Only those who hold ministerial positions in government are accountable to Parliament and by extension the nation. |
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In Scotland such shires were administered by a class of ministerial tenants known as thanes. |
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One of the reasons we have ministerial question time is to ensure that there is no corruption in this country. |
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The convention of ministerial responsibility is not enforced by the judiciary. |
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Her ministerial appointments amounted to only eight women, only one of whom rose higher than the ranks of junior minister. |
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First Minister, you asked for a briefing note in advance of meetings with your ministerial team. |
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At ministerial level, it usually does, but among the rank and file, it often does not. |
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The onus is on the Action Group to keep the pot boiling on the issue and ensure that there is a ministerial response to their proposal. |
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Some of the matters involved in States wishing to retain controls go beyond the simple issues of ministerial empires. |
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Some politicians must say farewell to their red boxes, while others will discover the joys of a ministerial limousine. |
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Murray Wheelan is also not a detective, he's a Labor Party ministerial advisor. |
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Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off. |
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The first test of his growing strength will come when the ministerial team is reshuffled today. |
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And the fact that there'll be the ministerial reshuffle is a mere co-incidence. |
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With the latest reshuffle, it bears even less resemblance to ministerial portfolios. |
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The expected autumn reshuffle will allow for a much-needed freshening of the ministerial team. |
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A spate of ministerial resignations, followed by a horribly panicked and botched reshuffle, is another piece of evidence. |
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If ministerial answerability cannot be adequately established, the question cannot be accepted and would ultimately be disallowed by the Speaker. |
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Their six assembly representatives were richly rewarded with four ministerial posts. |
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It appointed leaders who had served in ministerial roles during the Rogernomics era. |
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He gave the impression of being a romantic rebel rather than a person of prime ministerial stature. |
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A new round of global trade negotiations is moving closer to being launched, as the six-day ministerial meeting in Doha draws to a close. |
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He will have to have his ministerial warrant renewed after the next election, if he should be so lucky. |
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His life before entering the Commons hardly marks him out for the most challenging ministerial brief of the next decade. |
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I think ministerial salaries have improved in both real and relative terms since then. |
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The secret services are currently split between departments, and live outside proper ministerial and parliamentary accountability. |
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For now, she continues with her ministerial duties, serving the church she sees as part of her family. |
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What we know is that police, Norfolk Island Police, were called to his ministerial office at about lunch time today. |
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But the senior Government whip has just indicated that we have just had two speeches from Ministers in a ministerial statement situation. |
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They claimed that I was just following the party line or that ministerial office had bought me off. |
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Mollien's ministerial term of office thus spanned nine years, covering a territory spreading over most of continental Europe. |
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It is now common knowledge that she expected to be appointed to a ministerial office as soon as Labor was returned to government. |
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But in light of his political biography there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government. |
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About 40 presidents and royalty, ten prime ministers and 43 ministerial delegations have been billed to attend. |
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Despite one minister relinquishing his ministerial portfolio, the country is still not confident that there is integrity in public life. |
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This November in Miami, thousands are preparing to resist the ministerial meetings on the Free Trade Area of the Americas. |
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In the next two sections he looks at issues in ministerial life and the wider church. |
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The following year 17 candidates were accepted for ministerial training, rising to 25 in 2002 and 33 last year. |
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On the other hand, many churches have been harmed by insufficient attention to ministerial training. |
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The formation of ministerial students in congregations and in the church is no longer taking place. |
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In short, the presbyteral priesthood was at the center of the sacramental understanding of ministerial order. |
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It felt both humbling and a bit nostalgic to lecture, in God's providence to 240 ministerial students in the place I was once called to serve. |
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It is not uncommon for a minister to drive 6-10,000 miles per year in carrying out the ministerial duties for a congregation. |
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It is this kind of ecclesiology that will lead to a ministerial leadership and ecclesial structures that will equip believers for their callings. |
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I vividly remember reporting the 1971 Synod on the ministerial priesthood when influential voices were calling for an end to the celibacy rule. |
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The other day I was looking up a picture of a ministerial colleague in the mug-shot book of the ELCA's Metropolitan Chicago Synod. |
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I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void. |
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Ivan has been attending the church for 5 years, first as a ministerial student and for the last three years as assistant pastor. |
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Nowhere in the three articles does one find a reflection on what celibacy can do for the ministerial priesthood, or for the priest himself. |
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A third task addresses continuing ministerial education and ongoing support for deacons. |
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No, your Honour, you can exclude them by respect of a ministerial decision not to grant them a visa. |
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That, however, was where the suggested alternative remedy was a ministerial default power rather than a statutory appeal process. |
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Only three or four attained ministerial posts with some influence on national policies in an increasingly autocratic monarchial regime. |
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As someone has already said, his climb up the ministerial pole sadly blinkers him against anything that may dent his progress. |
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Railtrack was nationalised by ministerial ukase, at a point when the market recognised its crisis had peaked and could be overcome. |
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Their ministerial responsibilities, however unglamorous, matter to thousands of people, as the family credit fiasco showed. |
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In the event the President appoints a member of a National Assembly to a ministerial post that member should thereafter resign his or her seat. |
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His ministerial mates would stick him on the board of an SOE, a quango or one of umpteen other types of publicly funded organisation. |
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There were his own wishes both to find a ministerial post in Lusatia to serve Sorbs in their common language and to find a wife. |
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And it was also clear that the teaching unions needed something of a bruiser in the ministerial office to deliver change. |
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The great ministerial dynasties, and many of the most dynamic servants of the Bourbon monarchy, acquired nobility through the purchase of office. |
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The obvious interpretation put on each ministerial speech has been vigorously denied by Downing Street. |
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Detailed policy papers, letters and ministerial submissions are taped and listened to late into the evening, absorbed at double the normal speed. |
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The inter ministerial group will forward the proposal to the cabinet committee on disinvestment for approval. |
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These days, representatives of China, Japan and South Korea attend all ASEAN summits and ministerial meetings. |
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Let's hope that Bradford MP Gerry Sutcliffe, whose ministerial responsibilities now include fireworks, is sympathetic to that view. |
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Moreover, the civilianization of the ministerial control of the army in Britain did not become a fixed principle until after the Napoleonic wars. |
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The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct. |
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For the public service, the affair demonstrates its fragility in the face of both ministers and, more perniciously, ministerial staffers. |
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Regardless of their personal profile, all ministerial officials behaved in much the same way in relation to their own fiefs. |
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Mike Watson is accused of breaking ministerial code after condemning Executive plans to shake up Glasgow hospitals. |
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Indeed, we could probably argue that their existing costs were already too high, and that takes us back to a ministerial conflict of interest. |
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This legislation makes it clear that that sort of ministerial interference cannot occur again. |
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The DOS hold nine of the portfolios including ministerial post for the economy, foreign affairs and the interior. |
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In return, however, it has taken 17 of 30 ministerial posts, including the key positions of foreign affairs, defence and interior. |
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But there was more than thwarted ambition and ministerial rivalry at play here. |
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From the late 1750s dukes and peers were found holding ministerial portfolios alongside the professionals of the robe. |
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He held various ministerial posts, and from 1983 supervised the organization of the 1988 Olympic Games. |
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In the statements he made yesterday, Moussa indicated that the September ministerial meeting could prelude the Arab summit. |
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Bilateral relations have come to a virtual deadlock since the last ministerial talks ended in failure in November last year. |
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The action demanded by the ministerial task force is both sensible and prudent. |
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Nor should the courts give a ministerial statement, whether made inside or outside Parliament, determinative weight. |
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In ministerial posts under Aberdeen and Palmerston, including colonial secretary, he stood out as an administrative reformer and economizer. |
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Mr Morris emphasised the importance of a consensus between the three parties being reached, rather than a ministerial dictum imposed. |
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They avoided the need for prearranged Dorothy Dix questions by allowing ministerial statements by leave. |
