A group of cabinet agencies objected".
George Osborne led a group of cabinet ministers who sat on the frontbench in a clear display of support for Spelman.
He also announced that a group of cabinet members would see Mr. Arafat to discuss the crisis.
President Asif Ali Zardari swore in a new, smaller group of cabinet ministers on Friday in what the government described as "part of an austerity drive" to cut expenditures.
Each morning in the war's first weeks, a group of cabinet secretaries and senior White House officials crowded around the conference table in the West Wing office of Stephen Friedman, the chairman of the National Economic Council.
Mr. Moussa suggested they would receive only slightly more oversight than they did under Mr. Mubarak, saying their budget would be scrutinized, but only by a select group of cabinet officials and lawmakers.
With Mr. Cameron in France on Wednesday, the home secretary, Theresa May, called an emergency meeting of the Cobra committee, a group of cabinet ministers and high-level security officials that oversees the operations of police and security agencies at times of high security alerts.
"This is not an issue we can let Tepco take complete responsibility of," Mr. Abe told a group of cabinet ministers gathered to discuss the water problem that has swiftly emerged as the biggest challenge at the plant and that appears to be slowly spiraling out of control.
In May 2007, Anthony Harriman, the senior director for Afghanistan at the National Security Council, in order to ensure the strategy paper would be executed, decided to take it to the Deputies Committee — a group of cabinet deputy secretaries led by Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, whom President Bush had appointed his "war czar" — which had the power to make the document official U.S. policy.
His Executive Order #13487 (pdf) created a working group of cabinet and agency heads, co-chaired by the secretaries of defense and health and human services, to analyze current practices for the handling and transportation of biological select agents and other lab materials.
