Sentences with phrase «when key ministers»

The construction boss (Tony Leung Ka - fai) is under intense deadline pressure when key ministers of the empress start bursting into flames and are swiftly reduced to ashes.

Not exact matches

In a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriage.

I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

Following a day when confusion reigned, TPP trade ministers agree to key changes that appear to move talks closer to a deal

This was a serious problem; how could I become a minister when I had no conviction about this key point of doctrine?

«In the words of the Minister's office, it is difficult to «share ideas from experts and the community about ways to improve the health of Western Australians» and «encourage broader thinking and community engagement» when so many key players have been omitted from this important discussion,» said Mr Geoff Parker, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Beverages Council.

Separate revelations in a new David Cameron biography, «Practically a Conservative», suggest he and the prime minister backed down on a key demand when they hired Mr Coulson as director of communications.

Members of the Niger Delta Dialogue Team, otherwise known as Pan Niger Delta Group, led by former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, will today (Saturday) meet in Abuja to decide on the key issues to be discussed when they meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday next week.

It seems that ministers were concerned about the political and financial costs of an increase in homeless young people at a time when it has made reducing rough sleeping a key aim.

When former President Olusegun Obasanjo was a military ruler in the 1970s, Mr Buhari held the key post of minister of petroleum affairs.

The Deputy Minister stressed Nana Addo's current position on the subject is a significant endorsement of President Mahama's vision, especially when key NPP officials had sought to oppose and ridicule the technical university concept.

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

Labour shadow minister Ian Austin, who was a parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown when he was PM, and was often involved in preparations for PMQs, said to me last week: «can you imagine Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Major or Margaret Thatcher not knowing about a key measure in their own reforms»?

Joint jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs could be decided by ministers from both parliaments or representative Scottish MSPs coming to Westminster only when key defence or foreign affairs votes need to take place.

And when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda came to Washington to meet President John F. Kennedy for the first time, in 1961, the key objective was to try to figure out how to build stronger relationships between the societies.

When the Prime Minister spoke last Friday he made clear that we would govern as One Nation with a clear commitment to social justice, he, like me, firmly believes that education is the key to achieving that.

When bumping up bursaries last year, schools minister Nick Gibb said: «To ensure we can continue to attract the best and brightest graduates into the profession, with the potential to be excellent teachers in these key subjects, we are continuing to offer a wide range of bursaries and scholarships.

It is natural, then, that when last summer a number of cabinet ministers announced the review of four key federal environmental laws, West Coast Environmental Law — along with other lawyers, academics, environmental groups, Indigenous peoples and the general public — took a keen interest.

When the Government was elected, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, regularly promoted the IEDS as the Government's key policy platform for Indigenous affairs.