Sentence examples for ministers preferred from inspiring English sources
But Marshal Philippe Pétain, a World War I hero whom Reynaud had made vice-premier to strengthen his cabinet, and other ministers preferred armistice with Germany.
Ministers' preferred option on dealing with the problem of the huge mountain of civilian plutonium at Sellafield – the biggest stockpile in the world – is to build a second Mox fuel plant.
But EU ministers preferred instead to focus on the Middle East and Africa, perhaps because if it can't solve a problem in Europe it might be best to try abroad?
The alternative – that ministers preferred the status of simultaneously knowing and not-knowing and thus the option of deniability – is worse: that they didn't care whether catholics lived or died as long as the Brits were winning the war.
There was Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who British judges ruled ended up being tortured in a Moroccan jail with the connivance of British intelligence, and then a string of others whom ministers preferred to pay off and shut up before the facts could emerge.
It comes as Rona Fairhead, ministers' preferred candidate to chair the BBC Trust, prepares to face MPs' questions.
British farming and environment ministers prefer the status quo.
Ministers prefer to refer to it as the removal of the spare room subsidy.
The consultation altered little of great substance, but it did highlight the language of the past that education ministers prefer.
Underlying the government's vigorous lobbying is a debate about whether Switzerland will remain neutral and isolationist or move, as most government ministers prefer, into the broader European community, with the defense commitments that would entail.
In the interests of conservation, scientists told the same committee that neonicotinoids should be, if not banned, then at least restricted... British farming and environment ministers prefer the status quo.
