How To Use Whitehall In A Sentence
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He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
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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.
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The pre-emptive slaughter of healthy animals was extended by the administrations in Whitehall and Edinburgh yesterday.
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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.
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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...
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‘We have several officers whose jobs are entirely devoted to crunching numbers for mandarins in Whitehall,’ he growls.
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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.
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New strategies for regional distribution were called for, and a fresh interest in the regions was shown by Whitehall.
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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
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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.
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He had painted the ceiling for the Whitehall Banqueting House, where masques had been performed and through which, in a pointed gesture, Charles I was made to pass on the way to his execution.
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Nonetheless, banking sources say that feedback from government suggests this is under active consideration in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couple flirted openly in front of each other in the their Whitehall office but few people knew that they were engaged in a clandestine relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
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King Charles I, who was executed in Whitehall 352 years ago this weekend.
To die like a king: new study says it's most dangerous job in history
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His Whitehall minutes were said to be easily identifiable by the fine, clear script.
Times, Sunday Times
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On 30 January 1649 the King was beheaded in front of a huge crowd at Whitehall.
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
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It removed the polytechnics (now universities) and sixth-form colleges from local control and allowed secondary schools to opt out of local authority control and become grant-maintained schools funded by Whitehall.
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In the United Kingdom, users and providers focus their attention on the spending departments in Whitehall.
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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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Lazrus visualized the data connections for both Kerry Whitehall and Seven, thick ropelike strands pointing at shiny black secure servers.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 21.2 of 31.1
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There is a large fountaine or bason which is to resemble that in the privy garden at Whitehall, which will ffront the house.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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Easier to blame the unworldly bureaucrats in Whitehall or Brussels than recognise, never mind grapple with, the underlying tendencies to economic atrophy.
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The threat comes not from some Whitehall johnny-come-lately, nor some politically correct illiterate chair of a focus group, seeking his day in the Sun.
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WHITEHALL -- Robert Sprague scored a game-high 21 points to lead the Cardinals past Whitehall.
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Its formal purpose was to strengthen consultation between Whitehall and town and county halls.
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The couple flirted openly in front of each other in the their Whitehall office but few people knew that they were engaged in a clandestine relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whitehall officials have repeatedly defended MI6's actions, saying the agency was following "ministerially authorised government policy.
Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims
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The spirit of the Whitehall farce is demonstrated in an incident ten days ago when a Cumbrian farmer was about to witness eight slaughtermen start to destroy his sheep flock.
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He strongly advocated the greater efficiency derived from the concentration of Government Offices in the Whitehall area, close to the Treasury.
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
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The antidraft movement was starting to simmer, a pot that had been threatening to come to a boil ever since four hundred activists had picketed the Whitehall Street induction center, a couple of them even burning their draft cards.
The Lovers
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He strongly advocated the greater efficiency derived from the concentration of Government Offices in the Whitehall area, close to the Treasury.
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As I jog down Whitehall, I notice there is bunting decorating the Treasury.
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Whitehall's biggest potential ally is the United States, which is sending a large delegation to fight the ban.
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Similarly, the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities.
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Part of my job is sitting on a horse in a sentry box at Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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They felt that such a measure would ‘take away the power of control of currency and dictation of it from Whitehall from six thousand miles away‘.
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The best-known streets of London are Fleet Street, the Strand, Piccadilly, Whitehall, Pall Mall, Downing Street, and Lombard Street.
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However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions, although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen.
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
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He's had a major riot in his lifer wing; suddenly he's in the hot seat, doubtless under a lot of pressure from Whitehall.
RIOT
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The councillor, like his Labour predecessor, points out that this city gets a bad deal from Whitehall.
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UK airlines will meet transport officials in Whitehall this week to discuss a response.
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Whitehall estimates 95,000 RN personnel alone served in the frozen theatre, and there could have been a similar number of merchantmen involved.
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Yorkshire is a lone voice in trying to lobby Whitehall to see if we can get fatstock markets classified as slaughter points so that the 20-day ban is not triggered.
