Lowry resigned from the Cabinet after it was revealed at the Moriarty Tribunal that businessman Ben Dunne had paid for an IR £ 395, 000 extension to Lowry's Tipperary home.

Paul Wegener's The Golem ( 1920 ) and Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( also 1920 ) had a particular impact.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

On 13 March, Goebbels had his reward for his part in bringing the Nazis to power by being appointed Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ( Volksaufklärung und Propaganda ), with a seat in the Cabinet.

" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.

Major's low profile following his exit from parliament was disrupted by Edwina Currie's revelation in September 2002 that, prior to his promotion to the Cabinet, he had had a four-year extramarital affair with her.

Nehru and his colleagues had been released as the British Cabinet Mission arrived to propose plans for transfer of power.

Gresham had a long career as a political appointee in the latter part of the 19th century ; though he lost his only two bids for elective office, he served in three Cabinet positions and was twice a dark horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1889 Wilhelm II reorganised top level control of the navy by creating a Navy Cabinet ( Marine-Kabinett ) equivalent to the German Imperial Military Cabinet which had previously functioned in the same capacity for both the army and navy.

After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.

At the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, analysts — such as Jeffrey Simpson, Donald Savoie, and John Gomery — argued that both parliament and the Cabinet had become eclipsed by prime ministerial power.

Savoie quoted an anonymous minister from the Liberal Party as saying Cabinet had become " a kind of focus group for the Prime Minister ," while Simpson called cabinet a " mini-sounding board ".

By the 1830s the Westminster system of government ( or cabinet government ) had emerged ; the Prime Minister had become " primus inter pares " or the first among equals in the Cabinet and the head of government in the United Kingdom.

By the turn of the 20th century the modern premiership had emerged ; the office had become the pre-eminent position in the constitutional hierarchy vis-a-vis the Sovereign, Parliament and Cabinet.

Third, recognising that the Cabinet had become the executive and must be united, he dominated the other members and demanded their complete support for his policies.

Lord North, for example, who had said the office was " unknown to the constitution ", reversed himself in 1783 when he said, " In this country some one man or some body of men like a Cabinet should govern the whole and direct every measure.

Under their long, consistent leadership, Cabinet government became a convention of the constitution.

Cabinet negotiations continued for a long time.

Fearing for his own position, Macmillan organised a major Cabinet change in July 1962 — also named ' the night of long knives ' as a symbol of his alleged betrayal of the Conservative party.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

He was a Labour Cabinet minister whose long crusade for penal reform attracted much controversy during the later years of his life with his ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the release of Moors murderer Myra Hindley from prison.

Owen maintained his long standing position that he would never join the Conservative Party, although the memoirs of at least three of John Major's cabinet ministers refer to Major being quite keen to appoint Owen to his cabinet, but threats of resignation from within the Cabinet prevented him from doing so.

Musa led Belize to significant growth over his near-decade long term in office, but his popularity declined during his last years in office due to in part to increasing public perception of corruption among his Cabinet and within his party.

However, the Institute for Government has written that the Cabinet Office ( of which the Prime Minister's Office is a component ) " is a long way from becoming a fully fledged premier's department ", primarily based on the fact that the Prime Minister " largely lacks the direct policy responsibilities, either in statute or by convention under the Royal Prerogative, possessed by secretaries of state, who have substantial budgets voted to them by Parliament.

In the following year he began a long association with the Court Theatre ; he appeared there in Aunt Jack, The Cabinet Minister and The Volcano.

He submitted a long paper to the War Cabinet in July, recommending that the Allies hold the line, with only limited offensives, for the second half of 1918, and that their future offensives should have ever greater emphasis on artillery, tanks, aircraft and machine guns.

Jones also served as a V-2 rocket expert on the Cabinet Defence Committee ( Operations ) and headed a German long range weapons targeting deception under the Double Cross System.

The long benches ( the front benches ) closest to the despatch boxes are reserved for the Cabinet on the government's side and the " Shadow Cabinet " on the Opposition's side.

The CWU has long been affiliated with the Labour Party ; for example Alan Johnson, a previous General Secretary, later became a Labour Member of Parliament ultimately holding a number of Cabinet posts including Home Secretary.

Barnes had a long and active retirement, continuing to support the International Labour Organization, serving as chairman of the Co-operative Printing Society, and publishing several books, including his autobiography, From Workshop to War Cabinet ( 1923 ), and a History of the International Labour Office ( 1926 ).

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne offered Laws a seat in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, but was rebuffed, with Laws saying " I am not a Tory, and if I merely wanted a fast track to a top job, I would have acted on this instinct a long time ago.

In November 1988, after a long period of bitter dispute, Prebble was fired from Cabinet, and Douglas was forced to resign.

However, the Cabinet War Rooms were vulnerable to a direct hit and were abandoned not long after the war.

During his Cabinet post he served a long side fellow Liberal MP, Allan Rock.

Following Nixon's election, Finch was given his choice in the new Cabinet, and he selected Secretary of HEW because of his long interest in health and education issues.

The museum has been on the top 100 Dutch heritage sites list since 1990 and was nominated 12 December 2011 by the Dutch Cabinet for UNESCO world heritage status, based on its long history as a public knowledge institute and its continued efforts to preserve public access to its collections.

Since the end of the American occupation of Japan, the position has been one of the most powerful in the Cabinet, as Japan's economic interests have long relied on external relations.

In 1860, the feeling in the Confederate States was that there would be no war at all, and that the Great Powers of Europe would lift any blockade of southern ports, the only member of the Confederate Cabinet who anticipated a serious conflict was Judah P. Benjamin who, as Secretary Leroy Walker recalled after the war, suggested that "... the government purchase as much cotton as it could hold, at least 100, 000 bales, and ship it at once to England .… For, said Benjamin, we are entering on a contest that must be long and costly.

In a letter to Haig, Robertson called Lloyd George " an awful liar " who lacked the " honesty and truth " to be Prime Minister, claiming he had misled the Cabinet in his claim that the French had originated the proposal.

Further when a party is divided into factions a Prime Minister may be forced to include other powerful party members in the Cabinet for party political cohesion.