Sentence examples for competent minister from inspiring English sources

CCM had nominated a competent minister of works, John Pombe Magufuli, as its presidential candidate.

He was viewed as having been a competent minister — first of tourism, then of social services — among other roles, and few doubt his intelligence.

As a superbly competent minister who, when energy secretary in the mid-70s, faced down the oil companies, obtaining for the UK a much fairer share of North Sea oil revenues than that bequeathed by the Heath government.

He has been a careful and competent minister: he started out at the Welsh Office in 1997, moving through the Foreign Office and the DTI before taking on the work and pensions and Wales briefs under Brown.

A competent minister will be comfortable helping you decide on vows, music and location for wedding.

"We have seen new competent ministers coming in, and it has had an impact".

Mr Cowen, in addition to his legendary political rough edges, is also regarded as one of Ireland's sharpest political brains and one of its most competent ministers.

Whatever confidence he has inspired on policy matters derives from his pledges to leave the heavy lifting to his cabinet, which is staffed with several competent ministers.

A grotesque situation resulted: in the midst of a desperate struggle for national survival, competent ministers and officials were dismissed and replaced by worthless nominees of Rasputin.

He is a poor manager, prone to rash promises; his constantly shuffling government has included some competent ministers, but they have often been dumped after a few months in favour of political cronies.

He clearly defined his government's priorities (health care, education, and infrastructure development); devoted significant financial resources to these priority areas; and appointed capable, competent ministers to head these departments.