In the interview, Mr. Kostunica said that some members of the 18-party coalition that supported his presidential candidacy were making policy statements that had not been cleared with him and were using extra-legal procedures to take control of certain ministries and companies that have been run by those close to Mr. Milosevic.
Shah says that certain ministries of the Haitian government is functional, but in places, it has "suffered greatly".
There is also the system of internal secondment, which allows some judges to work as consultants for large fees in certain ministries at the same time as they are judging cases, fundamentally undermining the principle of judicial neutrality.
In 1972 Pope Paul VI issued the apostolic letter Ministeria quaedam ("Certain Ministries"), which abolished the major order of subdeacon and all minor orders and created the lay liturgical ministries of lector and acolyte.
It fell "far short of our expectations", the party said, and resolved none of the outstanding issues, such as its demand for certain key ministries, including home affairs (which controls the police), and a definition of the president's and prime minister's relative powers.
But in certain cases, the ministry and TOKI are able to declare urgent expropriation of an at-risk urban area and essentially do as they please.
When a magazine published intelligence files from the defence ministry linking certain generals to drugs-traffickers, the defence minister did not sack the generals; he court-martialled the lower-ranking officers believed to have leaked the files.
Like U.S. regulators, China's agriculture ministry allows certain non-protein nitrogen (NPN) additives, such as biuret and urea, in ruminant feed.
Frank's appealing alertness brings with it a certain self-consciousness about his "ministry without responsibility".
Of one thing Mr. Ahmadi, the ministry spokesman, feels certain: "If the Taliban wants to close a school in this country, they can do it," he said.
