Sentence examples for cabinet down from inspiring English sources

From the cabinet down, there are 7,500 presidential appointees at nearly every level in the executive branch.

In a poll published Sunday by the Kyodo News agency, only 15.8 percent of respondents approved of Mr. Kan's cabinet, down from about 17 percent a month earlier.

Either they go and bring Brown's tottering cabinet down or they stay and dwindle with him, perhaps in days.

It will face the formidable electoral machinery of the ruling party, Golkar, which, thanks to the 75 seats hitherto reserved for the armed forces, has a guaranteed block of support in the 500-seat parliament.Indonesia's armed forces not only defend the state; they also serve a political role, and soldiers are installed at every level of administration from the cabinet down.

The culture secretary, John Whittingdale, did not tell the prime minister he had a relationship with a sex worker before he was elevated to the cabinet, Downing Street has said.

Related: Election live: Osborne and May return in new Cameron cabinet Downing Street hailed an historic victory as Cameron became the first prime minister since Anthony Eden in 1955 to increase his party's vote in both the number of seats (up from 306 in 2010 to 331) and percentage terms (up from 36.1% to 36.9%).

Rachel Cooke The typist hovers by the filing cabinet, gazing down at the dropped paper on the floor.

In an ugly power play against justice and accountability, Hezbollah has withdrawn from Lebanon's cabinet, bringing down the unity government of Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

Santiago Levy, one of the stars of the Zedillo cabinet, turned down a job with the Inter-American Development Bank to sort out the Social Security Institute.This suggests a division of labour: the cabinet will govern, while Mr Fox tours, peddling his vision.

Now Cheep just headed straight for a shadowy corner in our bedroom behind the stereo cabinet, hunkered down and refused to budge.

Last summer, the Israeli cabinet laid down guidelines for granting legal status to the children of people who have entered Israel with a valid visa or permit but have stayed on illegally.