Sentence examples for ministers call from inspiring English sources

Currently, local councils consider most planning applications, and ministers "call in" particularly contentious ones.

His whole team encouraged talk that Mr Brown would stage a general election, which British prime ministers call more or less at their pleasure.

The move was defeated in the Brighton conference hall, leaving the party without a policy agreed by members if ministers call a vote before March.

At the moment, Swedes are discussing women's quotas for the top levels of corporate management and trying to do something about what ministers call the "pornogrification" of everyday life sexy advertisements, thongs being marketed to teenagers, and so on.

Ministers call it flawed, and Mr Mbeki himself says it does "not address all these matters that we wanted".South Africa urgently needs more skilled workers, perhaps as many as 500,000, says Iraj Abedian, chief economist with Standard Bank.

What is more likely to keep bills down: Labour's breaking up of the big six energy companies that even Tory ministers call an "oligopoly" or as-yet-hazy Conservative pledges of more competition in the market and less regulation?

Prime ministers called him Thor.

One of his own ministers called the idea "disgusting".

I am against prime ministers calling early general elections.

The ministers called Russia's actions "acts of aggression".

Luc Ferry, one of Mr Sarkozy's former ministers, called the right's stance "idiotic".