Sentence examples for ministers spending from inspiring English sources

Few envisage Conservative ministers spending more now on rundown estates than Labour did during a boom.

He told a media briefing in Cardiff other areas of his ministers' spending "can be regarded as unprotected".

Lib Dem ministers spent much of the conference jigging delegates' memories of those days.

Successive foreign ministers spent more time explaining the prime minister's blunders than developing a foreign-policy agenda.

After losing office, most prime ministers spend their time making money or defending their record.

Instead, ministers spent much of Thursday trying to devise a strategy for overcoming the divide over the future of Kyoto.

Having enacted a C$46.6 billion ($43 billion) fiscal stimulus, Mr Harper and his ministers spent the summer criss-crossing the country, handing out large cheques.

NATO's defense ministers spent the day contemplating how to reshape their militaries to counter the terrorist threat, and how to pay for it.

Shadow ministers spent much of the day rubbishing the "dodgy Tory dossier", which the shadow chancellor said was a combination of error and pure fabrication.

"The NHS is full of brilliant people who dedicate their lives to caring for our loved ones and ministers spend a great deal of time on the frontline thanking and praising them for their hard work," a spokeswoman said.

Lord O'Donnell, formerly Britain's top civil servant, said it would be better if ministers spent their time implementing policy that had already been announced rather than changing too much in the last 10 months before the election.