Sentences with phrase «working as a civil servant»

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

I am a crane mechanic I work as a civil servant for the navy.

Tutu and baby Leilani stayed in Honolulu while Bob returned to San Francisco and began work as a civil servant.

December: Family moves to Everert, Washington, where his father begins working as a civil servant in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

The Commission found that the material was open to public view — Ms Baskerville had 700 followers and had not (then) «locked down» her account — and that the quoted material related to her work as a civil servant and was used as part of a debate about what use public servants should make of social media.

The Defence Engineering and Science Group (DESG) graduate scheme trains recruits to work as civil servants within the Ministry of Defence to equip and support the armed forces with technology.

Not exact matches

Greek ferry, bus and train services were disrupted and civil servants and doctors stopped work in nationwide walkout on Wednesday, as lawmakers debated austerity measures that lenders want the indebted country to implement.

As you said, once you arrive at your job as a civil servant, you should be there to do worAs you said, once you arrive at your job as a civil servant, you should be there to do woras a civil servant, you should be there to do work.

He won't do emails — insisting, instead, on working with a fountain pen as he goes through his red box each morning issuing marching orders to civil servants by writing on their papers.

The announcement comes as pressure grows on ministers to scrap a deal struck with civil servants in October, which allows existing workers to retire on a full pension at the age of 60, although new employees would have to work until 65.

While Raynsford is willing to challenge what he sees as some of the big shortcomings of modern government, Substance Not Spin is also peppered with praise for the civil servants he worked alongside.

He said it was a «great disappointment» for him as «for six years I have had the incredible privilege of working inside the Whitehall machine with civil servants helping ministers to make decisions».

The reasons why Quick raided Green's Commons office nearly nine years ago can be traced back even further, to a day in 2006 when a young civil servant called Christopher Galley, working in Jacqui Smith's Home Office, was allegedly told by Green, then opposition immigration spokesman, to get «as much dirt on the Labour party, the Labour government, as possible».

He is the son of a civil servant and worked as a lobbyist before being elected.

I had decided to rather work for government but not inside government so as to enjoy my liberty of self - expression and doing what I like rather than being another subservient civil servant.

Taking France as an example, most statutes stem from what's called a projet de loi, submitted by the government (and therefore drafted by professional civil servants working for a ministry).

Staff who administer the pensions of 1.5 million existing and retired civil servants have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action as part of a campaign against plans to privatise their work, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

Brussels - based civil servants work at UKREP - effectively a UK embassy in Brussels - as they prepare the groundwork for the PM and ministers when they work and negotiate with the European Union.

He said that the council also declared May 22 as work free day for civil servants in honour of the two Catholic priests and 17 parishioners in Ayar - Mbalom in Gwer Local Government Area, who were murdered on April 23.

Furthermore, to work as an EU civil servant, you need to speak at least two languages, one of them French, German, or English, and to be ready to learn a third one.

A consummate public servant and intellectual, he started his working career as a lecturer with the then University of Sokoto now known as Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, before joining the Kaduna State Civil Service.

As I understand it, short money is given to opposition parties for policy work etc because they don't have the same access to Civil Servants as Government PartieAs I understand it, short money is given to opposition parties for policy work etc because they don't have the same access to Civil Servants as Government Partieas Government Parties.

According to him, Governor Ayodele Fayose also enjoined civil servants in the state to work half - day, so as to give a heroic welcome to the released officials.

Over the past year, at least 70,000 Venezuelans have lost their jobs — as civil servants, teachers, taxi drivers, and more — and gone to work in swampy gold mines to make enough money to survive.

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

«Mister Johnson,» now directed by Bruce Beresford in his first film since «Driving Miss Daisy,» tells the story of an African civil servant, known to all as Mister Johnson, who works as a clerk in the office of the British district administrator.

Native to Saluda County, Mrs. Spearman's childhood laid the foundations of family, faith, and hard work that transcended into her professional career as an educator and civil servant.

The revelation comes as the senior civil servants prepare to take on extra work, with the government's education and adoption bill giving them responsibility for improving schools considered to be coasting (see page 5).

Spurred to action by the recognition that being an educator is as much about being a civil servant as a classroom practitioner, preservice teachers learned that praxis means working in the community, engaging in leadership activities, charting unknown territory, being responsible to others, and following through on commitments.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked from 1946 to 1979 as a civil servant for the Dutch Postal Service, Schoonhoven rose to artistic prominence as an active and influential member of the international avant garde.

Burney worked as an architect at David Brody Bond until 1990, when he embarked on a 24 - year career as one of New York's key civil servants: first as director of design at NYCHA until 2003, and then as Commissioner of the City's Department of Design and Construction from 2004 until 2014.

His home, shared with wife Annemarie Norton — a former ballet dancer, is a reflection of the individual as collector and can only be compared to the very personal collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, the American civil servants who were equally inspired to compile such an intimate group of works.

I am a Civil Servant and work for the US DOE, and I am as «skeptical» about man - made climate change as they come.

His message should serve as a beacon of light for those civil servants who feel the Trump Administration has dimmed the lights too darkly on the important work they do, and need to keep doing.

Instead it presents legal aid as an administrative challenge which, mainly through the successful introduction of digital working, the LAA civil servants claim they are meeting.

A civil servant who works for the Department of Trade and Industry and is appointed by the Court to act as: - i) a liquidator when a company is being wound up; ii) a trustee when an individual is made bankrupt.

As a civil servant, you will be judged on your competencies, rather than simply on your experience in a particular job, so it's possible to move from one area of work to another.

You will be qualified to work as a professional for a range of organizations in the public sector, including being employed as a civil servant in federal, state, or local governments.

Areas of special interest include: Anxiety in school aged children, parenting anxious or traumatized children, Helping professionals (therapists, civil servants, medical professionals) in therapy, expressive arts therapy and those working through transitional life issues such as divorce, becoming a parent or career changes.»

Thus we have within our midst some civil servants (paid by our tax dollars) who see the world as how it «should» work according to their particular political «suasions (they used to be called «Levellers» in old England).