What's the difference between cabinet and undersecretary?
Cabinet
Definition:
(n.) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
(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.
Undersecretary
Definition:
(n.) A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lau Kong-wah, undersecretary for constitutional affairs, said he had agreed to multiple rounds of discussions conducted on a basis of equality.
(2) Meanwhile, the Obama administration has once again sent its undersecretary of the treasury, Lael Brainard, to Europe.
(3) Last week, a report by the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment, which included two former senior US generals, and a Republican former congressman and lawyer, Asa Hutchinson, who served as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency from 2001 before being appointed in January 2003 as Undersecretary in the biggest division of the Department of Homeland Security, described the practice of torture by the US administration as "indisputable".
(4) Thomas Countryman, former US acting undersecretary for arms control and international security, commented: “It’s an indication of how rapidly our standards are falling when we’re reasonably pleased that President Trump has not made an obvious error.” Pre-meeting hype had focused on whether Trump would confront Putin over Russia’s interference in the US election.
(5) Catherine Ashton, the top EU foreign policy official, was in Washington discussing the options, while the US Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, David Cohen, toured EU capitals to coordinate possible sanctions moves.
(6) Michael Lawlor, Governor Dannel P Malloy's undersecretary for criminal justice, predicted a flood of registrations over the final days of 2013.
(7) The measures are part of President Obama's attempts to "target transnational criminal organisations and isolate them from the global financial system", David Cohen, the US undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
(8) That is good.” Sandro Gozi , Italy’s undersecretary for European affairs, was also pleased that May had at last confirmed what many had long suspected.
(9) The testimony challenges the quality of the state department's accountability review board report on Benghazi: "The ARB's failure to review the decisions of the undersecretary for management and other senior leaders who made critical decisions regarding all aspects of operations in Tripoli to include occupancy of facilities... is inexplicable.
(10) The government agreed, and its man in charge of the crisis, Maurice Foley, undersecretary for defence (navy) – a title that did not suggest the spill was a top priority – insisted there was "no question" of deliberately destroying the supertanker.
(11) As an eager parliamentary undersecretary, I said I had already written briefing notes.
(12) For example, Sen Elizabeth Warren challenged federal regulators including David Cohen, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Department of the Treasury, in a Senate hearing in March 2013 about the calculation.
(13) William Luti, a former navy officer and ex-aide to Mr Cheney, runs the day-to-day operations, answering to Douglas Feith, a defence undersecretary and a former Reagan official.
(14) Sewel is a former senior vice-principal of the University of Aberdeen and a former parliamentary undersecretary of state at Scottish Office, serving as the minister for agriculture, environment and fisheries between 1997-1999.
(15) An insight into how the government in London initially resisted the anti-colonial winds of change is contained in a "secret and personal letter" sent out in March 1953 by Sir Thomas Lloyd, permanent undersecretary at the Colonial Office.
(16) When we determine that an institution is not upholding this obligation, then there must be consequences,” said Ted Mitchell, undersecretary at the education department.
(17) Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, undersecretary for multilateral affairs and human rights at Mexico’s foreign ministry, said the students’ disappearance had strengthened the government’s determination to root out corruption and fight drug gangs.
(18) US State Department undersecretary David Johnson estimated on Tuesday that Mexican traffickers make profits of between $13bn and $25bn a year.
(19) Paul said he was concerned should reports be confirmed that Trump plans to nominate former UN ambassador John Bolton, a leading supporter of the Iraq invasion, as the undersecretary of state.
(20) It is the last thing Washington wants.” Varoufakis, a visiting economics professor in Austin, Texas until his decision to join the new government in January, was scheduled to meet Nathan Sheets, US Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, two days before Tsipras heads to Moscow for talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday.