Sentence examples for cabinet shift from inspiring English sources

The cabinet shift occurred as four unions, demanding higher salaries, more jobs and protection for the country's generous social benefits, rallied railway workers to go forward with a strike that had been organized last week.

After reports in December that Mr. Zapatero planned a cabinet shift, Mr. Solbes said that, at a certain age, "one thinks one has to have a life too," Bloomberg News reported.

He will have to do so in a context of a cabinet shift to the right, continuing draconian cuts in local government spending, which particularly affect social care and its service users and, perhaps most of all, the most determined attack on disabled people through continuing welfare reform in modern memory.

Parents of the missing seemed unmoved by the cabinet shift.

Ultimately, Meisdalshagen's opposition to the Labour Party's foreign and defence policy in general, and extraordinary monetary grants for defence measures specifically, was cited as the reason for his resignation from the cabinet, and even for the entire cabinet shift.

Opposition politicians were quick to characterize the cabinet shifts as window dressing.

Mr. Barnier's presentation underscored just how much the Foreign Ministry has changed since the cabinet shifts in March that made Mr. de Villepin the interior minister.

Baird worked on the political staff of Perrin Beatty when Beatty was federal Minister of National Defence in the early 1990s, and followed Beatty through subsequent cabinet shifts, culminating in his becoming Secretary of State for External Affairs in the short-lived 1993 government of Kim Campbell.

Setting up a new "war cabinet" or shifting policy on Iran?

The contents of high shelves and cabinets can shift during earthquakes.

And yet, while it's a start, neither the appointment of more women to the cabinet nor the shift towards equality in the boardroom should be seen as an end in itself.