An alternative means of streamlining councils is for them to delegate power to a cabinet-style executive.
The constitution establishes that the legislative power has the power to fire cabinet ministers but can do it only after three years of government.
Sir Reg said it was "unfortunate" that he had not been asked whether he would take on the role envisaged for him in the agreement as co-chair along with the SDLP's Margaret Ritchie of a working group to examine ways to improve how the power-sharing cabinet operates.
Power in the Irish cabinet is now largely in the hands of this triumvirate of Fianna Fail aristocrats.
Parliament has tried 19 times to vote for a new president, but has failed because of disagreements on how to share power in a future Cabinet.
Michel Suleiman to fill the post, political wrangling among Lebanon's political factions -- including disagreements on how to share power in a future Cabinet -- has kept the issue from coming up for a vote.
Over in Zimbabwe a constitutional draft had suggested that the presidential term should be limited to 10 years and that executive power should be distributed within a cabinet.
Thatcher's cabinet throughout her time in power and became Treasury chief under her Conservative successor, John Major.
During the blackouts it enacted a cabinet reshuffle, and the power minister was promoted to a more senior post.
Mr Koizumi, who has also been widely criticised for his indifferent response to the scandals, is getting weaker by the day, prompting speculation that he may soon have to give in to members of the old guard within his party and reshuffle the cabinet to give them more power, with dangerous implications for his so far largely unfulfilled promises of reform.
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President Sarkozy told his cabinet France would do everything in its power to save Greece.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has named her cabinet, four days after returning to power with a tiny majority backed by independent MPs.
It doesn't forget to remind that Mr Singh is an "unelected" prime minister who "lacks a political base of his own, " and that political power is held by Mrs Gandhi who holds no cabinet position.
Your departure this time, though, will further increase the power of two men in this government - the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood and the Chancellor, party strategist and Dave's other best political friend, George Osborne.
If he is to be the strong, even radical leader that he claims to want to be, the most immediate use of that power should lie in the appointment of a resolute cabinet rather than the muddled cabinet-in-waiting that was elected last year by the party and is stipulated by Labour tradition.
The committee has the power to "call in" decisions taken by the cabinet and can recommend that these decisions are re-examined.
But Mr Berlusconi is reluctant to tinker with his cabinet, which reflects a delicate balance of power between rival factions in his four-party coalition.
On that same subject, David Cameron's suggestion that if he won power, he would bring opposition leaders into a war cabinet would strike many people as a very sensible one.
Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has struggled to forge a power-sharing agreement and has yet to fill key Cabinet positions, including the ministers of defense, interior and national security, while his backers have shown signs of wobbling support.
Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has struggled to forge a lasting power-sharing agreement and has yet to fill key Cabinet positions, including the ministers of defense, interior and national security, while his backers have also shown signs of wobbling support.
But there's one area in which he's keen to take more power to himself, and that's in selecting his own shadow cabinet.
The army said it has handed most of its executive powers to Mr. Ganzouri and his newly appointed cabinet, but demonstrators have demanded that SCAF yield all of its power to a civilian president or council.
With him died the monopoly on power both inside Fatah, where a committee will have to approve the new cabinet, and outside it, where groups such as Hamas see a chance to capitalise on their popularity.
Despite Prior's enthusiasm, the scheme had few supporters in the British cabinet and was firmly rejected by the SDLP as falling far short of power-sharing with a meaningful Irish dimension.
Mr Cameron and all other members of the current cabinet, as well as colleagues of Lady Thatcher during her 11 years in power, were among 2, 300 mourners at the funeral at St Paul's Cathedral.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan soon (in 1961) gave her a junior office at Pensions, and when the Conservatives returned to power in 1970, she was fortunate to be allotted to the one seat in the cabinet reserved for a woman, secretary of state for education.
Chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told an urgent press conference that the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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The council's cabinet met on Tuesday night and offered its conditional support for plans for the new nuclear power station near Leiston.
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