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Conservatives want less red tape and micromanagement from Whitehall pen pushers, so we can put more police officers back on patrol in the Vale of York.
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But the more seriously the sovereignty of Whitehall is challenged, the more vengeful the state becomes.
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They therefore proved natural allies in her assault upon the seat of consensus in Whitehall.
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Clarke, whose father was a Whitehall mandarin, is known to believe that ministers, not civil servants, should be the mouthpiece for government policy.
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A group of Whitehall officials are sitting listening with rapt attention to an account of the importance of scone-making for a group of three-year-olds.
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refashion" foreign policy by opening up some key senior Whitehall and diplomatic positions to outside experts rather than career civil servants.
IcScotland
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While they were in Whitehall numerous motorists tooted their car horns in support, reminding those who took part of last year's protest march in Devizes in which 500 people participated.
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WHITEHALL -- Zach Haynes stayed off his back in a 3-1 loss to Whitehall heavyweight Grant Gebo, allowing Hudson Falls to slip away with a 38-36 non-league victory over the Railroaders on Thursday night.
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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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However, most national politicians and local councillors share the civil service preference for the functional and centralized system based on Whitehall.
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An effective personnel department in Whitehall would ensure more cross-posting between departments.
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On Saturday July 9, the Queen will unveil a monument to the women of the Second World War in Whitehall.
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Any sensible policy implemented will, by its nature, be impossibleto trace to a specific suggestion, since a number of people, within and without Whitehall, will arrive at it.
Here's a suggestion: log off and write to your MP instead
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Unions fear that the move could become a blueprint for Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can legitimately ask what competence an official based in Whitehall has to solve the problems of rural Scotland.
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They came, not during committee meetings in Whitehall, but after informal chats at ministers' houses during the Easter holiday.
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We can legitimately ask what competence an official based in Whitehall has to solve the problems of rural Scotland.
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Whitehall, hangs in the great upper rotunda, which is a setting not unworthy of its fame.
In and Around Berlin
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After my sandwich and a drink, I got a cab to my own office in Whitehall, and rang Seddon.
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The Centre for Social Justice CSJ says it has identified a dysfunction in Whitehall where cuts are being made on the basis of "hunches" instead of sound analysis of whether or not a programme is productive.
Coalition cuts being made on basis of 'hunches', says Tory-linked thinktank
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They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall.
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The possibility of three infantry battalions being cut or merged has already been aired in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where is the ancient music of mothers clattering their saucepan lids down Whitehall for their rights?
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Whitehall had poured millions of pounds into an extensive programme of preventing violent extremism and a parallel programme of deradicalisation.
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Events moved quickly, though as Cullingworth's history reveals, not without great uncertainty and confusion in Whitehall.
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The Government was right to realise the need for more delegation of powers from Whitehall.
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He laughs, leans back in the squashy sofa in his Whitehall office, overlooking the Cenotaph war memorial, and refuses to confirm or deny the story.
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Beaumarchais/Livings is funnier, faster and subtler than, say, the average Whitehall farce and could be just as accessible.
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Not surprisingly, Whitehall has been hedging its bets with officials preparing briefs to cover a variety of eventualities.
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It's not only MPs and peers who are members, but many of the thousands of staff who work in the Palace of Westminster or in Whitehall.
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Decisions are frequently delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees.
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Under heavy escort he drove through the large crowd gathered in Whitehall and was somewhat mollified to find himself being cheered.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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That makes our debt interest the fourth biggest recipient of public money in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
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Only London's Metropolitan Police currently falls under direct control from Whitehall.
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Overnight he assumed control of the domestic agenda in a manner that surprised the prime minister, shocked his cabinet colleagues and astounded Whitehall's officials.
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Similarly, the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities.
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The man is to music bloggers what pissed Whitehall tittle-tattle is to Westminster diarists.
Kanye West's Runaway: Purple Rain or bird brains?
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Whitehall is also said to be considering laws to allow transcripts of phone conversations bugged by MI5 to be used as evidence in court.
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Similarly, the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities.
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Once upon a time, the hacks of Fleet Street and the politicians of Whitehall were all on the same side - that of the British establishment, united against the public.
