The state still has a massive role, with top cabinet ministers all acting as chairmen of the board of big state run companies like oil and gas major Gazprom.
Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad, who became emir in 2006, has exercised his privilege of giving family members top cabinet posts, repeatedly choosing his nephew, Sheikh Nasser Muhammad, as prime minister.
President-elect Obama completed his top Cabinet selections Friday, saying his team of advisers can meet the economic challenges that lie ahead but warning that recovery will be years in the future.
She will discuss the Organization's cooperation with Bangladesh with the Prime Minister and top cabinet officials, and meet with the Founder and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee that has rich experience in non-formal education.
The three top Obama Cabinet positions are held by Clinton veterans: Secretary of State Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
At the touch of a remote control, the top of the cabinet withdraws and the television elevates.
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Ms. GREEN: Mm-hmm, up on top of the cabinet, right in between the cabinet and the ceiling trying to--the baby...
Agriculture Minister Dr Jack Cunningham is given a top job as the Cabinet "enforcer" in the government reshuffle.
His cabinet, top ministries throughout the government of Iran, are headed by, in many cases, veterans of that event.
It would make me miserable to expect my home to not have stacks of games and puzzles on top of the china cabinet.
Maybe Stephen Carter, his new right-hand man at Number 10, will help: Mr Carter is reputedly the man to provide the grip and focus that Mr Brown lost when he gave his erstwhile top aides their own cabinet jobs.
In recent days, top U.S. cabinet officers have traveled around the world on high-profile diplomatic missions.
Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, said Mr Tanaka had stepped down due to ill health.
Those people will demand the top jobs in his shadow cabinet in return for their support during the leadership contest.
In a top drawer of a filing cabinet, they found paper targets.
The U.S. and South Korea last week warned that the trip to Pyongyang by Mr. Iijima, a top adviser to the Abe cabinet, may hurt efforts to pressure North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Top U.S. government cabinet officials are in Mexico today to talk to President Felipe Calderon about the escalating drug war that is ripping up parts of Mexico.
The list of organisations was drawn from the information available in the public domain, also including the recently released information relating to top public sector salaries released by the cabinet office.
Below the tablet dock is the same layout as the Arcade Cabinet: a classic arcade-style ball joystick (the red top is really the one piece you have to assemble, unlike the Ikea-esque Cabinet) and four pairs of buttons.
Among the accused are several of Yadav's cronies in the Bihar government, three former cabinet ministers and a host of top-ranking officials.
At the weekend Home Secretary David Blunkett called on former cabinet colleagues not to oppose university top-up fees in order to damage Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The top civil servant, who later served as Cabinet secretary to Margaret Thatcher, said Lady Swann spoke to him about the issue "at considerable length and with much feeling".
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Likened earlier this year by Lord Turnbull, a former cabinet secretary (Britain's top civil servant), to Macavity the cat, who was never to be found at the scene of the crime, the prime minister will find it hard now to evade his own responsibility for what has gone wrong on Mr Darling's brief watch.
The Cabinet Office said the salary bill for top-earners had been cut by 18% in the past year.
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Health care is another top priority, and a natural fit in the Cabinet would be well-respected former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Like all senior judges, they are in effect appointed by the Lord Chancellor, who is the government's senior law officer and sits in the cabinet, after secret consultations among judges and top lawyers.
President Edward Shevardnadze oversaw the resignation of all but three members of Georgia 's cabinet and asked his envoy to Russia to take the top ministerial job.
The fall of the Berlin Wall drew her into politics and Mr Kohl propelled her towards the top, naming her minister for women and youth in his third cabinet.
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Assembly government officials are part of the UK civil service and its top official, Permanent Secretary Dame Gillian Morgan, is accountable to the UK Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.
Dr Mahathir can stack his cabinet with loyalists, who would then be in a strong position to win top party jobs.
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