Going on holiday without a school's permission is tantamount to truancy, said the junior education minister. |
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First I would like to acknowledge, as the minister did, your presence and to say simply tena koutou. |
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A Maori language group says that the minister needs to taihoa on any changes to Maori language agencies. |
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The prime minister is slated to sit through an hour-long audio-visual presentation on infrastructure requirements in the state. |
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He has much to say about Emerson's later career as a lyceum lecturer, little about his early career as a Unitarian minister. |
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Is a second-home allowance fiddler, or a serial tax-dodger, an acceptable minister of the crown? |
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For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance. |
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The minister saw our point and was quite enthusiastic about the idea provided the Government's financial situation was safeguarded. |
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Yet she had to meet that demand without any of the formal backup that a minister or minor royal would take for granted. |
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Had staff consulted with the minister and agreed to feign communication breakdown so as not to have to deal with my awkward questions? |
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He is a son of the manse, he would have liked him to be a minister rather than a politician. |
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The first minister began a four-day visit to the Olympic games in Athens yesterday to cheer on Scots athletes. |
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I listened with great care and attention to a detailed and lengthy statement from the prime minister. |
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The prime minister is not sufficiently restored in authority that he can risk making a move against his still formidable Chancellor. |
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He would have made a great prime minister, if only the media would have gone easier on him. |
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Kaore te Aroha is the tangi of a father for his daughter, who drowned swimming across from Mokoia island to meet the first minister at Ohinemutu. |
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A Government minister cannot bargain with individual members of the magistracy. |
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The minister has lectured all that would listen that his new system is tamper-proof and idiot-proof. |
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These are hands-off, no-go, sacrosanct areas that the British prime minister cannot afford to have tampered with. |
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The prime minister has taken not only the centre ground, but a good chunk of the rightwing terrain as well. |
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Last week the Balearic government's tourism minister flew to the island only to be greeted by striking airport workers. |
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Whittred, previously the minister of state for Intermediate, Long-term and Home Care, was the other North Shore loser in the cabinet shuffle. |
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The German minister was murdered on his way to the foreign office on 20 June, and that afternoon the legations were attacked. |
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Despite being politically inactive, he was accused of being a Russophile and was even framed for organising a plot against the prime minister. |
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The defense minister and legislators should delve further into her words before reacting. |
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We were the first province to have female legislators and a female cabinet minister. |
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A separate planned shake-up of Executive departments would aim to ensure that civil servants are only answerable to one minister. |
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But this is more a case of a junior minister trying to hog the limelight and getting frazzled through idiocy. |
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In 1994, the then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama apologized personally to all Asian peoples for Japan's colonial rule and wartime actions. |
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They printed photos of the defence minister trying to watch military manoeuvres through binoculars with the lens caps still on. |
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This allowed the return of the Shah family to power and, eventually, the appointment of a non-Rana as prime minister. |
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Workers in Rotterdam harbour had struck for 24 hours, and young anti-capitalists pulled down a mock statue of the prime minister. |
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The prime minister has warned other Arab nations to be wary of who they let in. |
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No longer are you just up against the straight-A kid who lettered in four sports and whose minister wrote a letter praising his virtues. |
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Throughout his speech, the minister talked about culture as an instrument for social improvement. |
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A meeting is being scheduled for March with the new minister, Lord Watson, and a bailie, the council's culture and leisure convener. |
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The assembly will in turn elect a prime minister or president, who will appoint cabinet officers. |
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The ride did sit well with the team sponsor and his country's minister of sport, who rode shotgun in the team's car. |
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How much more while the antitypical atonement is going on in heaven, should those who minister in sacred things be holy. |
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Huff portrays a minister, a paramedic, a right-to-die advocate, a local pet mortician, an ex-boyfriend and her own mother. |
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The most severe criticisms journalists can make of a government minister is that they act in bad faith, are disloyal and are untrustworthy. |
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Thus a portrait of William Pitt the Younger, undertaken as a faithful likeness, portrayed the prime minister with an overly sharp nose. |
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But there is no easy exit from the public limelight for Cullen, now the transport minister. |
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I mean, God had taken me a murderer, and I feel that he's made me into a minister, just like he's done to the apostle Paul. |
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The minister said he would not preside over the closure of any railway lines. |
