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EU finance ministers last week were unable to agree on how, or by how much, to increase the EFSF's resources.

We instruct our Finance Ministers to complete the implementation of these decisions in line with the timetable set out in the Action Plan.

One solution would be for the PM to appoint up to, say, five lords as ministers, who would be permitted to address the Commons.

The beliefs of its two main political parties are often hard to tell apart. Both their leaders are grand sons of (rival) prime ministers.

An official said the precise size of the package would not be disclosed, unless eurozone ministers insisted on doing so.

Economists from Asia and the United States and government ministers from India and China said the U. S. economy was on a downward course.

Nevertheless, an Opec official said the meeting was likely to be held and that the preferred date among ministers was October 18-19.

But WTO chief Pascal Lamy said ministers wanted him to revive the talks quickly and he would not "throw in the towel. "

And the first thing I am going to tell you frankly about it is that this country has got to be governed, not by you, but by your ministers.

He took formal charge of the ruling Peronist movement, routinely gave orders to ministers and oversaw economic policy.

In his inauguration speech, he said ministers in his administration must be "competent and just" .

It is not hard to see why even Western finance ministers with a low opinion of Mr. Sarkozy have rushed to anoint her.

Ministers knew it made sense to crack down on junk foods but did not have the political appetite to take on such a huge industry.

The country is now trying to push into creative industries, with limited success thus far, as ministers admit.

As one of his followers pointedly remarked today, in European democracies party leaders and prime ministers tend to be elected.

Knowing this, one of his highest ministers tried to take advantage of him.

There were plans to launch regular high-level dialogue between the two countries' economics ministers, he said.

Gates spoke on his way to Krakow, Poland for a meeting of NATO defense ministers.

Presidents, prime ministers and other leaders do not always like to talk about their health.

SINCE 2006 Japan has had no fewer than five prime ministers. Three of them lasted just a year.

The Reverend Ernest Leong Gie (usually known as Leong On Tong) was one of the two leading Chinese Methodist ministers in Melbourne.

However, officials said Japan had not made such a request, and ministers were not expected to agree firm policy action.

All those corrupt ministers are trying to cream off as much as possible before the next election.

Prime ministers of Japan and the Czech Republic have had an unusual dinner companion as they met for a state dinner in Prague.

If an emperor was like this, princes, dukes and ministers, relatives, eunuchs and officials must have been infected as well.

Yet back in London, ministers talk of special opt-outs giving British business low-cost, deregulated membership of the common market.

Most of its small group of able ministers have resigned in disgrace (some more than once), fallen out with the leadership or died.

Firing three ministers and shuffling another three might not always be a sign of a seismic policy shift.

He said that he hoped to have final agreement by the next Asean finance ministers meeting in Bali in May.

Mr. Cameron said he was glad to be 'back in China . . . with such a big delegation of ministers and business people. '

The cabinet in which he received the reports of his ministers and other high officials was a very lofty apartment with four large windows.

How much did ministers know about Lord Goldsmith's initial caveats? How free were they to question the basis for his opinions?

So he thought out a way to test how high his prestige among the ministers was and also to find out who dared to oppose him.

Few of his ministers are saying, even in private, that they expect him to lose the next election.

With investors in Asia poised to start selling again in just a few hours, the ministers knew they needed to come up with a plan -- and fast.

Whether or not finance ministers are not convinced by such calculations, operators seem to be.

The constant merry-go-round of prime ministers at a time of entrenched deflation is increasingly seen as a national disgrace.

Once upon a time the presidents, prime ministers and chancellors were the same as you. They went to university, worked, played.

To deepen and promote China-Russia energy cooperation is one of the major topics of the meeting between the two prime ministers.

Europe's transportation ministers decided to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss how and when to get planes back in the air.

We have governments ready to invest in making that work, we have ministers of finance, planning, local government and health who were here.

Earlier, Ugandan MPs voted unanimously to call on three senior government ministers, including the prime minister, to be suspended.

Ministers began to preach sermons against "Ephemera, " and one, who too stoutly stood for much of its content, was expelled for heresy.

These days, European ministers are no longer trying to gain a few more years; a few months or even weeks will do.

In theory, Whitehall officials and ministers back in London oversaw the empire.

Ministers were quickly bogged down in an attritional struggle with a "machine" they saw as hostile to many of their reforms.

Presidential advisers are as likely to decide policy as ministers. The prime minister's job has been downgraded to that of manager.

