Sentence examples for ministerial rival from inspiring English sources

So inducting him into the BJP cabinet might well be a shrewd move to defang a potential prime ministerial rival, at least for now.

Ministerial hopefuls blame rivals among Mr Sisi's advisers for his questionable result.

He has both a sharp brain (he once led Tony Blair's policy team) and, in the vague and ineffable way that often counts for a lot, a prime ministerial air that his rivals lack.Without many noticing it, though, he is in danger of being usurped by his younger brother.

Combined with his prognostications of doom, the effect is to defend his shabby chancellorship from critics, rivals and possible ministerial bloodletting.The furore over Mr Darling's comments—he also acknowledged that voters were "pissed off" with the unpersuasive government overshadowed the little fillips for homebuyers and –owners announced on September 2nd (see article).

Mr Laws, by contrast, is a conspicuously numerate former banker.Thus the appointment exemplifies some familiar syndromes of government: the need, sometimes, to rely on untried youth; the need to barter ministerial posts for the support of rival internal constituencies.

With Ms. Livni cast by some opponents as heartless, Mr. Barak, a rival for the prime ministerial post, was accused of exploiting the issue by saying two days later that he was willing to take responsibility for the soldier.

Politburo members loyal to a former army general, Solomon Mujuru, accused Mr. Mugabe of planning to give most of the choice ministerial appointments to allies of a rival, Emerson Mnangagwa, who led the bloody campaign to intimidate the opposition after Mr. Tsvangirai outpolled Mr. Mugabe in March in the first round of elections.

China Mobile, for example, is the world's largest mobile operator, but its competition is limited, by ministerial decree, to just a few other domestic rivals.

He avoided direct comments on his arch rival, Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and the leader of the new anti-corruption party, Arvind Kejriwal, whose Aam Aadmi Party made a spectacular debut in the polls in Delhi and now rules the capital with the minority support of Mr Gandhi's party.

Masouma Mubarak, a dean at Kuwait University, who had faced stiff Islamist opposition when holding ministerial rank in three cabinets, easily outpolled all rival candidates in her district.

Whether it's the deputy prime minister threatening to put down Johnny Depp's dogs, a prime-ministerial body count that rivals Game of Thrones or stealing political slogans from fictional TV shows such as Veep, politics in Australia can seem weird from afar.