cabinet post

collocation in English

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cabinet
noun
uk
/ˈkæb.ɪ.nət/us
/ˈkæb.ən.ət/
a small group of the most important people in government, who advise the President or Prime Minister and make ...
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post
noun
uk
/pəʊst/us
/poʊst/
mainly UK
letters, etc. that are delivered to homes or places ...
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(Definition ofcabinetandpostfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One minority party did not accept his offer of acabinetpost.
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He later served in the samecabinetpostfrom 1887 to 1894.
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As a result, the party lost its onlycabinetpostin the ensuing cabinet shuffle.
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His appointment was rejected and thecabinetpostis currently vacant.
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Despite his long political career, he never held acabinetpost.
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It's not thecabinetpost.
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Dunford ran for his third term in 2001 increasing his plurality slightly taking 48% of the popular vote and kept hiscabinetpost.
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He was named provincial secretary in 1863, acabinetpost; as a result, he had to run again (successfully) for his seat in the legislative council.
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Byers resigned hiscabinetpostin 1979.
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Most of the research described above involves simple counting of individuals and cabinet posts.
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They were allocated four cabinet posts, of which one would be a senior one such as finance, foreign affairs or justice, and four deputy positions.
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Although cabinets frequently fell and re-formed, there existed a remarkable stability in the personnel who occupied key cabinet posts.
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Workable assemblies are willing to bargain with presidents who build coalitions with cabinet posts, policy concessions, and use of agenda-setting powers.
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Even mild criticism from a backbencher could carry consequences serious enough (in particular, removal from consideration for acabinetpost) to effectively muzzle a legislator with any serious political ambitions.
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The 1999 elections brought even more women into both parliament and cabinet posts.
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As president, he de-activated the party organisation, chose non-party members for key cabinet posts and encouraged the nomination of outsider candidates for public office (pp. 241-48).
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Kennedy resigned hiscabinetpostin 1913 because he was opposed to the operation of automobiles on public roads, which was supported by the government of the time.
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It involved negotiations about which coalition partners would form a common programme of policy and it involved the division of the cabinet posts.
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Between 1885 and 1945, generals and admirals held 15 of the 30 premierships, and 115 of the 404 civilian cabinet posts.
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