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But the real power will reside in 10 of the 15 ministerial cabinet posts and bosses of the parastatal corporations that will be divided up between the warring factions. |
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With the delay of the two ministerial decrees, a tripartite forum comprising employers, trade unions and government representatives will deliberate the issue next month. |
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The fourth proposition, that the Canadian system lacks the formal counterweights necessary to check prime ministerial power, is more difficult to tackle. |
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The provincial judge was pang full of ministerial influence. |
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I did say that not all ministerial resignations lead to an urgent debate. |
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Often, their good work on the political battlefield was rewarded with party preselection, or cushy jobs as ministerial aides, and careers in politics. |
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Furthermore, the church has the good sense to know that, in placing a person in a position of ministerial leadership, he or she is exposed to a unique array of temptations. |
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It raises the question of whether the full rigour of the penalty points system will be brought to bear upon speeding civilian ministerial drivers. |
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The principle of ministerial responsibility has been debauched by its invocation on any conceivable occasion, to the extent that it has become almost meaningless. |
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This proposal is being given ministerial consideration in the context of a broader reformulation of the structure and purpose of university education. |
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Now I'm a professional public servant, they are ministerial advisers. |
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And a party associating with an armed group of people, albeit one honouring a prolonged ceasefire, cannot hold ministerial office in the Republic of Ireland. |
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The Prime Minister has no ministerial responsibility for the Labour list. |
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Civil service integrity and ministerial piety went for nothing. |
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The WTO ministerial meeting was to set the agenda and scope of the next round of global trade liberalization talks, but the meeting ended in failure. |
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The large parties did nothing to block such tendencies, instead investing their efforts and resources in winning the grand prize, the prime ministerial position. |
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The MSP began a new line of attack in talking of a bloated bureaucracy, the need to reduce the size of government and a promise to cut back the ministerial payroll. |
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After 15 days, an agreement was reached through which the Lefts and the Greens were excluded from ministerial office, but would keep the government in power. |
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He has an abundance of political experience, including senior ministerial office, and will relish the challenge of heading the new beefed-up Transport Department. |
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So, I guess it's true to say that if the lines of communication are open, then that's a positive outcome from the change of ministerial portfolios. |
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As Macmillan steps up the ministerial pecking order from Housing to Defence to Foreign Minister and Chancellor, the politics become more interesting. |
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Representatives from nationalist and unionist parties may have held ministerial office, but there was clearly no genuine effort to govern together. |
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The fault line was the dance, because there was no way he could do that in a prime ministerial manner. |
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In films like this, an evangelistic and ministerial mission do much more than a good script to assure commercial success. |
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Some of the freer churches don't even ask their ministerial candidates to commit themselves formally to any belief about Scripture, let alone creation. |
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That drive was undone by the ballot box, but it is unfortunately the case that bureaucratic ordinances are usually more permanent than ministerial fiats. |
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More important became, with the completion of the ministerial system, the notion of the conferred, or lent lands, out of which the relations of feudality developed themselves. |
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For the first time in the history of the Italian republic and for the first time in a democratic country of post-war Europe, some neo-fascists acquired ministerial portfolios. |
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In lieu of political support to a regime, whether military or quasi-democratic, feudalists exact favours through ministerial positions, loans and property allocations. |
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He was exposed as a man who thinks so little of the ethics of high office that he lobbied on ministerial letterhead to get his son off a traffic offence. |
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Despite ministerial promises of rich pickings and public support from various quangos, it appears that only a few scraps will be handed out to Scottish firms. |
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If, as expected, Jassim leaves his ministerial posts, that will mark a major change. |
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This authorisation is obtained by way of ministerial decree. |
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A Teagasc spokesman said its board had sanctioned a proposed increase in fees but this requires ministerial sanction, which is in the process of being sought. |
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This is the work of bureaucrats who worked on it behind the back even of the ministerial level in Brussels. |
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The sisters, who volunteered for relief work in addition to ministerial service through their order, were extraordinary women. |
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But in order to succeed, the band of ministerial mavericks needs to capitalize on their momentum. |
