Sentence examples for busy ministers from inspiring English sources

For busy ministers, that is an annoying burden.

The only break before August for these busy ministers will be a long-scheduled trip for the prime minister and perhaps the foreign secretary to Hong Kong on June 30th, to hand the colony over to the Chinese.

Brown has created 70-plus, but also culled: functions change or are brought back in-house, the latter a risk because busy ministers often have less time than quango experts.

When the new National Lottery Board was criticised in 1996 for handing out grants to charities in the fields of prostitution, deportation and gay issues, she wrote a stout defence in the Times, declaring: "The last thing the sector needs is busy ministers deciding which charities get grants.

"He was a very busy minister," said Geoffrey K. Fleming, the director of the Southold Historical Society, discussing the Rev. Loren A. Rowley (1858-1918), a Baptist minister and sometime photographer whose work is on display at the Society through Oct. 9.

"They are busy appointing ministers and with corruption.

As the G8 conference starts in France, the Chinese government has itself been busy entertaining ministers from some of the world's pariah states, at a series of meetings where human rights, or the opinion of the Western democracies, were not high on the agenda.

The five bills mean that the home secretary, Theresa May, will be one of the busiest cabinet ministers in parliament.

I was genuinely worried that a busy Prime Minister would be fuming that I had stood him up.

We go through the motions, but it all gets sucked into the European vortex," admits one notionally busy cabinet minister.

But quite how one busy cabinet minister is expected to make a proper judgment on so many sensitive and detailed cases is hard to fathom.