Sentence examples for spend ministers from inspiring English sources

But, having boasted about how much they have to spend, ministers will find it hard to resist the demands of education and health workers for across-the-board pay rises, especially given the soaring earnings in the private sector.

They had a second, nine-to-five job and families of their own, and what little free time they had was spent ministering to their congregation.

His life so far, he observed with horror, had been spent "ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich .Morris was a Victorian craftsman, businessman, poet, printer and social activist; the sort of man who comes along "once or twice a century," says a recent biographer, Fiona MacCarthy.

Over the decades he has spent ministering to congregations in Memphis, Tennessee, he has accomplished much.

I was already learning this during several years of psychotherapy and meditation and from time spent ministering to the so-called "mentally ill" -- as well as hippies.

Current coalition partner Labour was in line to win just 7percentt of the ballot, which spending minister Brendan Howlin said meant they were out of the equation for the next government.

Surrounded by spending ministers, chancellors are in a minority in the cabinet.

The Treasury then briefed the media that other spending ministers will remain strapped in austerity straitjackets.

I asked another member of the cabinet whether the spending ministers were screaming blue murder.

Many spending ministers found it easiest to protect an item of expenditure by publicising the horrors of cutting it.

After eight of his budgets, spending ministers were dancing to the Treasury's tune across vast areas of government life.