Sentence examples for ministerial action from inspiring English sources

Fortunately on Sunday evening, the Commonwealth ministerial action group concluded its emergency meeting by expressing "solidarity with the Maldivian people to select a government through democratic means".

Nor does any other have a mechanism for self-regulation like the Commonwealth's ministerial action group, which has the power to suspend, and ultimately expel, recalcitrant members.

The justice secretary Ken Clarke said yesterday that it was the exponential growth of judicial review and not the European convention that was doing the most to circumscribe the freedom of ministerial action in the UK.

No particular body will check on this, but a ministerial "action group" will meet on the eve of the Commonwealth heads-of-government meeting in Brisbane in October to consider whether Mr Mugabe has fulfilled his end of the bargain, and what to do if he has not.

Enacted in 1977 as part of a series of reforms after the Watergate scandal, the law bars companies that operate in the United States from bribing officials overseas to obtain or retain business — though it makes an exception for low-level payments necessary to achieve a ministerial action that confers no unfair advantage.

In 2008, the government of Quebec had established a parliamentary commission on homelessness, and an Inter-ministerial Action Plan on Homelessness (2010 2013) published in December 2009 had recommended identifying best practices to fight homelessness.

Perhaps one lesson of our current difficulties is that Westminster and other UK agencies need to find better ways of monitoring, amending and regulating prime-ministerial actions.

It is likely that meeting will be largely practical and an assessment of what is known, as opposed to any ministerial political action.

While text can still be changed, ministerial level actions will probably now be needed to reinsert targets and strengthen safeguard language.

Next month 3-44 March) the World Health Organisation will set out its priorities for research into the degenerative brain disease at the first ministerial conference on global action against dementia in Geneva.

Walker's appointment by Millen came into question, and the resulting investigation into the Commissioner's accountability to the Minister and to Parliament has been described as "one of the fullest examinations of... ministerial responsibility for the actions of an autonomous public corporation in the history of the Commonwealth Parliament".