Sentence examples for ministers finished from inspiring English sources

The foreign ministers finished their last meeting just before midnight, but the technical experts in various working groups only got a couple of hours in their beds.

"This is really a significant achievement, in that it shows how APEC can lead," Mr. Marantis said in an interview after ministers finished their preparations for the summit meeting Saturday and Sunday in the Russian port of Vladivostok.

EU finance ministers finished marathon talks early on Wednesday - but they will try again next week to reach a deal on the eve of an EU summit.

Those commanders predict that Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, the NATO commander, will recommend no changes in American troop levels when NATO ministers finish their next review of Balkan peacekeeping operations in December.

Mr. Hunt, a Protestant minister, finished third in the Tuesday primary, drawing 8percentt of the vote.

Cameron cleared Hunt minutes after the minister finished giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry on Thursday.

Lionel Jospin, the pragmatic and reasonably successful Socialist prime minister, finished third, with 16percentt.

No sooner had the prime minister finished his speech than the difficult questions began.

The former prime minister finished his last day of community service recently on separate charges of tax fraud.

His main competitor, Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister, finished a distant second, with 27.8percentt of the vote.

The onetime favourite, Jan Fischer, a former prime minister, finished third with 16.4%, bleeding support during the campaign's final weeks.