Sentence examples for outgoing ministers from inspiring English sources

Some outgoing ministers had been fixtures for longer than Mr Mubarak himself.

Outgoing ministers have already conceded it will be weeks, possibly months, before a minority government or a power-sharing alliance could be agreed.

It is a convention for outgoing ministers to leave a note for their successors with advice on how to settle into the job.

On the eve of a contest that will determine who leads Fianna Fáil into its most disastrous ever general election, outgoing ministers had the look of condemned men about them.

"They do this through incredibly close relationships, not just with the outgoing ministers in DECC Departmentt for Energy and Climate Change) but with a whole generation of civil servants in DECC who can hardly move without consulting with the Big Six first," he said, adding that much of the influence is exerted through secondments.

Mr Cotti, who held the country's rotating presidency in 1998, had the arduous job of defending Switzerland's reputation as high-mindedly neutral against the growing band of critics who think the country behaved shabbily to Jews in the second world war.Parliament will meet in March to elect replacements for the two outgoing ministers.

The 82-year-old outgoing minister of justice slept through meetings.

Tornike Gordadze, another outgoing minister says pointedly: "the best way to accommodate the tiger is to let him devour you".

Carr, the outgoing minister for foreign affairs, said in St Petersburg only a couple of days ago that his intention was to remain in parliament for the full term.

He has been weakened by a row with Fatmir Limaj, the outgoing minister of transport, who enjoys much support in the party.

Benny Begin, an outgoing minister and the son of Menachem Begin — a former prime minister and Likud's forefather — and Dan Meridor, another outgoing minister and the son of a longtime confidant of Begin, were dethroned in the last election's primaries.