Sentence examples for finance parliaments from inspiring English sources

A network of UNICEF social policy advisors and officers work to develop and strengthen important external partnerships at country, regional and global levels with ministries of finance, parliaments, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, among others.

After speaking with many governments, I sense that donors' fatigue arises not only from their financial troubles at home but also the difficulty of keeping finance ministries and parliaments focused on and enthused about slow-motion trials, year after year, in a far-off country like Cambodia.

Late last year, George Osborne, Britain's finance minister, told Parliament to expect "significant reductions in the investment bank".

Advertising sales and, primarily, annual appropriations from Parliament finance the CBC's operations.

Klaus-Peter Flosbach, a member of the finance committee in Parliament and a spokesman on finance matters for Ms. Merkel's Christian Democratic delegation, said: "The fiscal pact is the basis for further cooperation.

Mr. Stournaras, the finance minister, told Parliament on Wednesday that Greece aimed to reduce its debt burden by lowering the interest rate on the rescue loans it receives from the troika and extending the payback periods of those loans.

It was an unhappy marriage: on May 23rd Luis de Guindos, Spain's finance minister, told parliament that the government would inject at least €9 billion ($11 billion) into the ailing lender.The worries about banks go deeper.

Although Greece remains in financial trouble and is expected soon to need even more international assistance, Yannis Stournaras, the Greek finance minister, told Parliament last week that Athens was on target to raise its gross domestic product this year, mainly because of tourism.

(Reuters) ZIMBABWE: COST OF WAR -- The new minister of finance disclosed to Parliament that the country's two-year-long involvement in Congo's civil war has cost about $200 million, nearly three times more than previously disclosed.

They say its failures stem less from bad leadership than from meddling officials, in the finance ministry and Parliament, who have held up asset sales in politically delicate cases.

In London, meanwhile, George Osborne, the British finance minister, gave Parliament details on Wednesday of a treaty with the Swiss that would allow him to levy tax on an estimated £40 billion, or $64 billion, held in secret Swiss bank accounts by British nationals.