Sentence examples for ministers escape from inspiring English sources

By sub-contracting major policy decisions to unelected quangos, ministers escape being accountable.

Henry Chipembere, one of these ministers, escaped from house arrest and defied attempts at recapture, becoming the focus for antigovernment opinion until his death in 1975.

So ministers escaped censure despite the fact that the exam boards had been given to understand that the highest grades must be lowered to prevent the appearance of grade inflation – a clear instance of political interference in the examination process.

The minister escaped, and so did his would-be assassins.

"These occasions, when the Prime Minister escapes from his speech-writers, are hazardous.

"The minister escaped death, but his arm was broken," Zawahiri writes in his memoir.

The minister escaped injury, but at least one person was killed and more than 20 civilian bystanders were injured, according to state news reports.

Naoto Kan, the colourless but generally harmless prime minister, escaped an opposition no-confidence motion aimed at toppling his government – but only after making a vague offer to step down once the crisis abates.

Even the powerful Tajiks are not safe: in April, Mohammed Fahim, the defence minister, escaped an assassination attempt in Jalalabad.Mr Karzai has tried to coax powerful local commanders into supporting the central authority by offering them government jobs in Kabul.

But neither the contradictions nor the risks inherent in the lip service the party's candidates paid to the agenda of a wildly popular prime minister escaped the attention of voters on Sunday.

A6 Pro-Syrian Attacked in Lebanon Lebanon's departing pro-Syrian defense minister escaped an assassination attempt with minor injuries in a car bombing that killed at least two people and wounded a dozen in a Christian suburb north of Beirut.