It is also used to refer to political situations where one leader replaces another, only to be rapidly replaced in turn due to the instability of the governing system ( see cabinet shuffle ).

Following a 1996 cabinet shuffle, she relinquished the Environment portfolio and became Minister of Canadian Heritage.

Both Cordiano and Takhar were retained in their portfolios following a cabinet shuffle on June 29, 2005.

In the same cabinet shuffle, Premier McGuinty withdrew from the Intergovernmental Affairs portfolio and became the province's first Minister of Research and Innovation.

On July 20, 2004, Brison was named to cabinet as Minister of Public Works in Martin's post-election shuffle.

On July 18 2011, Joaquín Lavín was replaced as Chilean Minister of Education by Felipe Bulnes, as President Sebastián Piñera opted for a cabinet shuffle in response to the months of student protest.

Following a cabinet shuffle on February 3, 1993, Hampton was demoted to Minister of Natural Resources, responsible for Native Affairs.

In the ensuing cabinet shuffle, Yu was returned to the presidential office as secretary-general and succeeded as premier by Frank Hsieh.

* January 25-Jean Chrétien launches a major cabinet shuffle.

In the cabinet shuffle of 1999, Chrétien appointed Anderson Environment Minister.

Axworthy's true interest was in international relations, and in a 1996 cabinet shuffle, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, where he excelled, becoming a strong advocate of Canada's tradition of multilateralism.

Miller became Minister of Natural Resources following a cabinet shuffle on February 3, 1977.

After a cabinet shuffle on January 15, 2002, Caplan was appointed Minister of National Revenue.

Following a cabinet shuffle on August 2, 1989, she was named Minister of Energy and Minister of Natural Resources.

With the cabinet shuffle that followed the 2004 election, she became Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

Volpe was not promoted to cabinet in the August 1999 cabinet shuffle.

On January 4, 2007, Baird was appointed as Environment Minister in a cabinet shuffle, replacing previous Minister Rona Ambrose.

Following a cabinet shuffle in August 1989, he became Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations.

After a cabinet shuffle on June 29, 2005, Finance Minister Sorbara was also named as the Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet.

After a cabinet shuffle on June 29, 2005, he was named as Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities.

In the parliamentary system a cabinet reshuffle or shuffle is an informal term for an event that occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet.

As a result, the party lost its only cabinet post in the ensuing cabinet shuffle.

From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.

But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

The cabinet was divided on the issue.

Therefore, on 13 September the cabinet dismissed Count Detlev von Einsiedel, followed by Bernhard von Lindenau.

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This check on executive power can be employed through binding legislation, public debates on government policy, investigations, and direct questioning of the chancellor or cabinet officials.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

Attlee supported Churchill in his continuation of Britain's resistance after the French capitulation in 1940, and proved a loyal ally to Churchill throughout the conflict ; when the war cabinet had voted on whether to negotiate peace terms, Attlee ( along with fellow Labour minister Arthur Greenwood ) voted in favour of fighting, giving Churchill the majority he needed to continue the war.

The younger Kabila continued with his father's Transitional Parliament, but overhauled his entire cabinet, replacing it with a group of technocrats, with the stated aim of putting the country back on the track of development, and coming to a decisive end of the Second Congo War.

Hsieh and his cabinet resigned en masse on January 24 to make way for Su and his new cabinet.

He channelled his medieval interests into a peculiar secret hobby: In a filing cabinet he maintained a collection of imaginary buildings, most of them described as being made out of some kind of metal, which he drew on little cards.

In January 1962, the cabinet finally approved the text of the new constitution, promulgated by President Ayub Khan on March 1, 1962 and finally came into effect on June 8, 1962.

" Al-Obeikan, however, was subsequently removed from his position as advisor to the royal cabinet in May 2012 after opposing moves to relax gender segregation, and in August of 2012, Obeikan ’ s morning radio show “ Fatwas on Air ,” in which he would issue daily fatwas, was canceled after a royal decree that authorizes only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas.

Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for striking his friend and fellow dwarf, Trippetta, he dresses them as orangutans for a masquerade.

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

Finally, on 27 November the conservatives tried to hold onto power with the appointment of a purely conservative cabinet, led by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud.

The moderate left aimed to put political pressure on the non-socialists to include a large number of Social Democratic members in the new cabinet.

This coup resulted in demonstrations in various parts of the island which eventually led to Bishop being freed from arrest briefly, before being recaptured by the army and executed along with seven others, including members of the cabinet on 19 October 1983.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.