Sentence examples for leading minister from inspiring English sources

"It's been incredible," Nikos Pappas, a leading minister and Tsipras' closest aide, told the Guardian.

But one leading minister, asked for an assessment following the attempted coup, says simply: "We are fucked.

He played an active part in the downfall of Bavaria's leading minister, Maximilian Montgelas (1817), whom he blamed for these anti-ecclesiastical policies.

A leading minister from 1742 to 1744, Carteret directed England's involvement against France in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740 48).

It is therefore not surprising that the first glimpse of Seleucid rule in Palestine tells of an attempt by Heliodorus, the leading minister of Seleucus IV (Philopator; 187 175 bce), to deprive the Second Temple in Jerusalem of its treasure.

Japan's recovery is being held back by a shortage of skilled labour, a leading minister has claimed, after the world's third-largest economy entered its fourth technical recession in five years.

Most leading ministers kept their jobs.

With the re-emergence of Blair-like statements from leading ministers, our ratings have sunk catastrophically.

One of his leading ministers, Yulia Timoshenko, trod on some sensitive toes by trying to reform the energy industry.

Unlike previous leading ministers, he did not accept elevation to the House of Lords, instead remaining a member of the House of Commons.

Aside from the sultan, the leading ministers of state might also contribute toward the upkeep of poets.