Sentences with phrase «years as a civil servant»

In «The Museum of Final Journeys,» the narrator remembers his early years as a civil servant in a changing country and a private museum filled to the brim with fine art and sculpture moldering away in the middle of the woods.

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That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

We recalculated the figures as far as possible to reflect a common definition, but in the 2000s about 15 - 20 % of civil servants were reclassified in one year, and further reclassifications have occurred since then.

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

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».

This year, the local party nominated as its candidate Richard Reichard, a retired civil servant and former president of the Staten Island Democratic Association club.

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».

When the erstwhile super Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala compelled the termination of my appointment as a civil servant after serving my nation for nearly 20 years, I returned to my hobby of writing.

The document was prepared by Hugh Ind, the director general of the Home Office's immigration enforcement agency, in June last year and copied to Rudd and Lewis, the then immigration minister, as well as several senior civil servants and special advisers.

Godric Smith, the civil servant who gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry about his limited role in the decision to «out» the late Dr David Kelly as a suspected leaker, has been trying to leave Downing Street for much of the year.

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.

In the 20 years since her graduation, the Jamaica native spent her time mothering five children, consulting on early childhood development, and serving as an international civil servant.

Get the best deal Wayne Carle, a 46 - year - old civil servant, has embarked on a total of 16 cruises in as many years with his wife Tammy.

Jack, a civil servant, has a pre-tax income of $ 96,000 per year and adds almost $ 14,000 per year from the Canada Child Benefit, a sum which will plummet as the children approach the cutoff at 17.

«My philosophy is to hold a stock as long as it still has fundamental attractiveness,» says Milotte, a 39 - year - old federal civil servant.

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.

In fact, that exemption is more narrow than people are realizing — there is in fact no real exemption for the children of military or diplomatic families, such as the thousands born over the decades at CFB Lahr, or every year to diplomats and other federal / provincial civil servants world wide.

It was established in this treaty that the persons who reside in the territory of Lithuania on the day of its ratification and «who themselves or whose parents permanently reside in Lithuania or who were entered into the communities of settlements, towns or estates in the territory of Lithuania», as well as the persons who had resided in Lithuania for not less than ten years by 1914 and who had permanent jobs, «excluding the former civil and military servants, of non-Lithuanian origin, with their families» are recognised as citizens of the State of Lithuania.

As the UK enters the two - year countdown to Brexit, government lawyers and civil servants will be wading through a massive amount of legislation.

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