In the British civil service, given a following wind, there might even be a gong at the end. |
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If that doesn't get you noticed, you can always supplement your civil service pension with backhanders. |
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But civil service mandarins already have their defences prepared if they are called before the inquiry to be headed by Lord Fraser. |
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Traditionally, senior positions in the civil service have been reserved for long-serving mandarins. |
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Inexperience in dealing with the wilier mandarins of the civil service has also seen more than a few promising careers come unstuck. |
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His first civil service job was at the post office as a clerk, so he naturally saw the value of images on stamps. |
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Panic, incompetence, in-fighting and back-stabbing were all documented by the impartial hand of the civil service. |
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Until 1980, Rhodesia was an internally self-governing colony with its own legislature, civil service, armed forces, and police. |
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She is also on secondment to the Cabinet Office, advising on how the civil service can improve its communications skills. |
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If the relocation of 110 civil service jobs from London to York is not worth three cheers, it certainly merits a hearty two. |
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It will keep a battalion of civil service economists and statisticians in work with the creation of more monitoring and evaluation. |
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From Scottish Opera to Hampden, from the schools inspectorate to the civil service, windows are being thrown open to let in the light. |
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In 1974, the state of Washington conducted a pioneering study of wage inequities in its civil service. |
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The people who were implicated in major corruption scandals are still key personalities in high-level civil service. |
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Once elected, we will ban lies, spin, sound bites, codswallop, and twaddle from all areas of government and the civil service. |
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In the past the civil service was used as an employment office for political patronage. |
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They are about weakening the union and opening up the civil service for privatisation in the future. |
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There is no money for the civil service, so government officials too are forced into corruption. |
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The strike was observed by a majority of workers in the civil service and private companies. |
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But in its own special way, it shows that the civil service and politicians are listening. |
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The permanent bureaucracy of government, the civil service, took more and more control. |
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Neither civil service nor judiciary are trained to usurp a democratically elected prime minister. |
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This is a central part of government policy, not just for the civil service, but for the public sector as a whole. |
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With the civil service administration, there were a number of difficulties from the outset. |
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In the 1930s, my mother, a civil service typist, had to leave her job when she married. |
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If that were the case, it would be quite exceptional in the civil service or in the wider community. |
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In doing so, it is following moves by the health service, civil service and local government. |
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They were excluded from top jobs in politics, the civil service and the army. |
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Anyone who's got a family or a mortgage and is working in the civil service will have a lot of difficulty living on our wages. |
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The very idea of a permanent civil service is a recipe for inertia and stagnation. |
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Hongkongers are accustomed to a high level of performance from the civil service. |
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The exceptions are the Oxbridge people who exercise so much power in the universities, the civil service and political life. |
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No longer should the summit of civil service achievement be seen as the writing of a good policy minute. |
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The political balance between the two tribes gives us a labyrinthine civil service, two governments and hellishly high taxes. |
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The samithi has pointed out the need to appoint a jurist or a civil service officer as chairman of the Board. |
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He left school at 16 to obtain a secure job as a tax officer in the civil service. |
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She joined the civil service in Dublin in 1980 and was appointed to the office of Public works. |
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Sadly, Dr Mumba's discovery at the ministry of Lands gives a clear picture of what obtains in the entire civil service. |
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The reform of civil service pensions put civil servants at the centre of the political stage recently. |
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They were a more effective buttress of the Crown than its own bureaucracy or civil service. |
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Instead they have been engaged in the old game of passing the buck, and shifting all blame onto the civil service. |
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Though the civil service was dominated by the nobility, it became progressively more open to commoners. |
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This kind of moonlighting is in breach of the code of conduct of the civil service, according to a report by the government service commission. |
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He wants to slim down the civil service to free money for extra spending on health, education, defence and housing. |
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Beneath these vastly newsworthy honours, however, is the same slate of police, army, foreign service, civil service and public service awards. |
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The big worry is that, by attacking pensions and sick pay, the government is preparing the civil service for privatisation. |
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By fostering individual bilingualism in anglophones, the program would also eventually produce qualified applicants for civil service positions. |
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During this period, German universities turned out many historians who found their jobs in the gymnasia, universities, and the civil service. |
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This situation puts certain groups at a disadvantage in terms of education and civil service positions. |
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He promised to make the public administration, the civil service here, run more smoothly, and simplify it. |
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The cutbacks would mark a halt to the massive expansion within the civil service and local authorities since devolution. |
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An effort to Africanize the civil service and security forces as rapidly as possible complemented his drive for personal power. |
