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US
/ˈhwaɪtˌhɔɫ, ˈwaɪtˌhɔɫ/
]
NOUN
- the British civil service
- a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices
How To Use Whitehall In A Sentence
- He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
- Sceptics point out that the poll only offered a straight choice between Whitehall and regional rule, and left out the option of more local control.
- The pre-emptive slaughter of healthy animals was extended by the administrations in Whitehall and Edinburgh yesterday.
- The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
- I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- ‘We have several officers whose jobs are entirely devoted to crunching numbers for mandarins in Whitehall,’ he growls.
- Substitute Steve Whitehall dived to head in Nuneaton's opener, but within a minute Darryn Stamp bustled his way through to lash in the leveller.
- New strategies for regional distribution were called for, and a fresh interest in the regions was shown by Whitehall.
- He is expected to go further with the effort to "refashion" foreign policy by opening up more senior Whitehall and diplomatic positions to outside experts rather than career civil servants. ITN Headlines
- Mr Blair himself was taking a personal interest: the Prime Minister's closest aides were copied in to all the memos and documents winging around Whitehall.
