Sentence examples for principal Minister from inspiring English sources

He was appointed historiographer to Louis XIV by the king's principal minister, Jules Mazarin, in 1646.

In 1677 Juan José led an army against Madrid and made himself Charles II's principal minister.

He was charged with diplomatic missions and eventually became the king's principal minister, controlling war, the royal household, public works, and foreign affairs.

When the principal minister, Muṣṭafā Khaznadār (who had served from the earliest days of Aḥmad Bey's reign), attempted to squeeze more taxes out of the hard-pressed peasants, the countryside rose in a revolt (1864).

Disruptive conflicts when Edward took over government could thus be minimised, while Dudley's chances to continue as principal minister would be good.

She, however, was so shocked and dismayed at the loss of her principal minister, that she gave Apokaukos's supporters, who were joined by the Gasmouloi, the fleet's marines, free rein to avenge their leader's death.

(Members of the House of Commons prefer to have the principal ministers in their sights).

The titles premier and first minister were variously applied to each of the principal ministers until 1869, when premier became customary.

His conduct soon brought him to the notice of the government, and, after he was made secretary at war (1704), he was converted, temporarily, to the moderate policies of Robert Harley, one of Queen Anne's principal ministers.

But his success went largely unrecorded in Britain, where the front pages concentrated on the fact that he and his principal ministers used three separate government airplanes to get to Portugal.

Mr. Bush's principal ally, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, suffered a significant defection of Labor Party support over his alliance with Washington on Iraq policy.