Sentence examples for great offices from inspiring English sources

That's when the great offices of state were decided.

None of the great offices of state chancellor, foreign secretary or home secretary was affected.

A Tory with a Muslim background holding one of the great offices of state?

The defence that "great offices of state" is itself an archaic construct was old-fashioned spin.

The Lib Dems will have five people in the cabinet, but the great offices of state remain firmly Tory.

Which brings us back to the holders of those two great offices of state and the luck of the devil.

He has held most of the great offices of state, and knows the byways and absurdities of government.

There was a time when the post of foreign secretary was considered one of the great offices of state.

Now Cameron seems to have appointed a woman to one of the so-called great offices of state.

"My view is that, to be honest, it's a bit old-fashioned to talk about great offices of state.

I honestly don't… how?" By serving as his shadow home secretary, one of the great offices of state.