Sentence examples for incoming ministers from inspiring English sources

The incoming ministers were less amenable to the expansive priorities of the old regime.

As part of the preparation for devolution, media training sessions were held for bureaucrats and incoming ministers.

"If we win the election and form the next government, incoming ministers will inherit the ministerial salaries that the government is setting today, including the MP element," she said.

In Whitehall, where you don't get promoted for philosophising, the permanent secretaries' line is that once the Tory leadership is in place, there will be a reshuffle and incoming ministers will (suitably advised by civil servants) choose a direction; the machine will then deliver what they ask.

The growing awareness of the extent to which the UK government and its agencies had become complicit in the mistreatment of terrorism suspects by the US authorities and allies in the "war on terror" was the cause of deep discomfort for incoming ministers when the coalition government was formed in 2010.

It maintained: "Incoming ministers, including the prime minister, as a result would be less well briefed at a critical time for any government".

The incoming minister of housing, Abbas Akhondi, held the same position during Mr. Rafsanjani's tenure, from 1989 to 1997.

His Licensed To Live (1988) was issued by the incoming minister Neil Hamilton to all members of the deregulation task force.

Peter Walker, the incoming minister of agriculture in 1979, bowed to public pressure and called a moratorium on gassing.

And in principle, everybody agrees that the civil service is overmanned; no incoming minister would dare to stuff his or her department with large numbers of protégés.

The subsequent, solemn, repetition of oaths by each successive incoming minister and junior minister they pledged not to betray confidences, to respect sovereignty of India and more did begin to pall by the second hour.