Sentence examples for ministers built from inspiring English sources

Thus, the power of patronage, which had been exercised for generations in provincial noble households, began to lose its political significance as the king's ministers built up their own alternative administrative clienteles.

Giving up all claims to income, churches, professorships, and ministers' homes provided by the established church, the new church set up voluntary funds that supported ministers, built new churches, homes, and schools, and provided for missionary work.

Previous prime ministers built more than Netanyahu in East Jerusalem, but they were careful to tie it in with positive developments in the peace process to avoid American anger.

In a forensic account of the way Blair and his ministers built the case for military action, Chilcot found that Blair disregarded warnings about the potential consequences of military action and relied too heavily on his own beliefs, rather than the more nuanced judgments of the intelligence services.

One Midwestern traveling minister built a tiny church atop his car.

Yousaf Raza Gilani, a former prime minister, built his political popularity on his status as a makhdoom, the guardian of one of Multan's many ornate, centuries-old Sufi shrines.

Wallace Nutting, who learned stage presence as a Congregationalist minister, built a splendid collection of Colonial furniture a century ago, took pictures of it and made reproductions to sell in department stores across the country.

In 2002, Nicolas Sarkozy, then the French interior minister, built on his reputation as a tough-guy politician by ordering closure of a Red Cross camp for migrants near here at Sangatte.

Mr. Peres said he was not surprised that Mr. Sharon, who as a government minister built a large number of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, was now ready to hand many of them over to the Palestinians.

In a later part of the speech, the prime minister built on a joke made by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, who on Tuesday embarked on a convoluted rugby metaphor to describe his political beliefs: Boris, the tight head prop.

By the same token, the government of Mahathir Mohamad, the previous prime minister, built up a coterie of Malay tycoons through lucrative concessions, only to see many of them go spectacularly bust during the Asian crisis.No wonder, then, that disenchantment with affirmative action has grown among Malaysians of all stripes.