But Health Ministers seem to agree that family planning was the most cost-effective way to reduce the number of women dying needlessly.

Ministers were accused of trying to ensure the company's collapse came at the start of the 2005 election campaign and not before.

He refused to set a timetable for the formation of a new government, and would not say who he planned to nominate as ministers.

All the ministers believed the working luncheon is an important preparation session for the GMS Leaders' Meeting on the next day.

The two prime ministers discussed the matter and found they were at one: both wanted to avoid a trade war at any cost.

He made the call during a meeting near the Russian capital with the visiting prime ministers of Bulgaria, Moldova, and Slovakia.

The Commonwealth Ministers Action Group held a meeting in London Monday and decided to resume Pakistan's Commonwealth membership.

A statement by foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) even seemed to equate the recognition of Israel with that of Palestine.

Other foreign ministers, including Austria's Ursula Plassnik and Luxembourg's Jean Asselborn said the proposal to bet had only been a joke.

Since the 1920s, Governors-General have acted solely on the advice of the local ministers, rather than on that of the British Government.

Though the ministers will doubtless go on talking, it is increasingly hard to see a safe way out of this crisis.

Brave talk, but German ministers do not seem ready to test their officials' confidence.

Ministers said the stimulus was as large as or even larger than steps adopted in other major economies.

However, there was no such a large scale, the ministers who do not know How to gain the upper hand.

Several ministers have warned that the current ministerial meeting would be the last chance to make progress for at least a year.

"The finance ministers did not want to see anything disagreeable which they would be forced to deal with, " he said.

He said the market might not get much time to digest what finance ministers said.

The finance ministers of the European Union promised that no other financial institution of systemic importance would be allowed to default.

She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.

Latest information says the President Tandja has now been separated from his ministers and taken to a unknown military camp.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he would recommend sending peacekeepers at the next EU foreign ministers meeting next month.

When it is over, ministers will be frustrated at how much this affects their ability to do their job well.

At least two of his ministers have past links to educational businesses (as do prominent opposition politicians).

Has my newly acquired privilege as one of God's ministers imparted to me as yet any fitness for the wonderful work of a preacher?

"We are in the midst of a regional earthquake, " says one of his ministers, clearly horrified by its possible reverberations.

On Friday, Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the eurogroup of finance ministers, said the euro was too strong against the US currency.

Sweden is trying to build a consensus on its proposals within the EU council of ministers.

Reports that the general is to be dismissed are gaining currency among government ministers.

All of a sudden, the ministers are willing to consider measures that, until a few days ago, were deemed unthinkable.

Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade.

One of Mr Lee's prospective ministers and several presidential aides have had to resign after questions were raised over their ethics.

Citing higher U. S. inventories of crude, ministers said the weak dollar was driving oil's rally, not a lack of oil in world markets.

And China will not lack allies: the finance ministers of Germany and South Africa have already spoken out on this.

Ministers have promised a national road-pricing system to help ease the problem, but it is a decade away at least.

Ministers are considering three options for private sector involvement, set out in a document circulated by the European Commission.

At the heart of the discussions among finance ministers and central bankers are the foreign-exchange policies of China and Japan.

We instruct our Trade Ministers to achieve this objective and stand ready to assist directly, as necessary.

Some ministers, he says, have given it a distinctly "mixed" reception.

That makes it a tempting target for deficit-cutting finance ministers.

The hope was that the exclusive club of finance ministers and central bankers would meet and provide concrete plans to tackle the crisis.

to put in place policies that ensures that the police and MACC are independent of UMNO and its ministers in government.

When I found myself up against these angry Arab League ministers it was as head of the UN's development arm.

Irish ministers, however, insisted that they were not in discussions with the EU and said they were determined to weather the storm.

For days the president refused even to meet any of his ministers and broke his silence only after his priest intervened.

This was the message, too, that the foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, took to a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

Ministers must eventually grapple with the question of whether to lift the ban on free schools being run for profit.

It has been only five weeks since the new ministers walked through the door.

And with growing public pressure, Merkel has also signalled that she would like her ministers to take greater steps to address the issue.

Eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels in their latest attempt to plot a path out of the EU's worst crisis.

This was an alliance of black ministers and churches organized to pursue nonviolent direct action against segregation.

The confrontation follows talks between the foreign ministers of both countries over the land surrounding an ancient temple.

Ministers said the move would break the link between youth smoking and related long-term problems by making tobacco less attractive.

Mr. Yang today will continue speaking with relevant countries' foreign ministers and information will be released accordingly, he said.

Like other Conservative prime ministers before him, David Cameron is facing a major revolt from his own MPs over Europe.

MOST British prime ministers end up trying to cut a dash on the world stage, even if at the outset they forswear such vanities.

Ministers are hoping for a voluntary agreement with supermarkets to charge customers for plastic bags rather than give them out for free.

In Tunis , Arabian foreign ministers have ended a two-day meeting with a strong statement support for the Palestinians.

This allowed Brown to release his personal minute to ministers saying he had not breached the ministerial code.

The ministers of the crown, and in particular, Mr. Baldwin, the Prime Minister, have always treated me with full consideration.

And this was the first hard lesson that Obama learned in Chicago: most of these ministers weren't willing to cooperate with each other.

The ministers said that there was general agreement that there was a 'window of opportunity' to speed up the talks.

After Mr. Koizumi's departure in 2006, two prime ministers stepped down less than a year into their respective terms.

Mao Changxi was one of the three Chinese ministers appointed to this Office, the other three being Manchu.

WTO's highest decision-making authority of Ministers, held at least one meeting every two years.

It used to be the time where only kings wore a leopard skin, but now throughout rituals and ceremonies, traditional healers and ministers.

Approval by the congress is a legal formality, with all important decisions worked out in advance by ministers and their aides.

Foreign ministers are usually among Germany's most popular politicians; Mr Westerwelle is among the least.

elite ministers and court officials, is the monarch must be something with which to plan into account degree of people.

Morin also said the EU ministers had made strides on ways to improve Europe's military capabilities in cooperating more closely.

The answer is not the discussion among the finance ministers of the Group of Seven high-income countries.

This was the government's response to attacks on the homes of several ministers and of the main opposition leader.

Ominously, it would be up to ministers to define the national interest.

While not agreeing on a great deal, most ministers pooh-poohed enthusiasm for a quick global economic recovery.

As preparations for the G20 summit get under way , finance ministers meeting in London deserve credit for averting economic apocalypse .

The council's foreign ministers may announce some sort of action on black carbon when they meet in Nuuk, Greenland, in May.

Nato defence ministers have resisted calls for an air exclusion zone over Libya.

"I am leading my work here on the basis of a mandate adopted unanimously by the EU environment ministers, " he said.

This week the bank held its annual meeting in Shanghai, accompanied by legions of ministers, central bankers and businessmen.

On Thursday, NATO foreign ministers expressed support for a proposed third set of sanctions in the United Nations Security Council.

There was a civil strife in the court. In order to protect the king, some loyal ministers and the king hid in an old house.

From the outset, ministers, led by top exporter Saudi Arabia, said high oil prices of above $71 a barrel meant there was no need for action.

Accompanying the leaders are the Foreign Ministers, other ministers of the participant countries and a member of the Council of Europe.

Teachers, lawyers, doctors, professors and ministers are a few examples of those who will benefit from class work past a bachelor's degree.

Ministers agreed that this decision was fully justified by the economic conditions.

The ministers sat in conclave to discuss the matter.

Ministers said the total could be as high as 600, 000 if self-employed workers were included.

Also called hu ban, the shou ban was a note-tablet of ministers, and showed different ranks of ministers when made of different materials.

On October 18th President Nicolas Sarkozy called ministers to a crisis meeting to work out a strategy for guaranteeing petrol supplies.

The next phase of these negotiations could take place as euro-zone finance ministers meet late Tuesday in Brussels.

Several former ministers and a prime minister have agreed to pay back money that went missing when they were in office.

Christine Lagarde, finance minister, will outline the proposals at a meeting of finance ministers from the G20 in London on Friday.

Chinese ministers do not often publish their ideas like this.

These ministers will often give clues about what type of temple service is needed and what area of your life is to be effected.

Their foreign ministers decided those them will at least get a gamble behind closed entrances .

The ministers are laying the groundwork for discussions when their leaders gather in a few days.

The meeting of G20 finance ministers begins tomorrow in London, ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh later this month.

That's not the style of central bankers and finance ministers, at least in official sessions.

All government contractors are obliged to inform ministers promptly of any breach of sensitive or classified information.

One of his ministers was called the Royal Price Maker, and he was a very honest man.

Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators.

Examine the degree to which UK government policy, and decisions by UK ministers and officials, contributed to such abuse.

During the visit, Acting President and Prime Minister Putin met with him and the two Foreign Ministers held talks with each other.

Their foreign ministers decided that they would at least take a gamble behind closed doors.

