Sentence examples for empty ministry from inspiring English sources

Alliance leaders like Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the foreign minister, moved into cavernous, empty ministry buildings.

Shrapnel from the bombing of the empty ministry building, in the crowded Al Rimal neighborhood of western Gaza City, killed one woman, Haniah Abd-el Jawad, 52, and wounded up to 46 others, some of them children, medical officials at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza said.

Apart from battling the endemic problem of patronage, he will discover that he is coming to an empty-pocketed ministry.

The Kalashnikov-wielding men forced the rescuers to return a boat that had been emptied of migrants, the ministry said in a statement.

The capital's new airport works well, but in the city centre new multi-storey government ministries remain empty concrete hulks; parliamentary offices nearby are in port-a-cabins in front of a stinking market.

Further, says Robert Feldman of Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, it should be easier to take steps to guard against an economic slump than to counter the risk of a bond-market crisis.Politicians arguing against a second tax rise will not be left empty-handed should the finance ministry get its way.

"We opened the cupboards at the electricity ministry, and they were empty," he said.

You would think that throwing out all the Ba'athists from various Iraqi ministries would have created many empty seats in government.

But the promise looks empty.Figures leaked to Le Monde suggest the finance ministry has secretly predicted a far worse gap: a 4.1% deficit this year, followed by 4% next.

Hundreds of National Guardsmen in riot gear and armoured vehicles prevented an "empty pots march" from reaching Venezuela's food ministry on Saturday to protest against chronic food shortages.

At 2pm car parks in front of the ministries, usually chock full, were eerily empty.So were the streets, except for those thronging the stadium.