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The Venetians will be following the route used by gondolas chosen by Charles II to escort his Royal barge in 1662 from Hampton Court to Whitehall.
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen
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One in every five secondary school pupils plays truant, according to Whitehall.
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WHITEHALL -- A 36-year-old Whitehall woman was charged with felony criminal mischief for damaging the car of a teen she believed cut him off, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
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Whitehall in the beginning of this war, that the vicinage of Europe had not only a right, but an indispensable duty and an exigent interest, to denunciate this new work, before it had produced the danger we have so sorely felt, and which we shall long feel.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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And it is expected he could go further with the effort to "refashion" foreign policy by opening up some key senior Whitehall and diplomatic positions to outside experts rather than career civil servants.
Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon
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Blair's chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, boasted of replacing feudal Whitehall baronies with a Napoleonic centralism.
Political briefing: A drip-drip bloodbath in SW1
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Then the Whitehall row erupted into the public domain.
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It's a niche business that worked well within the strictures imposed by Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her funeral was due to take place at today at St Peter's Church, Darwen, followed by the committal at Pleasington Crematorium followed by a gathering at the Whitehall Country Club.
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However, most national politicians and local councillors share the civil service preference for the functional and centralized system based on Whitehall.
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These groups present more direct challenges than other groups with established Whitehall connections.
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Four days later, Lord Goldsmith wrote him a formal note, prepared by his office and kept in Whitehall files.
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This was the best known of all 17th-cent. masques, mainly because of the spectacular torchlight procession (or ‘triumph’) of the masquers, from Holborn to Whitehall, which preceded the masque proper.
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‘Jack has been constantly exercised about this issue since it arose,’ said the Whitehall source.
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Labour councils like Manchester and even Lib-Con ones like Leeds have been enabled to regenerate their cities without getting constantly coshed by Whitehall.
The Art of the Putdown No 94
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Whitehall banqueting House ceiling, painted by Rubens.
British architecture: The English Renaissance
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
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Whitehall is/are refusing to confirm the reports.
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Northampton Borough Municipal Authority (NBMA), formed in 1940, provides water service in the Boroughs of Northampton and North Catasauqua and Allen Township in Northampton County, and the Borough of Coplay, Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County.
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Mr Major, who normally sleeps in a top-floor flat above his office, will be found other accommodation in Whitehall.
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WHITEHALL - The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.2 earthquake centered 2 miles southwest of Whitehall, between Bozeman and Butte.
Billingsgazette.com
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One afternoon we were sitting in the bar when a green-faced bishop stretched out his gaitered leg and tripped up a rosy-faced mandarin from Whitehall.
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Whitehall are / is refusing to comment.
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However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions, although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen.
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Confined by illness and death-threats to Whitehall, Cromwell wrestles with Parliament's offer of kingship.
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Whitehall's biggest potential ally is the United States, which is sending a large delegation to fight the ban.
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The stolen goods, four of 15 topiary shrubs snatched from Whitehall garden centre, Corsham Road, disappeared in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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We believe in openness - this Government has opened up Whitehall and beyond in ways unimagined, unattempted and unrealised by any previous government in the UK.
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They therefore proved natural allies in her assault upon the seat of consensus in Whitehall.
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Mr Prescott has still not moved out of his grace-and-favour flat in Admiralty House in Whitehall, Central London.
The Price of Lard
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The couple flirted openly in front of each other in the their Whitehall office but few people knew that they were engaged in a clandestine relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
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How could I tell Hutton to go to hell with his foul instructions - and have him bearing back to Whitehall (and Windsor and Horse Guards and Pall Mall) the shameful news that the Hector of Afghanistan, hero of Balaclava and Cawnpore, had said thank'ee but he'd rather not save Franz-Josef and the peace of Europe, if you don't mind.
Watershed
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The Whitehall whisperers were caught out by the deceptive intimacy of e-mail.
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And besides them, there's the invitation-only crowd at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to whom he will deliver the only formal speech of his visit.