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Growing up in a manse, in a ministerial household, provided me with experiences which I could recognise later in my life for their folkloric significance. |
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It seems unlikely that they will all go off on holiday for the duration of the election campaign or adopt the equivalent of the ministerial purdah. |
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But their young deputies and ministerial director generals tended to be from this recently-returned, Western-educated stratum. |
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Eleven of the 17 junior ministers have previous ministerial experience. |
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When he recorded a short speech condemning hooliganism, it was broadcast simultaneously on three national TV networks like a prime ministerial address. |
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While the two prime ministerial styles were different the words parroted by them and their respective ministers have been very similar over the last few years. |
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Quite what it has done to deserve this ministerial froideur is hard to explain, but the alienation is almost palpable and something must be done to change things. |
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The constituent assembly aimed to reduce instability by defining a ministerial crisis strictly, with a motion of censure required to overthrow a government. |
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Given such practices, one can imagine the opposition any suggestion that women be allowed to participate in the ministerial priesthood might raise. |
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First, it's being tied into a wider junior ministerial reshuffle. |
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If accepted, DUP proposals would subject ministerial decisions to a veto by no more than thirty Assembly members, a situation not followed elsewhere. |
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By late afternoon, ministerial adviser Amadou Sangho told the French television station BFMTV that no more hostages were being held. |
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Singh congratulated Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over his party's win in the Lok Sabha elections. |
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Modi ideated upon organising biennial investors' summit in 2003 during his chief ministerial regime in Gujarat. |
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The prime ministerial candidate had been among the first politicians to visit and inquire about the flood situation in Uttarakhand. |
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For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. |
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The differences between England and the Germanies sprang from the absence or presence of ministerial interventions. |
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The hamstrung State environmental Protection Administration might get ministerial status. |
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Alongside the Deputy First Minister's requirements as Deputy, the minister also has a cabinet ministerial responsibility. |
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Carwyn Jones remained First Minister following the election, this time leading a Welsh Labour ministerial team. |
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In the series of prime ministerial biographies Number 10, produced by Yorkshire Television, Pitt was portrayed by Jeremy Brett. |
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At the time of his departure, he was considered to have had the longest ministerial career in modern British politics. |
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Walpole commanded a substantial majority in Parliament and George had little choice but to retain him or risk ministerial instability. |
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Over the succeeding three months attempts to form another stable ministerial combination failed. |
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In many cases, individuals have served in ministerial or other political positions before being elected Speaker. |
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Although Lord Ashcroft played a significant role in the 2010 election, he was not offered a ministerial post. |
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Following the 2010 general election, ministerial responsibility for the Olympics returned to the Secretary of State. |
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The Assembly has 9 statutory committees, each of which is charged with scrutinising the activities of a single ministerial department. |
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Later in 1932 the Liberals resigned their ministerial posts over the introduction of the Ottawa Agreement on Imperial Preference. |
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Filling out the form under the direction of a lawyer is a ministerial task performed by a legal secretary. |
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The wording of the document has been agreed at ministerial level and has been incorporated into the Treaty of Lisbon. |
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Fourth, recognising that political parties were the source of ministerial strength, he led the Whig party and maintained discipline. |
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Members of Parliament who hold ministerial office or political privileges can expect removal for failing to support the Prime Minister. |
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The Minister of Defence has the primary ministerial responsibility for the armed forces, which are formally a part of the Ministry of Defence. |
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However, since the whips no longer have any effective ministerial roles in the Treasury, they are usually not listed as Treasury ministers. |
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Randerson's post made her the first female Liberal in the party's history to hold ministerial office. |
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Randerson was also the first female politician from the Welsh Liberals ever to hold a UK ministerial office. |
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He decided to go to Newcastle Emlyn for ministerial training, and arrived in the Revival in south Ceredigion. |
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Another missionary from Scotland, William Hepburn Hewitson, took on Protestant ministerial activities in Madeira. |
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The governor general or monarch may, though, in certain crisis situations exercise their power without ministerial advice. |