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As for the minister, this won't be the first time he has talked big but achieved much less. |
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By 1998, he was the most popular British prime minister in recorded history, still at the height of his honeymoon period. |
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Today's backdown is a vote of no-confidence in the Employment Advocate by his new minister. |
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No minister was going to worry about a pay dispute rumbling on in the mining industry. |
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In most ancient church buildings the apse was to the east, so the presiding minister stood between the altar and the people. |
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Up to 100,000 people move from towns into rural areas a year, said the minister. |
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The minister has lobbied the European Commission in support of a financial rescue package. |
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She then trained to be a local preacher, candidated for the ministry and spent three years training to be a minister. |
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To think that a ruling coalition will allow its nominated prime minister to be defeated in an election is inconceivable. |
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It has also been home to an admiral, a church minister and a teacher as well as being a hunting lodge. |
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The junior minister had only just been telling us that she was having no truck with those that would claim ignorance at this stage of the game. |
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As a Liberal, Adelard Godbout was a supporter of Mackenzie King, the prime minister of Canada, and a royalist in sympathy with the British cause. |
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As a result of political party demonstrations against the royally appointed government, the prime minister resigned. |
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With the chancellor in the ascendant, the trade minister will be hoping for a promotion. |
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A church minister and his wife have celebrated their ruby wedding with friends and congregation at Sandcross Lane Church, Woodhatch. |
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The prime minister is afraid that his protestations will be lost in the synthetic public outrage that is being loosed by the Eurosceptic media. |
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Born premature and always small in stature, Lord John Russell served twice as prime minister. |
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But a minister whose policy is unpopular with some of his own backbenchers may find opposition support embarrassing. |
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My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a minister and a high school guidance counselor. |
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From the constable to the cabinet minister, everyone, or at least almost everyone is on the take. |
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And it was a really appalling hanging, in the respect that the minister kept them on the scaffold waiting for 25 minutes as he gave a sermon. |
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In Thailand the internet has nurtured an unprecedented civic consciousness and a new anti-corruption watchdog has claimed the scalp of the interior minister. |
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In doing so, the author presents a balanced account of the successes and the failures of Italy's greatest prime minister of the twentieth century. |
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The minister has shown she is long on rhetoric but short on action. |
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The powers of the president largely a ceremonial post will be shared by the prime minister and the speaker of the lower chamber of parliament until a successor can be found. |
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He travelled with a relative, an 80-year-old German-speaking Methodist minister whose own antecedents had come from the house which Mr Bovenizer still occupies. |
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The bride, the former Shelby Drake, is a teacher and the daughter of a minister. |
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The minister of war, Kuropatkin, was appointed to command the Far Eastern land forces and, no doubt familiar with War and Peace, adopted a strategy of retreat. |
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If opposition deputies find that the junior minister had indeed leaked the news before the budget announcement they would no doubt be baying for his resignation. |
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The Maoists offered to resume negotiations with the prime minister. |
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Representing France instead was Fleur Pellerin, 41, the brilliant minister of Internet, small businesses, and innovations. |
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Even our prime minister felt it necessary to proclaim his secular outlook by donning what looked like an inverted tea cosy on his head at his annual iftar. |
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He was thrilled when I told him I was planning to become a Methodist minister and that our daughter, Sarah, was training to become a local preacher. |
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Rudd is polling ahead of both gillard and the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, as preferred prime minister. |
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He handled the foot-and-mouth crisis a few years back with an assured confidence and leadership not displayed by any minister in any crisis for years. |
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The foreign minister was particularly scorned for going to the opera on Sunday night and not turning up for work until 31 hours after the earthquake. |
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It has been suggested so far that the more popular or media-centred depiction of the prime minister as an autocrat may be more of a caricature than an accurate portrait. |
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Winter said he was fortunate enough to be able to minister to a number of the families at the armory that had a family member missing in the attack. |
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Norway has indicated it has suspended formal involvement in the talks, adding to the pressure on the prime minister and the president to end the political stalemate. |
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They may not be as noticeable as other buildings owned by the church, but their size and quality are testimony to the standing and authority the local minister once had. |
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A Libyan official said senussi was being held with other former regime members, including a former prime minister. |
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He was invited back by the prime minister and by the president, and he was assured of safe conduct and that the legal issue will be resolved in a legal way. |
