Sentence examples similar to ministry corps from inspiring English sources

The EEAS will serve as a foreign ministry and diplomatic corps for the European Union.

In Philadelphia, as in previous leadership positions in Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, he pushed the church to help immigrants, presided over cutbacks in Catholic parishes and schools, spoke out against homosexuality and abortion, and built up a lay ministry to compensate for the declining corps of priests.

As Paul Ginsborg, a historian at the University of Florence and an expert on postwar Italian history, explained, "The public administration, both local and national, never developed a culture of its own, an esprit de corps, as in the great French ministries or in Whitehall.

"The ministry is hiding behind the independence of the police corps," Berthomet said.

And at the same time, the long-term prospects for the corps is in doubt, because most Iraqi ministries are already overstaffed.

Under the new plans, NATO military personnel would be assigned only to the headquarters of the two security ministries, defense and interior; to the six Afghan National Army corps headquarters; and to the similar number of national police headquarters.

"A new minister will bring a lot of changes in the command structure of these ministries, which are currently filled with corrupt division and corps commanders and corrupt police chiefs who are incompetent and have failed to strengthen security," said Gul Pacha Majidi, a lawmaker from Paktia Province in the country's southeastern Pashtun belt.

The interior ministry stopped releasing its figures in 2004, and the national detective corps closed its press office the following year.

The turbans are thought to be eyeing the interior and defence ministries, perhaps in order to pack them with members of their "Badr Corps" militia.

Mr. de Maizière said that once at the helm of the ministry, he found that issues relating to turning the armed forces into a professional corps and adapting the ministry to the challenges of the 21st century had been left unresolved.

The tour will stop at campuses, youth corps and congregations across the country to share energies, ideas and passion for ministry.