Sentence examples for off the minister from inspiring English sources

His advisers might tip off the minister that churches, traditional nurseries of all sorts of moral and political campaigns, are also charities.

According to the regulations, the reception parking area was only for the use of official cars collecting or dropping off the prime minister and his ministers.

He said that the publication of the guidance was "fairly imminent" once it was signed off by the minister.

Hardly had the Williams furore kicked off than the minister Phil Woolas had triggered headlines about a "Muslim inbreeding row" with remarks about the health risks of cousin marriages among Pakistanis - a practice traditionally favoured by British monarchs.

"I wouldn't write a song slagging off the prime minister.

He was enjoying himself, and became quite indignant with the Speaker, who cut him off: "The Prime Minister has finished his answer".

"If 2014 was the year of recovery, 2015 will be the year that the Spanish economy takes off," the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said last month.

Instead, after a vote that drew the largest turnout in a UK election for 20 years, it is the rebels who have seen off the prime minister.

Then, almost in the next sentence, he added a new turn to the government's pattern of confusion, and cut the legs off the finance minister's timetable for Spain's emergence from recession by as much as half.

Instead, after a vote that drew the largest turnout in a nationwide poll for 20 years, it is the rebels who have seen off the prime minister, gone within hours of the result's announcement.

The police arrested an 18th man in a suspected terrorist cell that was believed to be plotting to use truck bombs, take hostages and cut off the prime minister's head.