minister
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The couple's family recently met the UK's first envoy for complex consular cases, Alistair Burt, and the new minister for the Middle East, Stephen Doughty.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Thailand cut excise taxes on imported electric cars and the country’s prime minister recently swapped his Rolls-Royce for a BYD as part of a national push to save energy, according to local news reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
He was a close friend and advisor to David Cameron, who served as the U.K.’s prime minister from 2010 to 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Although 14 candidates are on the ballot, analysts say the race has narrowed into a two-horse contest between Hichilema and Mundubile, a 55-year-old former minister.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Well it just so happened that a minister of immigration, a mullah, a boss man in the government, had taken an eager bite of a peach and broken his left front tooth on the stone.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Thames Valley Police, the force Harper worked for, "may take legal action against ministers", it writes.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In March Sir Keir told MPs that ministers were increasing defence spending by £270bn.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Felix talks sovereign debt with the man finance ministers consult when even they don’t get it.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
On currency markets the yen weakened against the dollar after Friday's rally sparked by a historic joint intervention by Japanese and US authorities, and their finance ministers pledged to support the unit again.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
He saw priests, also, and people he assumed were ministers and rabbis and Muslim clergy.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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The Rev. Rob Schenck, a former Christian nationalist who once ministered to the right in Washington, told me that Suozzi said at the time that he was living at C Street.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
Rev MacKenzie ministered the late Queen in her final days and supported the royal family following her death.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
He ministered to Inuit communities until he left in the 1990s and returned to France.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Even her hair was graciously in place as if an angel had ministered to her.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Describing her experience ministering as a person of colour, Rev Eileen Cremin said it was "overall positive".
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
The region’s Catholic institutions responded to last year’s aggressive raids with an outpouring of charity, reorganizing many food pantries around grocery delivery and ministering directly to communities many described as under siege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024
The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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