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And at the time of writing we are seeing the first unofficial wildcat strikes in the civil service for 16 years! |
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The government's purges of the civil service, unions, police, and armed forces also weakened the party's potential for political action. |
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Benn's proposals for democratising industry were killed off by the civil service and the Labour leadership. |
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He joined the civil service and became record keeper in the principal probate registry, Somerset House. |
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Of course the tone set by those at the top of the Government influences the civil service and public bodies. |
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The civil service post was resigned and the family removed to the Isle of Man to avoid the punitive tax system of the time. |
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Because he did not want her to get the big golden handshake he restructured the civil service, just to get rid of one person. |
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The time has come to ask hard questions about how much further change should be demanded of the civil service. |
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I am writing to explain the Administration's present thinking on leave-taking and leave accumulation in the civil service. |
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The civil service pension liabilities have a severe impact on fiscal consolidation and fiscal flexibility. |
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The apolitical civil service has been relied on for the day-to-day running of the territory's government. |
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Women have also risen to senior levels in the civil service but have so far failed to secure a role in politics. |
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This is a legacy from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when social position was determined by aristocratic or civil service hierarchy. |
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The first generation of African universities thus focused on producing functionaries for the civil service. |
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His prospects were limited to a low-paid job in the civil service or a low-paid job in military. |
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The assembly has funded political parties, paid for 10 ministries, and sustained a top-heavy civil service who spend their salaries in the local shops. |
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Possible options suggested were accountancy or even the civil service. |
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Aware that a prestigious career in the civil service was now closed to him, Hong experienced searing visions for the next 40 days. |
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The particular reform that irked Conkling was the then-novel proposal to eliminate patronage in federal civil service hiring. |
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It stands to reason that we cannot expect Namibia to flourish economically if this is the predominant mindset at work among our politicians and in our civil service. |
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Now she works as an organiser for the PCS civil service workers ' union. |
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Just as important will be to leaflet every civil service workplace area. |
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By fostering individual bilingualism in anglophones, the programme would also eventually produce qualified applicants for civil service positions. |
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The misnamed Moderates, the right wing union faction that has dominated civil service unions for decades, are reduced to a rump with only four seats. |
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But by then, the police were a living joke, the punch line to a thousand donut jokes and a grafting, bribe taking tarnish on the notion of civil service. |
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Amid a barrage of criticism from the public about featherbedding and overmanning, Hong Kong's civil service is being forced to streamline and reform. |
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He is demanding that the 170,000 federal employees being transferred into the new department lose both their civil service protection and union representation. |
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What is especially interesting is the resonance with today, especially the comparison between the permanence of the civil service and the transience of almost anything else. |
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Further down the civil service tree were enthusiastic and hardworking but under-resourced officials operating in poor physical environments and on uncompetitive salaries. |
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He confirms the privately expressed belief of many ministers that they are battling against a civil service hidebound by more than a century of tradition. |
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Our civil service is based on a hierarchical military model of command. |
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It may cost a packet, but devolution should provide far greater powers of scrutiny to give ministers and civil service chiefs the chance to enact change more quickly. |
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The civil service has been politicised and emasculated to the point where it stands supinely by while constitutional proprieties are systematically shredded one by one. |
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This is the third in a series of strikes over pay in the civil service. |
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The serious looking female civil service type of indeterminate age who sat to my left was a model of discretion prior to Jack's appearance on stage. |
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A massive contract to ensure the smooth running of flexitime for the whole of Scotland's civil service has been won by an award-winning York company. |
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Firstly, it acts as a democratic counterbalance to the unelected European Commission, effectively the EU's civil service which initiates policy and proposes legislation. |
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This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement. |
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With the civil service now going into purdah for the European and English county council elections, an announcement isn't expected until next month. |
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He accurately and devastatingly accuses the civil service of a public procurement policy that excludes home-grown small and medium-sized enterprises. |
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These civil service jobs cannot be cut without hitting frontline services. |
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In 1919 he left the civil service to become director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
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The civil service was increasingly filled with natives at the lower levels, with the British holding the more senior positions. |
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Its implementation is focused on the civil service, education and the broadcasting system. |
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Mycroft has a unique civil service position as a kind of human database for all aspects of government policy. |
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It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the Bank, with the incumbent grooming his or her successor. |
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Implementation of the Minister's decisions is carried out by a permanent politically neutral organisation known as the civil service. |
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The permanent secretary heads the civil service of the Welsh Government and chairs the Strategic Delivery and Performance Board. |
