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单词 shadow ministry
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shadow ministry
b. Designating members of an opposition party nominated as counterparts of members of the government in power holding cabinet or other offices, or the offices held, as shadow cabinet, shadow minister, shadow ministry, etc.
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1906 A. J. Balfour Let. in Ld. Newton Ld. Lansdowne (1929) 354 If we are to have, as you suggest, a Committee consisting of members selected from the Front Bench in both Houses,..what we should really have would be a shadow Cabinet once a week.
1925 J. O'Connor Hist. Ireland 1798–1924 II. xxiii. 302 The Dail might go on to the crack of doom passing secret resolutions, appointing shadow ministers, [etc.].
1926 Earl of Oxford in Daily News 2 June 7/1 The ‘Shadow’ Cabinet is the substitute when the leaders of a Party are in opposition for the actual Cabinet when they are in office, and it has always been understood that membership of it involves similar obligations.
1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. iv. § 1 The politician who was weighted with the cares of not being in office, and having only a shadow cabinet to mind.
1953 Earl Winterton Orders of Day p. xi I was in Mr. Churchill's ‘Shadow Cabinet’ from 1945 to 1950.
1958 Spectator 20 June 799/2 The Chancellors and Shadow-Chancellors.
1965 New Statesman 19 Mar. 436/2 Mr Ernest Marples, ‘Shadow’ Minister of Technology, will start work today at the English Electric Leo-Marconi works at Kidsgrove, Staffs.
1970 C. Hampton Philanthropist ii. 18 The Shadow Minister of Health..was hit in the ankle by a ricochet.
1973 Ottawa Jrnl. 21 Feb. 29/2 Opposition Leader Stanfield and his shadow cabinet have been using it to try and discredit Liberal economic policies in advance of the budget.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. vii. 150 As shadow chancellor, I had..made some strong comments on some of the projects.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. viii. 158 The Conservative leader..also nominates the members of the so-called Shadow Cabinet and allocates the shadow ‘portfolios’.
1977 M. Walker National Front iii. 57 The Shadow Home Secretary..supported the motion.
1980 Austral. Financial Rev. 11 Apr. 15/2 Labor's energy policy for the next Federal election, which was unveiled..by the Leader of the Opposition.. and the Shadow Minister for Minerals and Energy.
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