Sentence examples for minister in practice from inspiring English sources

"The suggestion laid forth today is to appoint the head of the Kadima party, the acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, as the prime minister in practice," the cabinet secretary, Israel Maimon, said.

After Iraq, no prime minister can in practice take Britain to war without the authority of parliament.

It doesn't address a broader governance problem identified by the prime minister: that, in practice, non-executives "are drawn from the same narrow social and professional circles as the executive team and – as we have seen time and time again – the scrutiny they provide is just not good enough".

Theoretically, Parliament also elects the Scottish Ministers who form the government of Scotland and sit in the Scottish cabinet, but such ministers are, in practice, appointed to their roles by the First Minister.

The mission, to be headed by Lloyd Axworthy, Canada's foreign minister, will go "immediately"—in practice, a fortnight or so rather than after the start of the new presidential term on July 28th, as Mr Fujimori had wanted.

Pham Van Dong, Vietnam's second prime minister, often lamented that in practice he had little power.

When pressed, May has tended to repeat the line, but in practice ministers have all but abandoned the notion, largely because there is an acceptance that the short-term impact of a no-deal Brexit on the economy would be disastrous.

The monarch remains constitutionally empowered to exercise the Royal Prerogative against the advice of the prime minister or the cabinet, but in practice would only do so in emergencies or where existing precedent does not adequately apply to the circumstances in question.

Mark Collins, a Baptist minister in Houston, said the practice started about five years ago.

Ministers talk about devolution, but in practice they're imposing Conservative party policies on elected local councils across the board".

In practice, neither ministers nor Parliament have enough information to judge how the thousands of quangos are doing.Is a call for elected quangos auditing or advocacy?