minister
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Lavrov last met with a German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, in January 2022, less than a month before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Rayner previously served as deputy prime minister under Sir Keir, and was brought back into cabinet by Burnham in July.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
More than 800 people employed at hydropower projects in Nepal remain unaccounted for, the energy minister told parliament last week.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
In March, at a dinner in Athens attended by Greek and U.S. officials, Guilfoyle got into an argument with Greece’s energy minister, Stavros Papastavrou, in front of the other guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
A black minister in Waterloo, Mississippi, explained his outrage at the fate that has befallen African Americans in the post-civil rights era.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met earlier Saturday with Lavrov, the first meeting between Moscow and Berlin's foreign ministers since before the war.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
In February, Exarchou returned to Washington with Guilfoyle, joining the energy ministers of Greece and Bulgaria for dinner at Joe’s Seafood, a Washington surf-n-turf establishment across from the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
A spokesperson for the Department for Education says ministers take the "significant opportunities and challenges" of AI "incredibly seriously".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
And it has put pressure on the government, less than a year after ministers acknowledged the scale of the issue and declared gender-based violence a national disaster.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It had been built for ministers with large families.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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
During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
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
One of them, Sister Jeannine Gramick, has ministered to LGBTQ+ Catholics for more than 50 years and is a co-founder of New Ways Ministry, which advocates on their behalf.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
Side by side, in the sanctuary of God’s fleas, Betsie and I ministered the Word of God to all in the room.
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
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
They both earned plaudits for doing the hard work of ministering from blue-collar cities — Buenos Aires for Francis, San Antonio for Gomez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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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