Sentence examples for cabinet divisions from inspiring English sources

But Mr Yanagisawa has far more political cloutDamaging cabinet divisions are appearing elsewhere.

Cabinet divisions, and Blair's jaundiced experience of coalition government in Scotland and Wales, reduced his enthusiasm.

Two festering scandals have reignited during the troubled recent weeks to keep the cabinet divisions on the front pages.

He also gave the prime minister personal credit for intervening to make sure the bank and the carbon budgets were agreed, despite claims of cabinet divisions.

The government was considering backing an inquiry headed by a government member as an alternative to Xenophon's original proposal, but the idea triggered cabinet divisions.

December 2008 The transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, announces a delay to the decision, prompting speculation over cabinet divisions on the environmental impact.

In an effort to put some distance between the killing and the Interior Ministry — the government office that oversees internal security — Mr. Malik said the responsibility for providing an armored car for Mr. Bhatti lay with the cabinet division, part of the prime minister's department.

The six directors were appointed from the ministries of energy, commerce, finance, civil aviation, foreign affairs, and the cabinet division, with the cabinet secretary taking on the role as chairman of the board of directors.

Owen, handicapped by his own relatively junior position in the cabinet, by its divisions over Europe and by Britain's diminished status as a result of the financial and economic crises of the late 1970s, tended to vent his frustration on his senior officials, and on none more frequently than Palliser.

Of Tony Blair, Mr Hennessy remarks that his programme has been "driven through without regard for the niceties of traditional cabinet structures, the division of function between permanent officials and temporary special advisers, or any great sensitivity towards parliament".Some of this seems to matter from a constitutional point of view and some not.

Those cabinet meetings exposed the divisions within her government.