Sentence examples for cabinet elevation from inspiring English sources

His cabinet elevation was entirely unexpected, not least by him, said friends, and fulfilled a long-held ambition.

Following his resignation from Thatcher's cabinet and his elevation to the Lords as Baron Howe of Aberavon, he continued to be a major player.

Villiers' replacement as Northern Ireland secretary is James Brokenshire, whose elevation to the cabinet had been widely expected after five years as a junior minister in May's Home Office and his early backing for her leadership campaign.

The Post also reports that the Obama administration will remove the position's Cabinet-level status -- overturning an elevation of the office under President George W. Bush.

It is with the elevation of Shami Chakrabarti to his shadow cabinet, however, that Corbyn seems to have reached some new accommodation with hypocrisy – one that bears out David Runciman in his study Political Hypocrisy.

Trump's elevation of ultra-hawkish ex-generals to key cabinet posts also suggests that he will aggressively expand the sprawling surveillance state inherited from Obama.

Turnbull's changes include the elevation of his key supporters, and the dumping from cabinet of several strong Abbott backers including Eric Abetz and Kevin Andrews.

The elevation of a Badr organization leader to perhaps the most significant cabinet position vis-vis the Sunnis is in line with the broader increasing influence of the Shia militias.

Ms. Mills will remain on the president's cabinet only as long as the SBA is an agency and the announcement of Ms. Mill's elevation to the cabinet was precluded by a proposal to collapse the SBA and five other federal agencies into one.

The fresh-faced, relatively young, female ministers underlined Mr Harper's message of generational change, as did the elevation of several young, male backbenchers.But the theme of renewal stopped dead at central cabinet posts that carry real power.

The wide-ranging changes include the elevation of Marise Payne as Australia's first female defence minister and one of five women in the cabinet, addressing one of the criticisms of Tony Abbott's male-dominated cabinet.