The prime minister's immediate fate was once again in the hands of his cabinet colleagues.
That might cheer his cabinet colleagues, yet the government's loss of support could persist.
We can only wish his cabinet colleagues draw on his example in dealing with their own sub-par performers.
His cabinet colleagues know his iron grip over their budgets is part of the government's defining political strategy.
Prof Ebdon's appointment was supported by "all" his cabinet colleagues, he told MPs.
But, after Russia's economic collapse, Mr Bozhkov should be able to persuade his cabinet colleagues to be thankful for any sales at all.
To be precise, David Cameron told his Cabinet colleagues last Tuesday that they had 24 hours to tweak the text before it was locked down.
Mr Ruggiero, one of the strongest pro-European voices in Mr Berlusconi's centre-right team, strongly criticised his cabinet colleagues last Thursday, for negative attitudes towards the European Union.
"We know that his personal involvement has been instrumental in securing support from his Cabinet colleagues, " said Mr Greenwell, adding that "we should recognise the support that has been given".
The budget proposals were approved last week without discussion as opposition members walked out of Parliament demanding the resignations of the prime minister and two of his cabinet colleagues over allegations of corruption.
That's how the chief secretary to the Treasury slapped down the idea, coming from some of his cabinet colleagues, that he and the chancellor should increase the budget for capital spending to help stimulate growth.
Instead of "springing" some grand plan on the public, he said he preferred to get on with devolving decision-making powers across a range of areas and disclosed that he was lobbying his cabinet colleagues to accelerate the process.
This is to be done by means of a supra-cabinet body called the National Security Council in which he, as president, will preside over meetings attended by the prime minister and four of his cabinet colleagues, plus the president's nominees.
In an unexceptional report warning that India could be the first Bric nation to lose its investment grade status, the agency's economists say Mr Singh "often appears to have limited ability to influence his cabinet colleagues and proceed with the liberalisation policy he favours".
On Wednesday, it was forced to cut short the budget session of Parliament by two days as opposition members disrupted its proceedings repeatedly, accusing the government of being corrupt and demanding the resignation of the prime minister and two of his cabinet colleagues including Mr. Kumar.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government was forced to cut short the budget session of Parliament by two days as opposition members disrupted its proceedings repeatedly, accusing the government of being corrupt and demanding the resignation of the prime minister and two of his cabinet colleagues.
But Labour's white paper, outlining the devolution proposals, says that the British and Scottish governments will have to agree to a common position before they turn up in Brussels, which simply makes public the debate that has always taken place in private between the Scottish secretary and his cabinet colleagues.
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Hagel will know that Congress is watching him distrustfully, that he will lack the authority and prestige of his other Cabinet colleagues, and that his first job in office must be to prove himself deserving of the job to which he was so grudgingly confirmed.
The President's attempt to derail the Independent Counsel's inquiry--an inquiry the very purpose of which was to discover whether the President gave false testimony and tampered with witnesses--by lying to his colleagues, his cabinet, his confidantes, the media, the American people, and ultimately, the grand jury, is--beyond a reasonable doubt--a wide-ranging and highly public obstruction of justice, deeply damaging to the judicial fabric of the United States.
Shiokawa seems a uninspiring choice in comparison to his colourful colleagues in the new cabinet, including Mr Koizumi or Economics Minister Heizo Takenaka, both of whom appear frequently on television.
He and half his colleagues were withdrawn from the cabinet in May by the PPP's biggest coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (N).
When he suggested opening his ministry's files to the public, cabinet colleagues told him to wait.
But, intriguingly, he chose to sit among his party colleagues, and not with the rest of the cabinet.
The First Minister reaffirmed his opposition to an increase in the number of members and said Cabinet colleagues are always available to attend Europe Council of Minister's meetings.
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Lord King, who proposed the motion, recognised his colleagues' arguments but warned that "plenty of people have got lost in the Cabinet Office".
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But David Miliband's former cabinet colleagues, Lord Mandelson and Jack Straw, said they did not think it was the end of his political career.
As chairman of a cabinet committee on constitutional reform he has dealt out cross-examinations of his fellow-ministers that were felt more appropriate for the adversarial proceedings of the law courts than for a cabinet of colleagues.
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