Sentence examples for term for ministers from inspiring English sources

Focused on their target, it has made sense, at least in the short term, for ministers to focus on students, simply because they are the largest single group arriving in any given year (accounting for around 60% of non-EU immigration).

First, how about specified term limits for ministers so they are appointed on the basis of a commitment by No 10 and the minister that the latter will do the job for a specified period (not usually less than two years) unless there is a good policy or performance reason to move them.

The social awakening has come in the middle of what had so far been a quiet domestic term for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Less than a year ago, Mr. Sadr helped establish the current government when he decided to back a second term for Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

On Sunday, 6.3 million eligible voters are to cast ballots that are expected, by hook or by crook, to produce another five-year term for Prime Minister Hun Sen. A tough political war horse who first took power in 1985, Mr. Hun Sen has shown that he is ready to do what it takes to hold office -- by ballot, by buyout, by killing or by coup.

He is said to oppose a third term for Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, though by some accounts he is prepared to cooperate with whoever the the mainly Shia Iraqi National Alliance put forward as its candidate.

"Something I hope we can do is try and improve the record in terms of tenure of ministers," he said - a reference to the average term for Labour energy ministers of just over year.

"The yen has depreciated by about 10 percent thanks to Abenomics, and expectations are running high," Mr. Muto said, using a popular term for the prime minister's policies.

A spokesman for Mr. Maliki, Ali al-Moussawi, said the bill "contradicts the Constitution and all constitutions in the parliamentary systems which do not limit the term for the prime minister".

But for a brief term as minister for small businesses, from 1995 to 1997, and his role as an adviser to President Jacques Chirac, he has virtually no national record.

Warren Hoge (NYT) SPAIN: PREMIER WINS APPROVAL Parliament voted 202 to 148 to approve a second term for the center-right prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, whom voters re-elected on March 12 with an unexpected outright majority.