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John Manley is already a Privy Councillor and well qualified to chair a cabinet committee formed for this purpose. posted by BBS at 5:22 AM
Numbers 2008
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One Labour Privy Councillor told me that if Gordon didn't get his act together by the summer that Jack Straw or Alan Johnson would have to step in.
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Thing about Dion specifically is that, because he has been a Minister/Privy Councillor and perhaps because he has been an MP, I don't know the exact rules he would have already gone through top-level security clearance, because everyone who works in Privy Council has to have clearance.
stench 2006
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The only confident opinion expressed was that of the elderly Privy Councillor, who from the steps of the Throne ejaculated,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various
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Twice he was called away by appointments which were the result of his growing fame as poet and scholar, -- the first time in 1826, when he was made Professor of the Oriental Languages at the University of Erlangen; and again in 1840, when he was appointed to a similar place in the University of Berlin, with the title of Privy Councillor.
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When therefore we use this petition, we may think rather of the members of the Cabinet than of those whom the King has honoured with the title of Privy Councillor.
The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson
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Schlosser is a Privy Councillor and Professor of History in the
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 Various
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DONALD MACLEAN, as senior Privy Councillor, took the _pas_ and was able from personal experience to give his conception of the ideal
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Various
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Canterbury, 1812-30, and 1835-37; Privy Councillor; Governor of Madras.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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He refused the Archbishopric of Braga and the Primacy of Goa and the Bishopric of Coimbra; nor would he accept the titles of Privy Councillor or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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