In recent weeks Canadian government ministers have expressed optimism that the worst of the crisis might be over.

Since the 1980s at least two prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, gave their all in the search for peace.

This year thousands of Serbs turned up for the battle's commemoration, including several Serbian ministers.

Ministers will have to ask whether 20 per cent budget cuts are compatible with maintaining calm on the streets.

The next day, however, Mr Kibaki responded with apparent contempt to Mr Odinga's climb down by unilaterally appointing 17 cabinet ministers.

Running afoul of the Jiajing emperor's top ministers, he was banished to the frontier of the empire, to what is now Gansu Province.

Then, last week, Mr Medvedev ordered ministers to leave the boards of state-controlled companies.

His plan to introduce DNA tests for immigrants has run into trouble with some of his own ministers.

The Scottish Futures Trust, set up to squeeze value from public investment, has another idea that ministers are looking at.

Q: Foreign Ministers from a number of countries will meet in London on March 29 to discuss the current situation in Libya.

Black ministers from home called counterparts in New York to ask for pulpit time for our people on the Sunday before the election.

This has happened at a time when world leaders and ministers in other sectors have been primed, by crises, to listen very closely.

Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, said he had ordered ministers to prepare for any eventuality.

He said SAARC council of ministers meeting in Thimpu will finalize a declaration on the climate change.

"Prime ministers are easy to replace, " notes Lipman.

Ministers also pay more heed to the man expected to be the next prime minister, her 40-year-old son Rahul, than to the current one.

Instead, the council allowed its finance ministers to get stuck in tedious technical details, unable to take a decision.

Education ministers are already anxiously awaiting the next issue of its PISA study, which is due to be published on December 7th.

This time, however, it was the BRIC deputy finance ministers who met, not the ministers.

In an interview with French media interview she promised, she will no longer serve as ministers boarded a private jet during the half-step.

Two years into the round, as trade ministers gathered for a summit in Mexico, the World Bank was pushing another extravagant simulation.

To collect the exhibits, government ministers used TV appeals to ask for public donations.

For several blurring days, ministers have been trying to reach compromise on one key issue without success.

"No way it gets solved in March, " he said, when European finance ministers plan to meet.

But ministers are called to be ministers of the Word.

Ministers said they wanted to consult on a number of new areas as part of its "root and branch" review aimed at boosting employment.

Shadow ministers dutifully pop up to oppose, but seem more attuned to defend their own record than offer anything that resembles new policy.

Q: Regarding the upcoming G20 Finance Ministers' Meeting in London, can you tell us what China's stance will be at the meeting?

Despite the high prices, oil ministers decided last month to leave their quotas unchanged.

The companies said they would warn ministers against introducing emergency measures that could usher in a new form of online censorship.

"Ministers have done very little to tackle the root causes of our binge-drinking culture, " said Shadow Health Secretary Steve Webb.

A fair number of politicians will attend as well, including the prime ministers of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

But when news of the surrender reached the capital, the emperor's jealous ministers began to degrade Li Ling in front of the emperor.

Her tactic is not to identify too closely with any particular reforms and to let her ministers take the flak.

Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

Where once Mr Brown seemed to have no internal rivals, the ministers who could have finished him off now have a stronger hand.

Both ministers "underscored that we thought some of the changes taking place were real and significant" and "need to be continued. "

You are indeed a distinguished group, as you heard from the list: eminent scientists, committed partners, honourable ministers.

Another possibility would be to fire some of the more-hawkish ministers, notably the abrasive Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Ministers and officials admitted that any substantive progress would now have to wait until a new US president was in the White House.

The foreign ministers of the two countries are scheduled to hold their first formal peace dialogue since the 2008 terror strikes in Mumbai.

In 2004 ministers decided to make data on whistleblowing claims secret, so it is hard to tell how well the act is working.

His statement came after European sports ministers and Olympic committees came out against any boycott of the Games on Monday.

With a Dutch official acting as intermediary between the testy French and Germans, the ministers finally reached a compromise.

Miliband, speaking from a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Corfu, said the government was "deeply concerned" at the arrests.

Another issue expected to be decided at the four-monthly meeting and announced following is the reshuffling of current government ministers.

One of Mr Karzai's ministers said that, so long as the Taliban were "winning" , reconciliation would be "an empty phrase" .

Although his ministers said that the new policy would not harm officers' benefit packages, they still went on strike in response.

Mr Kim arrived in the Supreme People's Assembly to a standing ovation from his fellow ministers.