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Swansea was featured in several Yes Minister series as an undesirable civil service posting, in particular the vehicle licensing centre. |
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Scottish Government also includes a civil service that supports the Scottish ministers. |
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The new Act also made it easier for Indians to be admitted into the civil service and the army officer corps. |
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As of January 1, 2017 the Church of Norway is a separate legal entity and no longer a branch of the civil service. |
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The civil service of Ireland consists of two broad components, the Civil Service of the Government and the Civil Service of the State. |
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A huge salary for a government approved civil service timeserver is a sickening proposal and another useless burden on taxpayers. |
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Furthermore, there may be institutional constraints on the salary structure, as in the civil service and many public or subvented organizations. |
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The primary pillars of government are the Executive Council, Legislative Council, civil service and Judiciary. |
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He thought he'd be albe to combine a career in the civil service with his sporting ambitions. |
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Like most sensible sophonts, they invented civilization. With civilization came civility, civil service, and of course civil war. |
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By the time of the civil service examination was put into place, Confucian influence saw outright discussion of Shen Buhai banned. |
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It served as the seat of the imperial government, a center of trade and entertainment, and the nexus of the main branches of the civil service. |
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The Internal Settlement left control of the Rhodesian Security Forces, civil service, judiciary, and a third of parliament seats to whites. |
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In 1886 measures were adopted to restrict Indian entry into the civil service. |
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The Viceroy stopped land grabs, decreed religious tolerance and admitted Indians into civil service, albeit mainly as subordinates. |
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Eunuchs had ranks that were equivalent to civil service ranks, only theirs had four grades instead of nine. |
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There were also civil service offices to oversee the affairs of imperial princes. |
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The eunuchs developed their own bureaucracy that was organized parallel to but was not subject to the civil service bureaucracy. |
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One reason is the strength of the whip system, political parties and the civil service, in comparison to individual politicians. |
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He allowed Muslims to serve in the military and civil service on theoretically equal terms and allowed them to migrate to France. |
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As of 1 January 2017, the Church of Norway is a separate legal entity, and no longer a branch of the civil service. |
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Veteran backbencher Tam Dalyell spoke of fears the civil service would be politicised along US lines. |
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An equally important reform was the abolition of private tax farming, which was replaced by salaried civil service tax collectors. |
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Today, the RSPB works with both the civil service and the Government to advise Government policies on conservation and environmentalism. |
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The executive branch is headed by the mayor and includes other citywide elected and appointed officials as well as the civil service. |
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This is in addition to employees of the government in the civil service and in local government as well as public bodies and corporations. |
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Authorities have been slow to implement reforms in the civil service, and the pace of the privatisation programme is also slackening and donors have urged its advancement. |
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The governmental system was supported by a large class of Confucian intellectuals selected through either civil service examinations or recommendations. |
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This left little revenue for Puntland's own security forces and civil service employees, leaving the territory vulnerable to piracy and terrorist attacks. |
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The most senior officers of all the civilian police forces also form part of the Police Service, which is a component of the civil service of Pakistan. |
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To defeat Blakeman, McCall will have to galvanize civil service workers, state pension fund members and black voters on the strength of his record of managing the fund. |
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The territory's police, firefighting and customs forces, as well as clerical officers across various government departments, make up the civil service. |
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The relocation of the government and the civil service was also planned but would only have occurred if necessary so as not to damage civilian morale. |
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None of his immediate successors had any particular military or political talent and the administration of the Empire increasingly fell into the hands of the civil service. |
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The civil service has a clear promotions and paygrade structure, although, on occasion, it might be necessary to relocate to progress further in your career. |
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The board is responsible for providing support to the government through the permanent secretary, and is the executive of the Scottish civil service. |
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The government has reinstated all of the demobilised civil service employees who had been dismissed on grounds of their participation in last year's unrest. |
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The majority of the civil service staff in fact work in executive agencies, which are separate operational organisations reporting to Departments of State. |
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Phase two addresses structural issues, such as civil service reform. |
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She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people. |
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The reforms initiated after 1784 were designed to create an elite civil service where very talented young Britons would spend their entire careers. |
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The civil service is expected to maintain political impartiality in its work, and some parts of it are entirely independent of Government decision making. |
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Gladstone's first premiership instituted reforms in the British Army, civil service, and local government to cut restrictions on individual advancement. |
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The 180 ushers are highly visible in the Parliament, dressed in black tails and wearing a silver chain, and are recruited in the same manner as the European civil service. |
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A budget outlining 2011's federal expenditures was also put before and approved by members of parliament, with the payment of civil service employees prioritized. |
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