Example collocations logo

Minister in sentence

2254 examples of Minister in a sentence

In his General Assembly speech, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, did not stress the realpolitik that his country often promotes; instead, he mentioned the concept of “win-win” no less than five times.
Macron’s more ambitious idea is to take a big leap toward a eurozone fiscal union, with a common treasury and a single finance minister.
In my view, however, the report, like the proposal to establish a European finance minister, is fundamentally flawed.
When I became Indonesia’s finance minister, I had 64,000 employees.
The new foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is well known and respected by the leaders of all of the countries participating in the negotiations, and he will assume important responsibilities in any talks that take place.
The question is whether the next prime minister will be more closely allied with Putin or the FSB.
For example, for the first time, North Korea’s prime minister publicly apologized for a policy error – the failure of the currency redenomination.
But it seems ages since a Belgian foreign minister (as chairman of the EU Council of Ministers) declared at an ASEAN meeting in Singapore in 1993: There are now only two superpowers left, the US and Europe!
Though Bolsonaro’s justice minister, Sérgio Moro, is a widely admired judge who led the Lava Jato (“Car Wash”) anti-corruption drive, he alone cannot compensate for this level of militarization.
Since assuming his post, Xi has rapidly consolidated all of the main levers of power, elbowing aside his prime minister, the ineffectual Li Keqiang.
While I was foreign minister of the Republic of Korea, my Government and I strongly advocated détente with the North.
Tony Benn, a Labour cabinet minister in the 1970’s, later revealed that the “winter of discontent,” which ushered in a Tory government at the end of the decade, had been caused by the severe cuts in public expenditure demanded by the IMF: “Why did we have the winter of discontent?
Our views are much too liberal for the SNC, and its key backer, Turkey, whose foreign minister has said that jihad in Syria is not related to terrorism.
Indeed, so strident has he become that he refused to accept a message from Japan’s prime minister about his island visit.
Iran's Election SurpriseWASHINGTON D.C.: Iran’s revolution is poised to enter a new phase when, later this summer, former minister of culture Mohammed Khatami (who won a stunning upset on May 23 over the heavily favored speaker of parliament) becomes the country’s fifth president.
For example, do we really want a terrorist group to be capable of accessing a president’s or prime minister’s private information?
Perhaps when Gordon Brown becomes the UK’s next prime minister, he will be able to convince the G7 group of rich countries to lead the charge for change.
Mr. Olechowski is well known in Polish politics, for he was once a minister of finance and later a minister of foreign affairs.
And in Italy, Matteo Salvini, the xenophobic interior minister, has capitalized on the riots to launch a broadside against Macron’s policies.
Former President Hosni Mubarak was put on public trial, together with his two sons and his ex-interior minister, General Habib el-Adly.
Earlier this year, Mexico’s foreign minister renegotiated $400 million of debt on which Cuba had defaulted.
While this would not cross the EU’s 3%-of-GDP ceiling on budget deficits, it is considerably more than the 1.6% that the finance minister informally agreed with the EU over the summer.
On June 18th Viktor Orban, the leader of FIDESZ (the association of young democrats), the surprise winners of last month’s parliamentary elections, will become Hungary’s prime minister; at 34 years of age he is the youngest in the country’s history.
Each time, the minister insisted that it would never happen again.
World leaders signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994 (I was engaged in the process as Australia’s foreign minister), but we dragged our feet in building the nuclear reactors and delivering the heavy fuel oil promised, partly owing to a widespread belief that the regime’s collapse was imminent.
The best present the Macri administration ever received was footage of a former Peronist minister trying to stash millions of dollars and euros in a local convent.
The discomfort she felt when, as a cabinet minister, she tried to broach the subject was real and all too apparent.
As one finance minister told me rather wistfully, when I asked him what had actually been delivered on climate change: “Words,” he said, "just words.”
Berlusconi's vision of democracy--more populist than liberal--is that everything is allowed to those who win, even changing laws to favor the prime minister's special interests.
Meanwhile, his housing minister, Uri Ariel (himself a settler and a member of the annexationist Jewish Home party), unleashes a new wave of settlement expansion that threatens to link the 1967 border with the Jordan Valley, thus bisecting Palestinian territory.
BackNext