Sentence examples for ministers visiting from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration asked many of the ministers visiting Washington over the weekend to call on lawmakers in Congress and express their support for free trade.

Conservative ministers visiting the CIB were ambushed and photographed with anti-EU T-shirts, while Hannan's speeches – as his writings are now – were littered with arch, aphoristic observations.

They are enraged by the Kurds' refusal to fly the Iraqi flag, and ritually accuse them of being a fifth column for Israel and Zionists.Without fail, say Kurdish ministers, visiting Arab journalists raise both topics.

Its ministers have championed Mr Abbas's re-engagement in Gaza, and eased the ban on his ministers visiting the enclave, most recently allowing the deputy prime minister, Ziad Abu Amr, to inspect Gaza's wreckage.

Finance ministers visiting the IMF and the World Bank on October 11th, some of them from countries America has helped rescue in the past, seemed bemused by what was going on in Washington.

"At that point we weren't just fighting Albanese, we were also fighting the Liberal party, ex-Liberal prime ministers visiting the electorate, half the current front bench and the Murdoch press.

The government is trying to win over a sceptical left-wing party to the cause; it could hold a referendum on the euro next year, with a view to joining as soon as 2010.In contrast, Icelandic ministers visiting Brussels have been told, firmly, that euro membership cannot happen unless they join the EU first, a process that would take some years.

Valentyna Romanova, a Ukrainian political analyst, said if the presidents do get together around one table, the talks could prove more fruitful that last year's agreements, due to their multi-level format, with officials from all countries working out the specifics of a deal on paper first, followed by foreign ministers visiting Berlin this week.