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This was not received well by the King's ministers, and Necker, hoping to bolster his position, argued to be made a minister.
The King's ministers could not convince legislators to pass the budget, and the King was unwilling to make concessions.
* It sought, and got the King's acceptance, to have an Irish minister, to the complete exclusion of British ministers, formally advising the king by in the exercise of his powers and functions as King in the Irish Free State.
His refusal threatened to damage British attempts to gain influence in Persia, but Edward resented his ministers ' attempts to reduce the King's traditional powers.
The King's council, an informal group of ministers that advised Louis XVIII, was dissolved and replaced by a tighter knit privy council, the " Ministère de Roi ".
Article 88 of the Belgian Constitution provides that " the King's person is inviolable, his ministers are responsible ".
Some introduced a bill demanding that the King's ministers should have the backing of the Chambers.
This means that the King cannot act in a public capacity without ministerial approval: externally the governmental policy is always represented by the responsible minister who, should he feel that the King's personal influence in it threatens to become too predominant, has to resign if he cannot prevent it ; what happens internally between King and ministers is the Crown Secret, never to be divulged.
The defeat heightened dissension and escalated political antagonism to the King's ministers.
During the reign of the Stuarts, impeachment was revived ; Parliament used it as a tool against the King's ministers during a time when it felt it needed to resist the tyranny of the Crown.
Other alumni of King's College have included prime ministers, archbishops, presidents and the novelist E. M. Forster.
In office, McNeill clashed with the King's Private Secretary when he insisted on following the constitutional advice of his Irish ministers, rather than the Palace, in procedures relating to the receipt of Letters of Credence accrediting ambassadors to the King in Ireland.
However McNeill's tact was not reciprocated by de Valera's government, some of whose ministers sought to humiliate McNeill as the King's representative, by withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at functions he attended, demanded he withdraw invitations to visitors to meet him and in one notorious incident, two ministers, Seán T. O ' Kelly and Frank Aiken publicly stormed out of a diplomatic function when McNeill, there as the guest of the French ambassador, arrived.
By modern convention, the sovereign could only act with the advice and counsel of ministers drawn from, or approved by, the King's various parliaments.
At this time, the Cardinal was attempting to regain the Queen's favour in order to become one of the King's ministers.
As one of the King's ministers, the Lord Chancellor attended the Curia Regis, or Royal Court.
The Council executed the King's will and ruled in the cases outside the ministers competence and prepared projects for the Council of State.
Philip's ministers reacted with their own typical methods: they banished all non-French bankers from France and forbade the export of bullion from the King's territories, without exception.
King's grievance with the Governor General gained momentum when Meighen refused to swear in his cabinet, and instead appointed " acting ministers ", pending a delayed vote of confidence.
Cotton is named on a stone in King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts, which also names early First Church ministers John Davenport ( d. 1670 ), John Oxenbridge ( d. 1674 ) and Thomas Bridge ( d. 1713 ).
It meant that Members of Parliament were free to oppose the Sovereign's ministers without being seen to be disloyal to the Crown itself, thus eliminating the major deterrent to the development of opposing parties which was the idea that there could only be one " King's Party " and that to oppose it would be disloyal or even treasonous.
The Queen's ( King's ) Messengers were members of the Royal household detailed with the task of carrying despatches on behalf of the Monarch and her / his ministers.
Lapointe served as King's Quebec lieutenant and was one of the most important ministers in Cabinet.

King's and like
The first four, like the King's Chamber, have flat roofs formed by the floor of the chamber above, but the final chamber has a pointed roof.
Members of Parliament then explained in August 1689 that “ the Commons had a particular regard … when that Declaration was first made ” to punishments like the one that had been inflicted by the King's Bench against Titus Oates.
The book, like other Sierra books by Peter Spear such as The King's Quest Companion, was revised and edited so that there was a second edition ( 1991 ) covering Larry V.
The 1946 novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren described a lobotomy, saying it " would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.
Horse-racing historian Michael Tanner, in a 2011 television interview at Epsom, pointed out that as Emily Davison was standing on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner, amidst heaving crowds, and with no racetrack commentary like there is today, it would in fact have been impossible for her to have any idea whether the King's horse Anmer had in fact already gone past or not when she stepped out onto the racecourse to make her protest ; and that at the speeds the horses were going it would not have been practicable for her to identify any particular horse anyway even if she'd meant to.
King's X are greatly influenced by softer mainstream rock and, in fact, contributed to the growth of grunge, influencing bands like Pearl Jam, whose bassist Jeff Ament once said, " King's X invented grunge.
In King's Meadow, the hill at the far south of the site, is a small megalith circle which, like Stonehenge, is coordinated with the summer solstice, and since 1990 represents a Stone circle.
Barry's rapping gave way to much more singing on tracks like " Price Of The King's Ticket ".
He is also a leading character in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père and its subsequent film adaptations, portrayed as a main antagonist, and a powerful ruler, even more powerful than the King himself, though events like the Day of the Dupes show that in fact he very much depended on the King's confidence to keep this power.
The town remains a commercial center for rural communities like Clagettsville, Browningsville, Cedar Grove, Woodfield, King's Valley, Purdum, and Lewisdale, although it is more developed today.
He was modelled on Dickens's father, John Dickens, who like Micawber was incarcerated in debtors ' prison ( the King's Bench Prison ) after failing to meet his creditors ' demands.
Traditionally, Parliament had voted at the beginning of a King's reign on the amount allowed for a King's Tonnage and Poundage, the customs duties ( taxes on imported goods like wool and wine ) that made up a large portion of a king's annual income.
Although Richmond was made Lord-Lieutenant, the King's counsellors feared that creating a separate Kingdom of Ireland, with a ruler other than that of England, would create another threat like the King of Scotland.
Thomas Walsingham recorded how the King's men " fell like leaves in Autumn, every one struck a mortal man ".
King's work, but distinguished by his guitar's unique tone coming from a modified, hollow body traditional acoustic guitar, which sounded like the more modern solid body guitars.
He needed to advertise his power and impress his followers ; like his predecessor, he had to represent the King's honour.
In 1999, five years and two albums into the future, frontman Doug Pinnick reflected, " For me personally, the Dogman record is what King's X really sounds like.
Samuel Pepys saw the King's Company act it on 6 Dec. 1660, and again in 1661 and 1667 ( though he didn't like it on any occasion ).
One of these riddle canons, " in augmentationem " ( i. e. augmentation, the length of the notes gets longer ), is inscribed " Notulis crescentibus crescat Fortuna Regis " ( may the fortunes of the king increase like the length of the notes ), while a modulating canon which ends a tone higher than it starts is inscribed " Ascendenteque Modulatione ascendat Gloria Regis " ( as the modulation rises, so may the King's glory ).
* Manuals containing information and hints vital to the completion of the game, like answers to riddles ( Conquests of Camelot, King's Quest 6 ), recipes of spells ( King's Quest 3 ), keys to deciphering non-Latin writing systems ( Ultima series, see also Ultima writing systems ), maze guides ( Manhunter ), dialogue spoken by other characters in the game ( Wasteland, Dragon Wars ), excerpts of the storyline ( most Advanced Dungeons and Dragons games and Wing Commander I ), or a radio frequency to use to communicate with a character to further a game ( Metal Gear Solid ).
Elements of her backstory in KQ2 are a combination of Rapunzel and according to the King's Quest Companion she is the daughter of a miller ( much like the queen in Rumplestiltskin ).

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