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I married the daughter of a former Methodist minister and spent the past year gallivanting through 52 different churches. |
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At that sit-down, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will come face to face with his counterpart, John Kerry. |
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The minister of oil and vinegar dispatched a locksmith to change the locks on the Registrar General door, and had the Governor General read the writ of dismissal. |
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The minister said events of such magnitude had a positive impact on a country's economy as they boosted the tourism sector and also helped in upgrading of infrastructure. |
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Reynders, who also serves as deputy prime minister, hurried to the scene, saw two bodies, and called paramedics. |
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When Wu, as minister of pubic health, went to Henan on an official visit, she asked to talk to Gao. |
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A former prime minister, Ayad Allawi, is a Shiite with humongous support among Sunnis. |
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The minister also announced that funding from the national department to tertiary level services has doubled from R62m to R124m this financial year. |
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Overnight he assumed control of the domestic agenda in a manner that surprised the prime minister, shocked his cabinet colleagues and astounded Whitehall's officials. |
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At a national level, the centre-right coalition Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of fanning the flames of anti-foreigner discrimination. |
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Among followers he and his assistant minister are spoken of in gushing terms. |
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And thus was sown a seed that may, however extraordinary it may seem, destroy the prime minister. |
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He was lunched by the prime minister and dined by the president. |
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Thomas Cromwell was the minister of Henry VIII, facilitator of his marriage to Anne Boleyn, and master of the English Reformation. |
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The current legal provision that privatisation appraisals of foreign-trade companies are subject to approval by the finance minister will be revoked. |
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The local people apprised the Chief minister about their problems. |
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During her school years, after her father had left his parish to become a roving minister, she came into contact with the larger Baptist community. |
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However, the minister was at pains to stress the need for greater co-operation between third-level colleges if the fourth tier is to become a success. |
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But finally seeing the court rule in favor of fairness comes as a relief to minister Heidi Walls. |
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Last summer, the finance minister put new mortgage rules into place in an attempt to engineer a slowdown. |
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Kerry arrived this weekend in Vienna to begin talks with Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif. |
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In 2011, goa's former tourism minister Mickky Pacheco was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for slapping an official. |
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Namibians were thrown a curved ball this week when the President abruptly announced a minor cabinet shuffle, which included the sacking of a minister and his deputy. |
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London's ex-police chief has launched a vitriolic attack on the minister. |
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After a cabinet shuffle last year, he was made minister of community government and transportation, as well as culture, language, elders and youth. |
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In recent months foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted on keeping the negotiating details confidential. |
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The plan received backing from the Foreign Office minister, who said there is already an Executive presence in the Paris embassy and he hopes the practice can spread. |
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Bruce Prescott, a Baptist minister, notes that workers in the twenty-one states with right-to-work laws earn 15 percent less on average than workers in other states. |
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But the fact that American conservatives like harper is not proof the prime minister is some ultra-right-wing hack. |
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From the lowly clerk, to the highly placed minister, everyone is corrupt. |
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Having intervened the minister attorned to the jurisdiction of the court. |
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Britain's first blind prime minister would certainly have tabloid appeal. |
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For the health minister to claim otherwise is him talking through his hat. |
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Methodist minister the Rev Ruth Parry said church members were elated that the planning wrangle, which had been rumbling on for many years, was finally over. |
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Helen Clark, a former prime minister, suggested removing the Union Jack but keeping the Southern Cross on a blue background. |
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I will be a prime minister who rolls up his sleeves and gets things done. |
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In the meantime antiterrorist action will be taken to hold the ring, to limit violence to what a British minister once unguardedly called an acceptable level. |
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An older and rueful prime minister may reflect that some of the optimism felt on that spring day in 1997 is still around, and maybe he can take some credit for that. |
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The minister has asked Brady about the feasibility of a procedure used in Canada, which allows a jury to consider statements that have been retracted by the witnesses. |
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One of them is the appeal filed by Professor Ljubomir Frckoski, whom the commission lustrated as a former interior minister. |
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A CABINET minister raised fears of a return to 1930s fascism, comparing modern right wing groups to Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. |
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In that regard, the prime minister called for a new electoral law that would blend both proportional and majoritarian systems. |
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According to the minister, the rise in staff cost is majorly on account of pay revision and arrears. |
