How to Use ministerial in a Sentence

ministerial

adjective
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  • They function in a ministerial capacity in the embassy.
  • His remarks came in the midst of a week-long ministerial meeting that sets the WHO agenda for the year.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • The sisters are still awaiting the results of a ministerial review of their case.
    — Maggie Freleng, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Then came Rishi Sunak, one of whose most recent acts has been to sack his party chairman for breaking the ministerial code.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
  • One floor up, a study is complete with the traditional ministerial red boxes that are still used by the monarch.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The Knesset would then have three weeks to present a prime ministerial candidate.
    — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 15 May 2021
  • Even small acts of ministerial competence can go a long way in a crisis.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • The last time a leader’s visit took place was in March 2017, and ministerial-level visits were few and far between.
    — James Laurenceson, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • He was first elected to Finland's parliament in 2007 as a member of the NCP and later served in a number of ministerial roles.
    — David Faris, The Week, 5 Apr. 2023
  • South Africa has one of the world’s largest ministerial cabinets, with 28 ministers and 34 deputies.
    — Sarah Wild, Quartz Africa, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Plauché will receive the honorary distinction, one of the four ministerial orders of the French Republic, at a gala event held on Sept. 13 in Chicago.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
  • He was later cleared of breaching the ministerial code.
    — Tara John, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Philp moved to a ministerial post in the Cabinet Office.
    — Alex Morales, Kitty Donaldson, Emily Ashton, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • So far, over 10 people, including the son of a ministerial colleague of Modi’s, have been arrested in the case.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The next ministerial conference was scheduled to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, this week and debate on this again.
    — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Blue and White had won thirty-three seats; Gantz would now lead a faction of seventeen members, almost all of whom would be promised ministerial posts, and keep the party’s name.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The Kremlin said Putin ordered a ministerial delegation to the area to help support the families of the victims.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The United Kingdom does not set out a prime ministerial chain of succession.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2020
  • In subsequent years, Douri served in a series of ministerial posts.
    — Philip Terzian, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Tomegah-Dogbe chose a government in which women hold 30% of ministerial positions, a record for the country.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The Saudis and Russians celebrated with a ministerial barbecue in Riyadh that was meant to put their price war of last spring firmly into the past.
    — Daniel Yergin, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Deri allies have been signaling this week that the Shas party leader would not resign his ministerial post even if the court ruling went against him.
    — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • While juggling ministerial duties, Tang spent hours each week working on the book, contributing ideas and building the website.
    — Will Henshall, TIME, 20 May 2024
  • The ministerial team will convene tomorrow at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, the statement added.
    — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The prime minister acted after a standards probe found Zahawi had breached the ministerial code of conduct.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The Sinn Fein surge left prime ministerial frontrunner Micheal Martin with a dilemma over whether to bring the party into government.
    — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • With women serving in nine of 33 ministerial posts, the United Arab Emirates has the highest ratio of female cabinet members in the Gulf.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The panel won’t decide on next year’s supply, which will be finalized at the larger ministerial meetings on Nov. 30-Dec. 1.
    — Grant Smith, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • These MPs have built careers on taking hard-line views and no longer need to be loyal to the leader because their ministerial ambitions have been fulfilled, or faded away.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Castro has asserted that the work her company performs is purely ministerial.
    — Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024

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