But North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions were expected to dominate talks among the ASEAN foreign ministers through the week.

Ministers from some key countries are expected to convene in Geneva the last week of June to try to advance the negotiations.

Yet caveats can only help a government so much. Ministers are alarmed, and rightly.

On the work of passion, patience, and a member of the Ministry of solidarity, one year I was promoted by the ministries of Ministers.

These religious fugitives sought a more rational and intellectual religious environment and our churches and its ministers have complied.

In any case, the British government is not about to propose a privacy law, ministers say.

In preparation for an evening's work, I and other ministers have had the difference in the stage arrangement.

The next prime ministers' meeting of the SCO member states is to be held in Kyrgyzstan in 2010.

His father, one of a line of Scottish Protestant Anglican ministers, didn't really encourage stops at Catholic churches.

Government officials have signalled that ministers have no objections to Huawei providing equipment for the project.

Two or three ministers enjoyed in this regard particular privileges.

Will anyone listen to its plea for an exemption from what ministers call a "moral" need to produce more housing across Britain?

This was the first time the agriculture ministers of the group of leading world economies have held a summit.

I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Ministers fear it will take time for the full impact of last autumn's financial trauma to show up in the labour market.

In UK, ministers are only allowed to keep gifts received in the course of their ministerial duties if they pay back the public purse.

"Our growth will be 8. 7% . . . I know other finance ministers who would give an arm and a leg for such figures, " he said.

Very importantly, ministers called for a "strong" replenishment of IDA, the World Bank's fund for the poorest 79 countries in the world.

Separately, the EU called a meeting of energy ministers Monday to discuss Japan's nuclear crisis and its consequences for the region.

Doctors say that ministers could immediately improve the situation by getting old vehicles off the road and enforcing speed limits.

EU transport ministers are now under pressure to speed up implementation of a plan that would introduce trans-national airspace blocks.

This weekend provides businessmen with the perfect opportunity to give ministers a sense of perspective.

And then he said what all ministers say. To conclude such matters. . . You may now kiss the bride.

Some of his ministers explicitly advise that any new building be confined to the blocks and the Jewish suburbs of Jerusalem.

When Mr Lamy invited trade ministers to the WTO's lakeside headquarters to try and shape an agreement, the odds were no better than evens .

It was not the scale of the turnover that raised eyebrows; most senior ministers retained their posts.

Add to that support for the king but rejection of many of his ministers, and the comparison looks less far-fetched.

European Union foreign ministers'meeting declared birds flu posed a global health threat if it shifted from birds to humans.

Ambassadors from Russia and NATO countries agreed to set a date for a meeting of their respective ministers.

Ministers said that Egypt was more serious than before about stanching the supply of missiles from Iran to Hamas.

Activists blocked the exits of the building where the ministers were meeting, and demanded an answer on the climate funding question.

U. S. officials played down the likelihood of a substantial communique after Saturday's meeting of finance ministers.

TWO weeks back in Kabul the world's foreign ministers demonstrated that they cannot agree on a solution to Afghanistan's trouble and strife.

Corruption scandals forced out two of his ministers, with a third redeployed.

I had confidential contacts with several of the French Ministers and with the successive chiefs of the French Government.

I wish to thank President Abbas for his presence here and also the ministers of the Arab League who have joined us.

But just talking about tax harmonisation brings some finance ministers out in a rash.

Finance ministers from the G20 said the measures would continue until global recovery is assured.

These people are meant to be the "masters of the universe" : presidents, prime ministers, bankers, billionaires.

After that, the EU's Council of Ministers as well as the European Parliament will take a crack at modifying them.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

When Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government came to power in 2005, ministers promised to do something about this.

He was the appointment of ministers hou Xun tomorrow and the son of fifteen years, which should be in first place.

Mr Rasmussen will present a draft of NATO's new blueprint, known as the "strategic concept" , to ministers in the autumn.

Foreign Ministers and representatives from China and Arab countries and Secretary General of the Arab League will be present at the meeting.

The argument that previous prime ministers frequently prorogued Parliament is no more convincing.

But the statement issued by the ministers left unclear how the imbalances would be reduced.

But how far this might be applicable to our courts, and favourites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine.

To his dearly beloved and most honoured fellow-ministers of the Catholic Church in every place, Alexander sends health in the Lord.

Ironically, health ministers may be in an unprecedented position to gain this political clout because of two especially troubling trends.

Then the king rose from his seat and questioned the ministers about why they had condemned the man to death.