Sentences with phrase «written by a minister»

And the original pledge was written by a minister.

Some of the most able defenses of slavery were written by ministers.

She sent me a copy of a form letter written by her minister that was meant for the congregation.

Not exact matches

Twenty - seven letters - 10 from Charles to ministers, 14 by ministers and three letters between private secretaries - written between September 2004 and March 2005 were published.

Mexicans are «perplexed by some of the recent calls in Canada for «dumping» Mexico from NAFTA and negotiating a bilateral deal with Washington,» Andrés Rozental, a former Mexican deputy foreign minister, wrote in the Globe and Mail on January 27.

«The ultimate decision to effect these terminations was made by the then deputy minister, your client,» Fyfe wrote.

«We are writing to set out Mr. Whitmarsh's concerns with respect to the manner in which the Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Adams.

In it he shared a post written by geopolitical strategist George Friedman that describes a recent meeting among six foreign ministers representing the European Union's founding member states: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Jack Mintz, a former adviser to the Department of Finance and the Prime Minister, wrote in the Globe and Mail «It is also poor policy by steepening the wall of taxation faced by growing firms.

Pierre Trudeau had always been fascinated by Asia: he had backpacked through the region in 1948, wrote a book on China in 1956, and as Prime Minister had recognized the People's Republic of China diplomatically years before President Nixon's famous trip to Beijing.

Trudeau acknowledged that none of these measures would have prevented the kind of controversy that has been boiling over the past few weeks, stemming from a $ 90,172 cheque written by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to repay wrongful expenses by Sen. Mike Duffy, who has since quit the Conservative caucus.

I am writing as one of your constituents to express my concern about the tax proposals put forth by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

A letter appears in today's Globe and Mail in response to recent direction given by Minister Flaherty to private mortgage lenders over mortgage rates. The letter was written by Steve Pomeroy, one of Canada's leading housing policy experts.

No God wrote any bible as the bible is simply a book of compiled stories written by people and the bible was actually written 300 years after the birth of Jesus (if he was) and the reality is most American ministers, priest, etc could have never read the first bible since it was written in Greek and changed over, and over, and over again.

Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?

Clinical students, spending hours writing up a pastoral call so that it could be analyzed — and seeing the immense complexities in the person and relationship — were startled by the breezy minister from outside the hospital who rolled in, issued a few exhortations and a prayer, and departed happy that he had done his stint.

In 1907 all these strivings and yearnings were caught up in a dramatic book written by a Baptist minister and professor of Church history, Walter Rauschenbusch.

The pastoral letter by Bishop Huyghes of Arras was written in March 1972 on the occasion of a visit by the French Prime Minister, M. J. Chaban - Delmas, following demonstrations by workers: «Christians, both workers and officials, joined their comrades in the legitimate defense of their employment, which is increasingly under fire in the region.

The Bishop of Leeds has written to the Prime Minister in a strong attack backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

«You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all human beings, and thereby made visible that you are a letter of Christ being ministered to by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on the physical tablets of the heart.»

The Pledge was originally written in 1892 by a former Baptist minister who made no reference to religion in his version.

It would be invidious to mention the names of popular books which commend prayer and set forth techniques of praying, but are so alien to the whole Christian position — although written sometimes by ministers of Christian bodies — that it is astounding that they are accepted so readily by people who profess and call themselves Christians.

Now the operation of Faith comes with the Will of God to have Christ formed in us: The Faith of Christ will do (bring in His works) for that to be a reality in our own lives as we are fed the truth through the words of Jesus and Paul (Jesus said the words that I speak are Spirit and Life) Paul said; I am of Christ, therefore; as we heed to all that is written by Jesus and Paul to have that excellent work done in us, to even take us from Faith to Faith (in His greater works) and from Glory to Glory (up in His life as we mature); then we too can come to the place where even as Paul says: I am Crucified with Christ, yet; I live, yet; not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live now, I live by the FAITH of the Son of God who gave His life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in you:

In Zürich, the early practice of calling and ordaining a minister, according to an Order for Preachers written by Leo Jud and Henry Bullinger, was as follows: A commission of examiners consisting of two ministers, two members of the City Council, and two laymen experienced in the reading of the Bible, examined the candidates who either had been proposed or had applied to be called to a vacant ministerial office.

The importance which was attached to the choosing of the minister is impressively reflected in a passage of Calvin's Institutes where he writes: «Whenever a controversy arises respecting religion, which requires to be decided by a council or ecclesiastical judgment; whenever a minister is to be chosen, in short, whenever anything of difficulty or great importance is transacting;... it is a pious custom and beneficial in all ages, for the pastors to exhort the people to public fasts and extraordinary prayers.»

I should have written Sir Laurens van der Post, because after taking Prince Charles on safari and consulting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1981.

That threat is now emerging after today's judgment from Lord Neuberger, the culmination of a ten - year campaign by the Guardian newspaper, forced the prime minister to accept the government must now consider how to release the 27 «black spider» letters written by the heir to the throne in 2004 and 2005.

Sinn Fein have called on the DUP to agree to power sharing by the deadline and chief negotiator Martin McGuiness has written to Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain to confirm he will serve as deputy first minister if asked.

Written by the award - winning Kevin Toolis, the one - man show is on its way to the Edinburgh Festival where, judging by the buzz it has already created after a short preview run in London, punters will be lining up with morbid curiosity to renew acquaintances with a man whom Toolis believes is the worst prime minister in over two centuries.

Gladstone byRoy Jenkins as it's a brilliantly written study of a maturing, progressive prime minister prematurely hounded from office by reactionaries at the age of 82.

His comments follows a directive by the National Council of the NPP for Bugri Naabu and Otiko Djaba to apologise with written letter after their public spat which birthed claims the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari, was involved in the murder the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the NPP, Adams Mahama.

Journalists who were quick to criticise and write off your carefully thought through pronouncements as a Minister will hang on your every word when you are no longer bound by collective responsibility and are prepared to offer a disobliging view on the current incumbents.

Donald Tusk has written to Theresa May to congratulate her on being reappointed prime minister and warning that the timeframe set by Article 50 leaves no time to lose.

Michael Gove's elegantly written statement as to why he is in favour of «out» has distinct echoes with the case put by the Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn in 1975 and subsequently.

The book, written by former Telegraph journalist Rosa Prince, is said to detail the story of «one of the most extraordinary people ever» to become prime minister.

The concern about the neglect of the English issue was echoed by Jamie Reed, the shadow health minister who wrote in Progress magazine: «It is in the peripheral areas outside of our major conurbations all over England where the next Labour government must concentrate its efforts.»

[22] The Industrial Relations Act 1971, introduced by Robert Carr (Employment Minister in Edward Heath's cabinet), provided that collective agreements were binding, unless a contact clause in writing declared otherwise.

Without doubt the best book written to date by a minister inside the Conservative - LibDem Coalition is David Laws Coalition The Inside Story of the Conservative — Liberal Democrat Government (Biteback # 25).

A similar written statement was made to parliament by the prisons minister but, again, no amounts were given.

Dear Michael, I am writing to you after reading the response of your Schools Minister Lord Nash on 6 February to a parliamentary question tabled by Lord Taylor of Warwick (HL 4987).

The letter accepting the presidency's directive to SSNIT to be part of the project was written on August 19, 2016 by Albert W.S. Essamuah, Managing Director of Albert Essamuah Associates Limited, who are the Supervising Consultants of the project; and said they were appointed by the government through the Ministry of Transport under former Minister, Dzifa Attivor and Anator Holding, proponents, to establish the Master Plan Implementation Office which comprises the legal technical and financial structure to organize, follow and monitor the realization of the preliminary and implementation phases of the SEZ project.

Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow asking for his assistance in establishing a «house - wide mediation service» supported by a «contractually binding grievance procedure» that would be available for all MPs.

Sturgeon earlier wrote in an article for the Times that her moves towards a second referendum were prompted by the prime minister's «sheer intransigence», in a further effort to push May into fresh concessions.

In 2009, Gordon Brown confirmed [36] that the process remains as set out in 1994 by the then Prime Minister John Major in a written answer to the House of Commons:

The speech — written by prime minister David Cameron — outlined the new government's ambitious policy agenda for the coming year.

The Israeli ambassador to Britain has written to the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, to express his abhorrence at «offensive and shocking» comments made by David Ward MP on the presence of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the solidarity march in Paris on Sunday.

«The fact that the decision to release was taken by the Scottish justice secretary does not preclude you, as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, from now expressing your opinion on a subject that is of great public concern, and which affects Britain's international reputation and our relations with our allies,» he wrote.

Writing in the Sunday Times (paywall), the prime minister acknowledged there were «profound areas of disagreement» between the Liberal Democrats and members of the Conservative party, 91 of whom rebelled last week against a reform package for the upper house championed by Nick Clegg.

The former minister first came under investigation in 2013 after a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), wrote a petition against her for allegedly approving the purchase of two BMW vehicles worth N225m by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority in breach of the Public Procurement Act.

The presidential spokesman maintained that Obasanjo's comments are «not different» from the letter he wrote to Buhari in January, stating that, «what former president Obasanjo has just said is not different from what he said in his letter of January 23 and an adequate response has been given to that letter by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.