Sentence examples for cabinet duties from inspiring English sources

All these key cabinet officers have made agreements with the government to rid themselves of any stocks that could conflict with their cabinet duties.

Mr Martin deftly avoided upsetting either environmentalists or businessmen by saying that he strongly supported Kyoto but regretted the government's failure to win provincial backing for it.Since June, when he was fired as finance minister, Mr Martin has been free to raise money and campaign, while his potential rivals are tied down by cabinet duties.

He did not tell colleagues and tried to carry on with his cabinet duties despite not being able to see properly.

They see his cabinet duties conflicting with his responsibility as a legal adviser, and that by giving Bowen his honest opinion he was upholding the oath he took as a barrister.

Michael Portillo may not be willing to return to shadow cabinet duty.

He now hopes to do so with a shuffled cabinet and more duties ceded to Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri.See article: Indonesia's president tries againAnwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister, was sentenced to nine years in jail for sodomy.

Members of the shadow cabinet were on duty throughout the holiday period to avoid a repeat of last year's summer of silence, but no one made much in the way of traction, and that's continued through into mid-January.

But I don't think she has ever wavered from her commitment to her job as home secretary, and indeed she was in cabinet carrying out her duties this morning.

The mayor will argue that running London is like organising a big government department — putting him on a par with senior figures in the cabinet who combine the duties of a constituency MP with their ministerial posts.

After the 2004 elections, he turned down a cabinet post and assumed duties as Chancellor of Kabul University.

In the kitchen, a wall of teak cabinets handles the storage duties, so the wall above the sink can remain bare.