Sentence examples for holidays ministers from inspiring English sources

Air passenger duty should be suspended during the summer to cut the cost of family holidays, ministers were told, as the education secretary, Michael Gove, insisted parents should not take their children out of school during term time.

Before going on holiday, ministers agreed that the time legal immigrants must wait before seeking citizenship should be halved to five years.For Mr Berlusconi and some of his allies particularly in the xenophobic Northern League that is not enough.

Polly Toynbee, in her perceptive article last week about the frustration in the public services with Labour's agenda, seemed to suggest that somehow a good summer holiday for ministers was all that was needed to get things back on track.

Asked if the trip was a "jolly", he said it was no "holiday" and ministers had to travel to "sell Wales".

"But the holiday-loving minister denies all knowledge of what his officials were up to, trotting out excuses reminiscent of TS Eliot's notorious cat: 'At whatever time the deed took place - Macavity wasn't there!'... Whether any of this can save Mr Hoon's skin remains to be seen.

The Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, seized on the holidays by accusing ministers of failing to provide leadership.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin has scrapped New Year holidays for government ministers because of the unfolding economic crisis.

Australia reveres its fallen warriors at Gallipoli nearly 100 years ago with monuments and public holidays, and prime ministers attend funerals of each digger killed in Afghanistan.

Or as a minister, holidays are usually the time when my work is the busiest -- seeing family who live out of state is almost impossible.

Reluctantly granted a holiday in January, his ministers can expect little sleep for the rest of the year.

Only after much hesitation did his cabinet declare March 17th, the day chosen for the anniversary, a public holiday (the League's ministers voted against).