(n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
(n.) A private room in which consultations are held.
(n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
(n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:
(n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere.
(n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.
(a.) Suitable for a cabinet; small.
(v. i.) To inclose
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(2) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(3) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(4) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(5) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(6) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
(7) A small band of shadow cabinet members have lined up to refuse to serve in posts they haven’t even been offered, on the basis of objection to economic policies they clearly haven’t read.
(8) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(9) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(10) Abdelaziz Belkhadem, head of the ruling FLN party and a cabinet minster, said the government could be doing more but added: "Protesters in Algeria want better social and economic conditions.
(11) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
(12) A small kitchen cabinet was due to meet on the morning of Friday October 5 at Downing Street, two days after David Cameron had concluded his no-notes conference speech in Blackpool with a challenge to Brown to "call that election".
(13) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
(14) There may, however, be a large section on "the nudge unit", otherwise known as the cabinet office's behavioural insights team .
(15) Imagine witnessing a game of bridge being played in the Cabinet War Rooms in the year 2072 AD.
(16) Who's backing who in the Tory leadership contest The dramatic events have put May well in the lead in parliament, with the public backing of well over 100 MPs, including 10 cabinet ministers, followed by Leadsom, with just under 40 MPs, and then Michael Gove and Stephen Crabb with over 20.
(17) The Conservative cabinet minister has complete discretion as to whether to follow Ofcom's advice or not, leaving him the choice of clearing the proposed deal or referring it to the Competition Commission.
(18) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(19) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
(20) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
Government
Definition:
(n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
(n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.
(n.) The right or power of governing; authority.
(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.
(n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.
(n.) Management of the limbs or body.
(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(7) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(8) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(9) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(10) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(11) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(12) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(13) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(14) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(15) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(18) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(19) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(20) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.