Example sentences of "secretary of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Puritano and Korb ( 1981 ) report the directions of the Secretary of Defense to improve the effectiveness of the PPB system .
2 The reasoned amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside ( Mr. Jones ) and other Opposition Members seeks to make the point that the provisions would enable the Secretary of State to weaken the protection , which , I suppose , goes alongside the need for provisions to strengthen the protection .
3 What reassurance does it give to people who might suffer damage due to a change in groundwater level when the Bill permits the Secretary of State to weaken the groundwater provisions ?
4 When the present Secretary of State addressed the House on that occasion , he might also have taken the opportunity to draw to the attention of the House and to remind the public outside , particularly in Scotland , that the nature of sovereignty in the Scottish constitutional tradition is different from that of Westminster .
5 ‘ Can the Secretary of State answer the question which has remained unanswered since this dispute began and remains unanswered .
6 The applicant then submitted that a statutory redundancy payment was ‘ pay ’ within article 119 and that on the employer 's default to make that payment the Secretary of State guaranteed the sum under section 106 .
7 My next point is on a relatively minor announcement that was made on the same day that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the changes in benefits and contributions .
8 The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% .
9 In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge .
10 Andrew Beattie 's wife saw the secretary of state read the statement on television .
11 They , too , saw the secretary of state read the statement .
12 Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ?
13 The Secretary of State accepted the TGAT report as a basis for progress and commissioned further reports from the Group including one on the problems of practical implementation which gave a glimpse of the elaborate machinery that would be necessary .
14 The Secretary of State accepted the inspector 's conclusion and recommendation to allow the appeals .
15 Can the Secretary of State give the fabrication start date , an important issue for the progress of work for the yard and for the timetabling of entry into service ?
16 The Act also empowers the Secretary of State to define the structure and content of each of these subjects in considerable detail , and to specify what pupils of different abilities should study and achieve at various ages .
17 ’ In 1984 , the secretary of state designated the historic areas of five cities : Canterbury , Chester , Exeter , Hereford and York .
18 In accordance with the adopted procedure the Secretary of State consulted the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge before determining when the date of the first review should occur after each applicant had served a term of imprisonment to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence .
19 A Department spokesman said : ‘ The Secretary of State called the meeting so he could hear from all sides of the debate .
20 ‘ If the Secretary of State asks the NGC to state their preferred route , it could save the inquiry a lot of time and money . ’
21 If so , will the Secretary of State make the results publicly available ?
22 And in the light of this experience the Secretary of State take the view that , and then goes on to list all the factors .
23 Giving a brilliant object lesson in the art of applying intense pressure , and with quite as much skill as the masterly early rounding-up in the UN , the secretary of state gathered the necessary billions .
24 Lord Clyde , appointed by the Secretary of State to lead the Inquiry , outside Kirkwall Town Hall .
25 I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended .
26 It is not necessary that the prisoner should be further protected by compelling the Secretary of State to give the reasons for his decision .
27 I am sure that the Secretary of State recognises the sensitivities of the middle east peace process .
28 The Secretary of State paved the way for the greening of all Whitehall departments through a White Paper to be published next year and set a target on the recycling of household waste .
29 It could then be only too convenient if the Secretary of State made the decision not to investigate the accident .
30 The Secretary of State made the statement once outside the House .
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