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Most Ugandans were engaged in Bodaboda business before they were banned by the minister of interior two months ago. |
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It has been criticised by both ex-sports minister Richard Caborn and London Assembly Conservatives' Olympic spokesman Andrew Boff. |
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The minister who launched the beach-cleaning up event warned against risks of water pollution lest that the sea turns into a huge dumping pit. |
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Her finance minister, Geoffrey Howe, resigned over the issue. |
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When Mr Gladstone appeared on the Tyne he heard cheer no other English minister ever heard. |
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On 16 September 2003 the prime minister, Tony Blair, opened the first section of High Speed 1, from Folkestone to north Kent. |
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Often the minister of finance will appoint the governor in consultation with the central bank's board and its incumbent governor. |
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James Callaghan, who was British prime minister from 1976 to 1979, was born and raised in Portsmouth. |
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Although Priestley considered moving to America, he eventually accepted Birmingham New Meeting's offer to be their minister. |
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In 1914, Olive and Noel Middleton had married at Leeds' Mill Hill Chapel, which Priestly, as its minister, had once guided towards Unitarianism. |
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Thomas Bayes was the son of London Presbyterian minister Joshua Bayes, and was possibly born in Hertfordshire. |
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Work on the Birmingham Metro tram extension began in June 2012, launched by transport minister Norman Baker. |
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However, when David Cameron became prime minister, he held his cabinet meetings on Thursdays again. |
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In practice, Cabinet ministers will usually have a junior minister to represent their department in the House of Lords. |
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On 16 July 1990, Malta, through its foreign minister, Guido de Marco, applied to join the European Union. |
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Mushtaq interned four prominent associates of Mujib, including Bangladesh's first prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad. |
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In 1991, finance minister Saifur Rahman launched a range of liberal reforms. |
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The Home Office is headed by the Home Secretary, a Cabinet minister supported by the department's senior civil servant, the Permanent Secretary. |
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These are not ordained, nor generally considered ministers unless also engaged in one of the lay minister categories above. |
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Ordinary presbyters are in turn overseen by a superintendent, who is the most senior minister in a circuit. |
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The church council, with a minister, has responsibility for running the local church. |
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In 1976 the future Labour prime minister James Callaghan launched what became known as the 'great debate' on the education system. |
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It is a national degree and its requirements are fixed by the minister of higher education and research. |
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By English law and custom they may only elect the person who has been nominated by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister. |
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It is among the UK's most popular dishes, leading a government minister, Robin Cook, to claim in 2001 that it was a British national dish. |
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Wright, although placed under house arrest on the orders of Lord Burghley, was permitted to minister to the inmates of London prisons. |
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Rowling is a friend of Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, whom she met when they collaborated on a charitable project. |
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Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. |
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By the start of July, Pitt was recalled, and the Duke of Newcastle returned as prime minister. |
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Huguenot minister Daniel Chamier is among his ancestors, as is Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet. |
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The incumbent, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, is the See's equivalent of a prime minister. |
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On a vote of no confidence, the Folketing may force a single minister or the entire government to resign. |
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The Faroese minister of fisheries negotiates with the EU and other countries regarding the rights to fish. |
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The minister is appointed by the First Minister and is a Junior Minister in the Scottish Government, who does not attend cabinet. |
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Members Business is a debate on a motion proposed by an MSP who is not a Scottish minister. |
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Even after meeting all the requirements and going through the naturalization process, the minister holds the right to deny citizenship. |
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The minister can also grant citizenship to minors, if their parent applies for them. |
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The minister also holds the power to revoke naturalization at any time for specific reasons listed in the Act. |
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Yes Scotland and deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon have said the existing welfare system can only be guaranteed by voting for independence. |
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Six years later, in 1963, Macmillan resigned and advised the Queen to appoint the Earl of Home as prime minister, advice that she followed. |
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The Queen again came under criticism for appointing the prime minister on the advice of a small number of ministers or a single minister. |
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Czech prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka suggested that the Czech Republic would start discussions on leaving the EU if the UK voted for an EU exit. |
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Canadian finance minister Paul Martin was chosen to be the first chairman and German finance minister Hans Eichel hosted the inaugural meeting. |
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In exercising these powers the monarch normally defers to the advice of the prime minister or other ministers. |
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When one party has an absolute majority in the House of Commons, the monarch appoints the leader of that party as prime minister. |
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The prime minister and all other ministers take office immediately upon appointment by the monarch. |
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Without being a genius of the first class, he was an intelligent, prudent, and safe minister. |
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Disraeli was unwilling to wait, and Cairns, in his view, was a far stronger minister. |
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In 2004 a formal apology by a government minister of the Federal Republic of Germany followed. |
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Two weeks later, the prime minister announced that the government would accept the report if other parties also did. |
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Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler's hypnotic oratory to control public opinion. |
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In 2014, the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, was chosen to be President of the European Council, as resigned as prime minister. |
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The government structure centers on the Council of Ministers, led by a prime minister. |
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The president appoints the cabinet according to the proposals of the prime minister, typically from the majority coalition in the Sejm. |
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Churchill, now again prime minister, announced on 17 February 1952 that the first British weapon test would occur before the end of the year. |
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The 1981 Defence Review by John Nott, the defence minister, dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy's surface fleet. |
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She replaced foreign minister Peter Carrington with Francis Pym and rounded up diplomatic support. |
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China was the first communist state Thatcher had visited and she was the first British prime minister to visit China. |
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In February 2007, Thatcher became the first living British prime minister to be honoured with a statue in the Houses of Parliament. |
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Earlier that month, Thatcher had been named the most competent British prime minister of the past 30 years in an Ipsos MORI poll. |
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Daoud Khan had served as prime minister since 1953 and promoted economic modernization, emancipation of women, and Pashtun nationalism. |
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In late 1994, Rabbani's defense minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud, defeated Hekmatyr in Kabul and ended ongoing bombardment of the capital. |
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It is led by the first minister, who selects the cabinet secretaries and ministers with approval of parliament. |
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The Scottish Parliament nominates one of its members to be appointed as first minister by the monarch. |
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They are appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the first minister. |
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The first minister, the cabinet secretaries and the Scottish law officers are the members of the Scottish Government. |
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Normally meetings are held on Tuesday afternoons in Bute House, the official residence of the first minister. |
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The Lord Advocate attends meetings of the cabinet only when requested by the first minister, and he is not formally a member. |
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The permanent secretary is the most senior Scottish civil servant, leads the strategic board, and supports the first minister and cabinet. |
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Other offices are scattered around central Edinburgh, including Bute House on Charlotte Square, the official residence of the first minister. |
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The first minister has use of the Scotland Office building, Dover House in Whitehall when necessary. |
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With the passing of the Crofters' Act in 1886 the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone emancipated crofters from the rule of the landlords. |
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The UK minister responsible for the Falkland Islands since 2012, Hugo Swire, administers British foreign policy regarding the islands. |
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He returned in 1890 on the missionary schooner Pitcairn with an ordained minister to perform baptisms. |
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In France, the president, the head of state, appoints the prime minister, who is the head of government. |
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In this case, the prime minister serves at the pleasure of the monarch and holds no more power than the monarch allows. |
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He had created 117 new peers since becoming prime minister in May 2010, a faster rate of elevation than any PM in British history. |
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In addition, the office of Lord Chancellor was reformed by the act, removing his ability to act as both a government minister and a judge. |
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Prior to 1902, the prime minister sometimes came from the House of Lords, provided that his government could form a majority in the Commons. |
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Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, served as deputy prime minister. |
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Minister of the Crown is a formal constitutional term used in the Commonwealth realms to describe a minister to the reigning sovereign. |
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The term minister came into being as the sovereign's advisors ministered, or served, the will of the king. |
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In Malaysia, the first minister for each state with a Malay ruler is known as the Menteri Besar. |
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In parliamentary systems, Cabinet Ministers are accountable to Parliament, but it is the prime minister who appoints and dismisses them. |
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The CDS, along with the Permanent Under Secretary, are the principal advisers to the departmental minister. |
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He consequently sat as both president and prime minister until 1981, when Cesar Virata succeeded him to the latter office. |
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The President approves the military doctrine and appoints the defense minister and the chief and other members of the general staff. |
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The British prime minister, the Duke of Newcastle, was optimistic that the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe. |
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In France, 1758 had been disappointing, and in the wake of this a new chief minister, the Duc de Choiseul, was appointed. |
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The veteran former Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston became prime minister. |
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The colony was granted independence from the United Kingdom in 1961 and Sir Milton Margai was appointed its first prime minister. |
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Malta is the only member of the European Union that have a minister implicated in this scandal and to date. |
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The Mossack Fonseca documents do not name either prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or his younger brother, Punjab chief minister Shebaz Sharif. |
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A US federal court found that he diverted funds to fictitious companies, but he nonetheless became minister of energy. |
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He is currently an advisor to former prime minister Charles Konan Banny, who lost the October 2015 presidential election. |
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The love of God shown by the family impressed Maxwell, particularly after he was nursed back from ill health by the minister and his wife. |
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The districts are divided into circuits governed by the Circuit Meeting and led and administrated principally by a superintendent minister. |
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Sometime after Pentecost the Church grew to a point where it was no longer possible for the Apostles to minister alone. |
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Congregations where there is no minister, or where the minister is incapacitated may be moderated by a specially trained elder. |
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There are sometimes further distinctions between the minister and the other elders. |
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Peel was forced to resign as prime minister on 29 June, and the Whig leader, Lord John Russell, assumed the seals of office. |
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The minister with overall responsibility for the department is the Minister of Education. |
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The minister with overall responsibility for the department was the Minister for Employment and Learning. |
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Petersburg student, the revolutionist Victor Haldin, who has assassinated a savagely repressive Russian government minister. |
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Williams became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery to officiate the wedding of friends. |
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The king is also the prime minister, and presides over the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia. |
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The Emir appoints the prime minister, who in turn chooses the ministers comprising the government. |
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According to the constitution, at least one minister has to be an elected MP from the parliament. |
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According to the prime minister of Somalia, to improve transparency, Cabinet ministers fully disclosed their assets and signed a code of ethics. |
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The head of government is the prime minister who, together with the cabinet, is responsible for executive government. |
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He also appoints the prime minister, as well the other members of the cabinet on a proposal by the prime minister. |
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The Parliament can be dissolved by a recommendation of the Prime minister endorsed by the President. |
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Each minister heads his or her ministry, or, in some cases, has responsibility for a subset of a ministry's policy. |
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After the prime minister, the most powerful minister is the minister of finance. |
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A Church of Scotland minister of Troqueer in Dumfries produced eleven children of whom some have made a notable mark. |
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After his return to Geneva, Knox was chosen to be the minister at a new place of worship petitioned from Calvin. |
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In the previous year on 1 November 1555, the congregation in Geneva had elected Knox as their minister and he decided to take up the post. |
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He argued that he had called a legal, not an illegal, assembly as part of his duties as a minister of the Kirk. |
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After inducting his successor, Lawson of Aberdeen, as minister of St Giles' on 9 November, Knox returned to his home for the last time. |
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He outraged a kirk minister by claiming it would be unlawful to resist the Spanish by force of arms, as all war was unchristian. |
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He sent out missionaries from England and ordained men from the Colonies to minister there in parishes. |
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The Secretary for Scotland was chief minister in charge of the Scottish Office in the United Kingdom government. |
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Gladstone left office in March 1894, aged 84, as the oldest person to serve as prime minister and the only prime minister to serve four terms. |
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He entered the cabinet in 1885 and served twice as foreign minister, paying special attention to French and German affairs. |
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Rosebery was in the Lords, but Harcourt controlled the Commons, where he often undercut the prime minister. |
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Gladstone, a prime minister in retirement, called on Britain to intervene alone. |
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In 2010, Scotland's at the time education minister Michael Russell spoke at an EU hearing in Sottish Gaelic, the first in the union's history. |
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Typically a parish minister would attend the Assembly once every four years, accompanied by an elder from that congregation. |
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Prior to each Assembly, a minister or elder is nominated to serve as Moderator for that year. |
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A British prime minister feuding with his chancellor of the exchequer. |
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We want to meet the chief minister, Shina NC, myself and residents of Campa Cola, we don't want to disrespect law and Supreme Court. |
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He was speaking at a luncheon he hosted for former federal finance minister Shaukat Tarin at CM's House on Saturday. |
