Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] of ministers " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is still to be found in the rhetoric of ministers ' speeches and circulars . |
| 2 | The Cabinet formed in the reshuffle of Ministers in the autumn of 1985 was the first since the war to contain no women ( apart from the Prime Minister herself ) . |
| 3 | This process will take months to complete , and only then , say the British , will they be able to begin serious negotiations in the Council of Ministers . |
| 4 | The Community 's authority would be extended to many areas , like health and education , where it now has no legal remit ; majority voting in the Council of Ministers would be reinforced ; the European Parliament would be given extra power to block laws it does not like ; and a small step might be taken towards a common EC defence policy . |
| 5 | The Spanish opposed the introduction of majority voting in the Council of Ministers on environmental laws unless a special fund was set up to help poorer countries meet EC standards . |
| 6 | More majority voting in the Council of Ministers made it harder for members to block laws ; that strengthened the hand of the commission , which has the sole right to propose laws . |
| 7 | Since tax questions have to be settled by unanimity in the Council of Ministers , the directive on pension-fund membership is promised a slow passage . |
| 8 | Increase democracy and accountability in the Council of Ministers . |
| 9 | Recent Draft Treaties provide for majority voting in the Council of Ministers to determine economic policy , to decide whether a member state is running an ‘ excessive ’ budget deficit and to impose the ‘ appropriate penalties ’ if necessary . |
| 10 | ‘ It makes no sense to regard ministers as any longer accountable to their national parliaments for policies on which they have been outvoted in the Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | There must be a direct line of accountability from the man in the street , via his MP who is accountable to his constituents , to the minister who takes part in the Council of Ministers and the government , who are accountable to parliament . |
| 12 | The European Parliament would be given not only a veto over matters involving majority voting in the Council of Ministers , including all commercial issues falling within the Single Market , but also a wide range of issues newly added into the competence of the Community . |
| 13 | Commission vice-president Martin Bangemann explained that the measure had been framed under Single Market ‘ fast-track ’ procedures in which final approval is subject to qualified majority in the Council of Ministers on matters necessitating a high level of public protection . |
| 14 | Brussels had framed the legislation under a section of the Treaty of Rome which authorises the Commission to aim for the highest possible levels of environmental protection and allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers when member states are unable to agree . |
| 15 | At the same time , members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to revise the social affairs proposals stalled in the Council of Ministers for months . |
| 16 | First , its supranational executive , a Board of Commissioners , would have considerably less leverage than the ECSC High Authority against the national representatives in the Council of Ministers . |
| 17 | The French view was reiterated by de Gaulle at a press conference in September when he attacked the Commission for acting unconstitutionally in attempting to take power away from the national governments , concluding with the statement that France would not participate in the Council of Ministers until the Commission retracted . |
| 18 | In January 1966 the Six agreed in Luxembourg to the retention , in practice if not in theory , of unanimity in the Council of Ministers , as well as informally accepting that Commission activism should be limited . |
| 19 | France in particular had resented the fact that Hallstein had first raised the question of greater budgetary powers for the Parliament in the assembly itself rather than in the Council of Ministers . |
| 20 | In particular , the Luxembourg Compromise permitted a state to plead special circumstances in the Council of Ministers ; in other words it would be able to exercise a veto on matters which it believed and claimed might adversely affect its own vital national interests . |
| 21 | The Directive will be subject to a ‘ qualified majority ’ voting procedure in the Council of Ministers . |
| 22 | But even in the ECSC Mendès-France tried to strengthen the hand of member states in the Council of Ministers , against the supranational power of the High Authority . |
| 23 | The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete . |
| 24 | On most occasions the Committee 's views were sustained in the Council of Ministers . |
| 25 | Some of it could be ascribed to a basic weakness in the Council of Ministers ' decision-making machinery . |
| 26 | I am doing my utmost to persuade my colleagues in the Council of Ministers that it would make no sense , for the European Community as well as this country , if the directives were promulgated in their present form . |
| 27 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 28 | Any change in fiscal measures has to be agreed by unanimous vote in the Council of Ministers . |
| 29 | The directive was then discussed at great length in the Council of Ministers . |
| 30 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |