitudes toward him.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

The minister who told his psychotherapist, «My life is characterized by a plethora of contacts and a poverty of relationships,» was describing most of us.

In the late 1970s a Home Office Minister, advised by his Civil Servants, told me there was no paedophile problem in the United Kingdom despite the evidence presented to him by a deputation of MPs.

The ACCC told a Senate Inquiry yesterday that it disagrees with moves by Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, to allow competition law exemptions at grain ports.

Shortly after the meeting, Information Minister Lai Mohammed told journalists that President Muhammadu Buhari was advised by his doctors to stay away from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.

Talks with the government were dismissed earlier this month by general secretary Christine Blower, who told politics.co.uk she did not believe ministers were negotiating «in good faith».

«I think the idea of having an increase by one year in the retirement age is accepted,» deputy prime minister Nick Clegg told the BBC.

On the one side you have the Remain campaign, led by the prime minister, which is relentlessly and effectively telling voters about the risks of leaving the EU.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

The prime minister's official spokesperson today refused to comment on the story, telling reporters at a lobby briefing that «I'm not intending to dignify this book by commenting on it.»

A sixth school was labelled inadequate for its poor educational standards and another 12 were told to make improvements.Ofsted will be able to conduct snap inspections of any school with no warning, under new plans being drawn up by the prime minister ahead of what is expected to be a damning report into extremism in Birmingham schools.

Mrs May well remembers the «orchestrated and scripted» control exerted by Mr Cameron where Cabinet ministers were told what to say and to whom after weekly meetings.

«An important first step for ministers would be to tell the country how they will plug the financial gap left by their rushed defence review.»

In May 2012 the BHA was told by a whistleblower that the Free Schools team had expressed serious concern about the state funding of Steiner schools but that ministers chose to fund them anyway.

Former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind told the Today programme prime minister the prime minister was being put in an «impossible situation» by eurosceptics agitating for the division.

Whilst undergoing cancer treatment, Thangam Debonnaire was promoted to shadow arts and culture minister by Corbyn, before he sacked her a day later, without telling her on either occasion.

Maria Miller must have been holding her breath throughout, and although she had a firm and embarrassing telling - off by Bercow for giving a lengthy statement rather than answering topical questions, she was lucky no one asked her about how appropriate she was as the new equalities minister, considering she has voted against the criminalisation of hate speech.

Climate change minister Greg Barker told Politics.co.uk the Tories would seek to assist firms by making sure international objectives to lower CO2 emissions do not damage their business prospects.

Senior Tory sources have told the Guardian that the prime minister initially appeared to be swayed by the Treasury's proposals but had since backed away from them.

John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, told the BBC that he was «not happy» he found out about the millions loaned to the Labour Party by reading it in the papers but insisted the loans would later appear in the party's audited accounts.

It was when he made the extraordinary claim that he knew nothing about three crucial reports that had been commissioned from international experts by Labour Minister Lord Darzi (and not the Chief Medical Officer, as Nicholson told the Committee) to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the NHS.