Sentence examples for ministers less from inspiring English sources

INTERVENTIONS by former prime ministers less than six months or so before a general election tend to be couched in hints and insinuations, rather than full-throated advice.

Constrained though he is, by coalition and the claims of good men, he could have done: there are several ministers less obviously able than Ms James and Ms Leadsom.

Hotel workers and the like are to be trained (with dubious rigour) in how to respond to attacks.The battle of ideas, however, sees ministers less certain and less unified.

It took the prime minister less than a week to flick the hyperbole switch and declare the ALP plan will be virtual Armageddon for the housing market.

The scheme has now cost him a key minister less than a year before a general election, while Mr Portas has agreed to be questioned on the issue by a parliamentary committee.

Is it fair to give a minister less than two years to do the job?

Malian interim President Diouncounda Traore has appointed a new prime minister, less than 24 hours after the predecessor was forced to resign by the military.

Other ministers fared less well.

The incoming ministers were less amenable to the expansive priorities of the old regime.

Women represent only 21% of government ministers, and less than 20% of deputies in parliament.

But other conservative voices, his contemporaries as junior ministers, are less charitable than Redwood about Hague.