Sentence examples for ministers defense from inspiring English sources

Three days after Parliament voted to dismiss the defense and interior ministers, Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak announced his resignation in a hastily called news conference at his ministry, despite an announcement by President Hamid Karzai that he would stay on in his post until a replacement was found.

Mr. Olmert and his two top cabinet ministers, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, were reported to disagree about the best way to win the war and consolidate Israeli gains.

He has no close allies in the Cabinet, in which the two senior ministers, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, are members of the moderate Labor Party.

prime minister, foreign minister, and defense minister of Malaysia from 1970 to 1976.

Mr. Essebsi served him as an adviser, interior minister, defense minister and ambassador to Paris.

For the Soviet spymaster, the prime minister, defense minister and the other paunchy, half-naked co-conspirators, the stakes could not have been higher.

He did make Antonio Martino, a Hayekian, a cabinet minister (defense, curiously enough).

Flush with petrodollars, Brunei's sultan, who also serves as the country's prime minister, defense minister and finance minister, has followed a policy of industrialization coupled with aggressive investment in projects worldwide.

It also has no foreign minister or defense minister.

The foreign minister and defense minister, also Tajiks, also hang Shah Massoud's picture.

"I was appointed not to be self-defense minister but defense minister," he said, as he tried to finesse the crisis.