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It removed the polytechnics (now universities) and sixth-form colleges from local control and allowed secondary schools to opt out of local authority control and become grant-maintained schools funded by Whitehall.
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This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart did pay me; L23 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at the time of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without taking any law in the world for.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660
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The possibility of three infantry battalions being cut or merged has already been aired in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Postponing new hospitals and roads causes far less aggro than sacking town hall or Whitehall workers ( Economist ).
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It's a niche business that worked well within the strictures imposed by Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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An ability that must have come in useful when trying to navigate his way through the Byzantine bureaucracy for which Whitehall is famous.
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The Home Office, not the most tentative of Whitehall departments, kept things vague.
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Of course, the fools in Whitehall wanted war, and so did the fools in Berlin.
Matthew Yglesias » Bush and Asia
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Whitehall is shorthand for British government departments.
Reuters: Top News
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But Government sources last night stressed that the aim was to decentralise powers down from Whitehall - not rob local councils of existing powers.
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We had gone from Silicon Glen to Mandarin Mountain and the “Scottish government” would be a lot more worried about our appalling levels of poverty-fuelling welfare dependency if they, not Whitehall, were picking up the bill.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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As environment secretary and foreign secretary, Mrs Beckett was living at the grace and favour Admiralty House in Whitehall, which enabled her to rent out her London flat.
For Foulkes Sake - step forward The Red Baron
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Eight geldings, three packhorses and a litter with its team of six litter horses, that had been brought up to Berwick from Whitehall, had already been sent into Scotland to help transport this party on the first leg of its journey.
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This surprise move was revealed in an unpublicised review by a senior Whitehall civil servant, Mike Baldwin, recently posted on the DETR's website.
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Whitehall officials were unable to explain it fully and refused to speculate when dole queues will start shortening.
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MPs should be fined for breaching their code of conduct, Whitehall's standards watchdog said yesterday.
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Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.
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Political parties of all shades should unite to press Whitehall for financial parity.
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At the time he was a middle-ranking civil servant in Whitehall.
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Tonight, Cockerell goes knocking on the doors of Whitehall's private offices.
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Two sets of giant arches will span the width of Whitehall to ensure the headcount is accurate.
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WHITEHALL - The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology said it has no reports that people felt a magnitude 4.3 earthquake centered about 12 miles south of Whitehall in southwestern Montana.
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Unions fear that the move could become a blueprint for Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Traffic between the Coolock interchange and Whitehall, which is down to one lane in each direction for 1.5km, added delays of 15 minutes to journeys.
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We can legitimately ask what competence an official based in Whitehall has to solve the problems of rural Scotland.
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Whenever standards fell short – whenever, in Aneurin Bevan's phrase, a bedpan was dropped – the echoes would reverberate through Whitehall.
Medical care: The non-national health service | Editorial
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I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall.
Heart of Darwin
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The Gurkhas have managed to cut back some of their numbers since the changes to their terms and conditions, but there is still a large overstaffing because of over-recruitment," said one Whitehall source.
Defence cuts: Gurkhas and RAF take brunt
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The plan was roundly reJected elsewhere in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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They therefore proved natural allies in her assault upon the seat of consensus in Whitehall.
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Beaumarchais/Livings is funnier, faster and subtler than, say, the average Whitehall farce and could be just as accessible.
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Not surprisingly, Whitehall has been hedging its bets with officials preparing briefs to cover a variety of eventualities.
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They were called grant-maintained schools - schools that were free from LEA control and funded directly by Whitehall.
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Most of our unique regulatory overkill is made in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday the crowd cheered as the veterans marched down Whitehall, service caps and berets, glengarries and bowler hats, worn once more, together with rows of medals covering chests.
British Blogs
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Many of these skinny-lovers (as the tabloids labelled them) went to the Whitehall protests with unmemorable banners and chants.
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That makes our debt interest the fourth biggest recipient of public money in Whitehall.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the girl beside him was beautiful enough to take Whitehall by storm, to be berhymed by Waller, and to give to Lely a subject above all flattery.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
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The omens, however, from within Whitehall are not encouraging.
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It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen
