Sentence examples for cabinet increase from inspiring English sources

Since the mid-1990s, political reforms to strengthen representative institutions, enhance the authority of the parliament and cabinet, increase political participation, and limit the king's ability to manipulate political affairs have been enacted under pressure both from internal opposition groups and from groups outside the country.

The resignation on Tuesday of a junior minister in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's cabinet increased pressure in the governing Labor Party for a leadership contest that could unseat Mr. Brown.

Even when the possibility of putting a Democrat in Mr. Gregg's Senate seat dimmed, Mr. Obama pressed ahead, telling his advisers that it was more important to build a bipartisan cabinet than increase his Senate majority.

The cabinet instituted increased security policies in the country.

But the progress was incremental as the number of women in full cabinet posts increased from three to five.

King Abdullah of Jordan fired his cabinet and increased subsidies, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is giving his people some thirty-five binlion dollars in various benefits.

The threat of further Republican attempts to thwart the president's ability to assemble his second-term cabinet has increased the likelihood of a fight over the Senate's rules, which allow the minority party to insist on a 60-vote threshold for almost every Senate action.

Many in Israel saw Mr. Barak's statements less as a serious new policy initiative and more as an attempt to distinguish himself politically from the rest of the cabinet amid increasing talk of elections being called for early next year rather than as scheduled in October 2013.

On December 28th Mr Yushchenko called for a blockade of the cabinet building to increase pressure on Mr Yanukovich to concede.There were electoral shenanigans this time.

On September 22nd the cabinet endorsed an increase in employees' contributions to the statutory health-insurance system.To this substance Mrs Merkel has added a bit of symbolic spice.

President Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea urged his cabinet this week to increase efforts to attract foreign investment, which has fallen off sharply from a high of $9.6 billion to $2 billion last year to $412 million in the first five months of the year.