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Although they were usually considered having a ministry distinct from deacons they often had similar ministerial responsibilities. |
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In Presbyterian denominations, the local church is ruled by elected elders, some of which are ministerial. |
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In 1953, Sierra Leone was granted local ministerial powers and Margai was elected Chief Minister of Sierra Leone. |
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Constitutional conferences were held in London in 1955 and 1957, and the ministerial system was introduced. |
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As bad decisions are dressed up in pseudo-analytical garb, ministerial officials may become unduly cynical about analysis. |
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Life peers created under the Life Peerages Act do not, unless they also hold ministerial positions, receive salaries. |
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Several of the archbishops of York held the ministerial office of Lord Chancellor of England and played some parts in affairs of state. |
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Campbell initially refused to redistribute ministerial portfolios on the sole advice of the premier, who lacked the confidence of his cabinet. |
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There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position. |
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These speeches... do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. |
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Patsalides sent his ministerial limo to pick up his favourite female hackettes from their respective offices and take them to the tavern. |
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Al-Omair made the comments on the sidelines of the closing session of the ministerial conference of the Global Dryland Alliance. |
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A Japan-ASEAN economic ministerial gathering will be held Friday in Bandar Seri Begawan. |
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Sarin issued the order on a complaint filed by Delhi BJP's chief ministerial candidate, Dr Harsh Vardhan. |
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Dubai Dr Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahd, Minister of Environment and Water, issued a ministerial resolution temporarily banning the import of animals with cloven hooves from Egypt. |
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Marshall found that delivering the appointment to Marbury was a purely ministerial function required by law, and therefore the law provided him a remedy. |
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The Congress's core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch. |
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The Church of England acknowledges the FCE as a church with valid Orders and its canons permit a range of shared liturgical and ministerial activities. |
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By May 1847 it was claimed that 500 schools had been built by the new church, along with two teacher training colleges and a ministerial training college. |
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In 2009, the king made significant personnel changes to the government by appointing reformers to key positions and the first woman to a ministerial post. |
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The declaration was issued within the framework of the first ministerial meeting to develop the meteorological and climatological services in Arab countries. |
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The war ministerial post was de facto overtaken by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, which was headed by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel until the German surrender. |
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Members of the Privy Council are privileged to be given advance notice of any prime ministerial decision to commit HM Armed Forces in enemy action. |
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Gujarat chief minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Varanasi. |
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The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service serves as an independent prosecution service in Scotland, and is a ministerial department of the Scottish Government. |
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He has banned Sinn Fein ministers McGuinness and Barbre de Brun from all-Ireland ministerial meetings because of the IRA's refusal to start decommissioning. |
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A DAY after the roadshow of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, P convener Arvind Kejriwal took out two impressive roadshows in Varanasi on Friday. |
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Under D'Hondt, the SDLP would have been entitled to the extra ministerial seat on the revised Executive created by the devolution of policing and justice. |
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The Congregational church was now to be led by local ministerial associations and consociations composed of ministers and lay leaders from a specific geographical area. |
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Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, elders and deacons. |
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Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, pastors and deacons. |
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Queen Victoria was the last monarch to veto a ministerial appointment. |
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His first ministerial engagement was in the independent congregation at Clapham, where he preached once a fortnight, as assistant to Philip Furneaux. |
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In addition to his ministerial position Home was appointed to membership of the Privy Council, an honour granted only selectively to ministers below cabinet rank. |
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The CEO reports to the Secretary of State for Justice and also works closely with the Prisons Minister, a junior ministerial post within the Ministry of Justice. |
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Margot's extravagance was legendary and Asquith was no longer earning either the legal fees or the prime ministerial salary they had enjoyed in earlier years. |
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The TAM further indicates that to defer income recognition for tax purposes, a condition precedent must exist that is more than a ministerial act. |
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The President of the Republic exercises the administrative function, in collaboration with several Ministries or other authorities with ministerial rank. |
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