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It is now up to the health minister to resist the siren call of moneyed, vested interests and do the right thing by older Australians. |
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Hisamitsu Arai, who has served as vice minister for international affairs for the past two and a half years in MITI, will retire. |
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The prime minister asserted that mob rule could not be tolerated by a responsible state. |
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And please get rid of Iain Duncan Smith, as he has to be the smuggest minister in living memory. |
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It is up to Cameron show he is a potential prime minister and not just a media-savvy snake oil salesman. |
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The physical death of the former prime minister does mean that Thatcherism is dead. |
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The minister of foreign affairs of the Vatican noted that it was a great honor for him to meet with Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia. |
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Then-prime minister John Major, clambered onto his soapbox in an attempt to win votes for his latest Tory campaign. |
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She also informed the prime minister about the need to form the Cauvery Management Board without further delay. |
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In 1815 he became minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, in spite of determined opposition to him in the town council on the grounds of his evangelical teaching. |
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The railway minister promised a nationwide safety inspection and also announced further reductions in the top speed of bullet trains following cuts in April. |
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Historians judge him a failure as foreign minister and as prime minister. |
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Power shifted towards George's ministers, especially to Sir Robert Walpole, who is often considered the first British prime minister, although the title was not then in use. |
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Influential members of the order protested, such as the minister general Michael of Cesena, the English provincial William of Ockham, and Bonagratia of Bergamo. |
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However, the prime minister added that it was another matter if he was asked about whether Russia's show of forces was necessary in such an event. |
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As response to French request for solidarity, Finnish defence minister commented in November that Finland could and is willing to offer intelligence support. |
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As a rule, the post of prime minister goes to the leader of the biggest party and that of the minister of finance to the leader of the second biggest. |
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Internal strife over the process of making a decision on the proposal led to the resignation of former prime minister John Major from the main committee. |
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Palmer, who was born in Surrey Square off the Old Kent Road in Newington, London, was the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister, and was raised by a pious nurse. |
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Others, including the future Labour prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, wanted unequivocal opposition, and resigned from the society when it followed Shaw. |
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After a rough start in industrial mobilisation, Britain replaced prime minister Asquith in December 1916 with the much more dynamic Liberal leader David Lloyd George. |
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This policy was continued by subsequent minister John O'Dowd. |
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The minister responsible for higher education is the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, currently Mike Russell MSP of the Scottish National Party. |
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Some Presbyterian denominations enroll ministers as members of their respective congregations, while others enroll the minister as a member of the regional presbytery. |
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Responsibility for conduct of church services is reserved to an ordained minister or pastor known as a teaching elder, or a minister of the word and sacrament. |
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There is normally no sung or responsive liturgy, but worship is the responsibility of the minister in each parish, and the style of worship can vary and be quite experimental. |
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When king Rastislav of Moravia asked Byzantium for teachers who could minister to the Moravians in their own language, Byzantine emperor Michael III chose these two brothers. |
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Since the prime minister didn't have the cajones to actually fire the most popular general in Canada's recent history, The Big Cod easily won that little skirmish. |
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Bjarni Benediktsson, Iceland's finance minister and the chairman of Gunnlaugsson's coalition partner, comes from one of Iceland's wealthiest families. |
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In 1953, President Eisenhower's CIA implemented Operation Ajax, a covert operation aimed at the overthrow of the Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh. |
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As prime minister, Pitt committed Britain to a grand strategy of seizing the entire French Empire, especially its possessions in North America and India. |
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The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze. |
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Oglethorpe wanted Wesley to be the minister of the newly formed Savannah parish, a new town laid out in accordance with the famous Oglethorpe Plan. |
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Islamabad Outgoing finance minister Shaukat Tarin said on Thursday he had resigned in order to revert to his banking business that direly needed injection of capital. |
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However, article 64 require that all official acts of the King must be countersigned, by the President of the Government or other competent minister, for them to become valid. |
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That means most power is in the hands of what is called in most of those countries the prime minister, who is accountable to the national parliament. |
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In October 1971, as the Troubles worsened, Gerard Newe had been appointed as a junior minister at Stormont, in an attempt to improve community relations. |
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The reason we all should be interested in the English Congregational minister is that he was the one who codified the tonic sol-fa method of teaching vocal music. |
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