Sentence examples for served as environment from inspiring English sources

Before that, he served as environment secretary in Margaret Thatcher's administration and was Tory chairman under John Major.

She later served as environment minister in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration from 2003 to 2008, when she put in place effective measures to slow the deforestation of the Amazon.

Under an earlier Socialist government, in which Mr Sócrates served as environment minister, uncontrolled spending led to the first official breach of the pact, ushering in two years of austerity under Mr Barroso.

The Times said: Lord Deben, who as John Gummer served as Environment Secretary in John Major's Government, told The Times: "It just isn't true that fracking is going to destroy the environment and the world is going to come to an end if you frack.

She landed with the Liberal Democrats in 2002, and under Junichiro Koizumi, then the prime minister, she served as environment minister, coining the term "Cool Biz" for an initiative urging workers to wear casual clothes during the summer months so office buildings could save on electricity.

There were tears: Marina Silva (pictured left), Mr Campos's running-mate-turned-candidate, broke down after being criticised by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in whose cabinet she had once served as environment minister but whose protégée and successor, Dilma Rousseff (pictured centre), is seeking a second term.

Ralph Klein, while serving as Environment Minister under Getty, commented that "If you are a minister, you run that portfolio yourself" and expressed an appreciation for the freedom that the Premier gave his cabinet.

Smaller independent social units not controlled by a large bureaucracy serve as environments in which to develop supportive relationships.

These redundant components may serve as environment-specific factors facilitating the persistence of Rickettsia in its arthropod and vertebrate hosts, and probable protozoan reservoirs.

Ms Silva served as an environment minister for five years, before stepping down in 2008 after disagreements with President Lula's government over its environment policy.

She served as both environment and digital development minister under Sarkozy.