Sentence examples for At ministers from inspiring English sources

Occasionally India's tycoons agree to some political theatre, flying to Delhi to grumble at ministers about economic bottlenecks.

The government did concede additional reviews of investigatory regulations – both a general review at ministers' own initiative to be completed by the election and six-monthly reviews of the bill proposed by Labour.

By ending Whitehall direction, the government would insist that benefit rules and discretions would thenceforth be for local councillors to determine, such that the arrow of blame would not point entirely at ministers but be shared with local electors.

In it, he blows a raspberry at ministers, suggesting the food business was suffering from a dearth of chefs, butchers and vegetable growers and that a neglect of college vocational education would exacerbate this.

He is said to have become irritated at ministers arriving at official functions with their floozies instead of their wives.The president of the lower house, Heng Samrin, a CPP man, argued that the new law would cut Cambodia's rampant corruption, since "if a government official has many wives or mistresses, he will become greedy for the state's money".

As for saving the planet – what we are really trying to save, as we scrabble around planting turbines on mountains and shouting at ministers, is not the planet but our attachment to the western material culture, which we cannot imagine living without.

It would be unusual for a junior minister to be promoted to cabinet rank without a spell at minister of state level but these are unusual times.

At Minister Holst's funeral the Norwegians created the space and energy that gave me hope that humankind could live in peace.

He has yelled at Foreign Ministers and cursed at a President.

At first, ministers denied all knowledge of the wiretap.

But the issue has been raised time and again at weekly ministers' conferences in Harlem.