Sentences with phrase «working in parliament»

«The experience of working in Parliament changed my life and those debates over the War Measures Act confirmed my interest in criminal law.»

MPs from across the political divide have been accused of sexually harassing and sexually assaulting aides working in Parliament.

For many observers — among them a handful of political journalists who were working in Parliament when Sir John was prime minister — this had been one of the most impressive speech they had ever seen given at a press gallery lunch.

A leaked draft of an earlier version of the report outlined recommendations for a new independent complaints system, online learning modules for MPs, an HR service for staff working in parliament, and a specialist helpline.

Then, finally, how have you guys approached working in parliament and what successes can you point to?

Indeed, yesterday it was reported that one in five people working in parliament had experienced or witnessed sexual harassment.

I was delighted to learn that he was now working in Parliament for a newly - elected MP and promised him to take him out for a few drinks later that week.

This is virtually impossible in a public vote (but it might work in a parliament with good factional discipline).

In the past, former Ministers often combined their work in parliament with lucrative outside interests.

Real social change is to be achieved over the long term through organisation, agitation, and direct action, as much as it is through debates, votes, and detailed committee work in parliament.

Peter Franklin, who works in Parliament for Greg Clark MP, writes this first essay in a personal capacity.

Introduced in 1975 and named after the then leader of the House, Edward Short, this is a form of ring - fenced public funding of opposition parties to assist their work in parliament.

Painful meetingI was heading to work in Parliament for my first day as an intern to an MP.

3) What works in parliament works in the TV studios.

Attlee and Churchill worked together very smoothly, with Attlee working backstage to handle much of the detail and organisational work in Parliament, as Churchill took centre stage with his attention on diplomacy, military policy, and broader issues.

«We are determined to carry on working to get a solution that will deliver for the victims, and that will be done obviously through work in parliament.»

He has previously worked in Parliament for Edward Leigh MP.

Up to July 2015, he worked in Parliament through the All Party Parliamentary Group APPG for East Asian Business which he chaired, the All Party Parliamentary China Group [32] of which he was the vice-Chair (special focus on Hong Kong), and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment [33] of which he was treasurer to promote better trade and political and cultural links between the UK and East Asia and work to encourage the next generation of East Asians and other diaspora to develop the leadership skills to play a greater role in public life, in society, and business, and in harnessing the resources that East Asians have globally and locally both financial and non-financial to address global and local problems today.These groups were discontinued after the May 2015 election.

I was in charge of Margaret Thatcher's leader of the opposition office in 1975 when Ted Short, the leader of the House of Commons, introduced his measure, which was designed to assist our work in parliament with state funding.

«Art works in Parliament are thorns in the side of politicians who generally do not for a moment understand them.

I buy solar panel and I work in the Parliament 1/3 of my time and energy to combat climate change».

Not exact matches

Johnston, welcoming MPs back to work after a month - long delay, opened the speech by noting that «the eyes and ears of Canadians turn toward this Parliament, in trust that those who stand here in their place will relentlessly advance and uphold the ideals that are inclusive, honourable, selfless, smart and caring at every turn without fail.»

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

Back in 2008, when he made his first (unsucessful) bid for a spot in parliament, he gave an interview to Investment Executive, which noted his wish to work with Flaherty on unifying the provincial securities regulators:

In testimony to the UK parliament yesterday, CA whistleblower Chris Wylie told MPs that senior Palantir employees worked with the firm on the Facebook data to help it build models off of the dataset to use for political ad targeting purposes.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

It was decided that the Parliamentary Budget Officer would report to the Head of the Library of Parliament, who in turn would «control» the budget and work of the Parliamentary Budget Office.

Tom worked as regional policy advisor to the Leader of the Opposition in the South Australian Parliament before working at Elders Rural Services, one of Australia's largest agri - retailers, from 2006 - 2013.

«The Committee believes that the work of the PBO has been useful for members of Parliament and for standing committees,» the committee reports, «and that having this office located within the Library of Parliament has created unnecessary confusion in its mandate.»

I hope you find it a helpful resource, whether you are searching for more information about my work as a Member of Parliament, ways in which my office can be of service to you, or the Conservative Party and its policies.

Jacques Saada, a former Liberal member of Parliament now working in the aerospace industry, said that the process led to nine partners to opt for the F - 35.

In 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policIn 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policin the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policin working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policy.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

He had close connections with other organizers, with working - class individuals and groups, and with individual Whigs and Radicals in Parliament and Cabinet.

Christian Zionists work closely with religious and secular Jewish Zionist organizations and the Israeli government, particularly during periods when the more conservative Likud Party is in control of the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

Also, I like what a A Finnish MEP (a politician in the European Parliament) says in her work statement: that a mortal can not strive in everything, so she has three main causes she is fighting / working for.

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

The 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions was, to my mind, a turning point in interfaith work.

1975 filled with the Spirit and spoke in tongues 1976 graduated from Newmarket High School 1977 worked as a security guard at Toronto's parliament buildings.

A couple of examples are; that it is the church that established universities, it is the church that established hospitals, it was church people who worked to abolish slavery in the west, church people lobbied the British Parliament for an age of consent, the emancipation of women comes from Christian teaching.

Since the special events held in 1993 in India, Britain, Japan, the USA and some other countries to mark the centenary of the World's Parliament of Religions there has been growing emphasis on the practical work that people of different faiths can do together to address the critical issues of today, such as violence, poverty and pollution.

Yet, having encountered Christ and the Church through FAITH or some other of piece of Providence, they often express a desire to «do something for the Church» or even to «work full - time for the Church,» and they look towards the pro-life movement which now has salaried positions to offer, or think about one of the internships offered in Parliament or elsewhere through the scheme initiated by the Bishops» Conference.

He worked at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), before being elected to the Commonwealth Parliament as Australian Labor Party member for Macarthur in 1972.

«So I would say I am a little frustrated because I would expect that we shouldn't have to issue notices to produce with respect to information if an organisation is working in partnership with us,» James told parliament.

As regards to the EU professional footballers and the none EU / UK ones who will caught up by Brexit as they are still plying their trades in the UK when the Brexit comes to effect, for the EU footballers and EU managers, to me, of course they should automatically have their former status of freedom or rights to play / work freely in the UK as if they are UK citizens forfeited and should be henceforth be treated as foreigners subjected to comply with the new UK laws so reviewed by the London Supreme court and passed into Law by an act Parliament.

Will also managed the public affairs team at the Commission for Racial Equality and worked for 5 years in Parliament as a researcher.

We also work to make breastmilk substitutes and baby foods safer for those parents who use them — and contributed to an important victory in this regard at the European Parliament this month (more on that later in part 2 of this blog post).

Baby Milk Action worked with Richard Howitt MEP, who appears in the first Mark Thomas film, on the first public hearing into corporate malpractice held by the European Parliament's Development Committee.

There are also two works by the thoroughly intense artist Agamaria Pasternak, which together contain the faces of every single MPs in a parliament.

Outside parliament, Labour MPs rallied at a picket line to back workers who have refused to work in the Palace of Westminster.