Sentence examples for ministers priority from inspiring English sources

On her way into today's meeting, the EU foreign policy chief, Cathy Ashton, said the ministers' priority would be "ensuring that we're working absolutely in step with particularly the Netherlands, to make sure that everything we do fits into their need".

Daisy Sands, Greenpeace UK head of energy, said: "The government's own survey shows ministers' priorities on energy are at the polar opposite of what the British public wants.

Sources familiar with the Government's approach to the junior doctor contract negotiations have told The Independent that one of ministers' priorities is to reduce the cost of NHS staffing bill by bringing contracts into line with many in the private sector which make no distinction between weekend and weekday pay rates.

Nominating him could help soothe Mr Cameron's ruffled counterparts.Not that that is currently the prime minister's priority.

If I were Prime Minister, my priority would be to eradicate the pain and suffering caused by global poverty.

Although Mr Tarasyuk managed to win few friends abroad with his charmless personal style, Mr Kuchma has said bluntly that the new foreign minister's priority must be to placate Russia.

The reluctant move to utter the word "cuts" in public freed the chancellor, Alistair Darling, to reveal that he has started talks this week with cabinet ministers on priorities and areas ripe for cuts in advance of the pre-budget report in November.

Chief among them is a lack of certainty about the prime minister's priorities and intentions.

"Malnutrition should be high on the list of the new prime minister's priorities.

Above all, Italians are increasingly alarmed by the divide between the country's ills and the prime minister's priorities.

Should he go, his departure would mark the seventh change at the top of Japan's financial regulator, perhaps the most important post in the cabinet, in little more than a year.Even if, by some miracle, Mr Yanagisawa's plan does survive in some form, the next prime minister's priorities are likely to lie elsewhere.