minister
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South Korea is investigating an online leak of passport details belonging to President Lee Jae Myung and more than 160 other officials, a government minister said on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
"The prime minister... instructed us to ensure workers' rights and improve their living standards. He also instructed us to ensure that production and exports continue unhindered," Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed told reporters after the meeting.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The precise cost of each flight can depend on how many officials were with the prime minister, fuel costs and other factors such as landing fees.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
He said an Iranian delegation led by a deputy foreign minister had traveled to Qatar for the talks, but no direct meeting with U.S. officials was planned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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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The United States on Saturday urged against using food trade as a tool for "economic or political coercion," while acknowledging the difficulty of reaching a G20 consensus as foreign ministers wrapped talks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
Plaid ministers say it would allow for a more effective system tailored to Welsh communities and better integrated with health, housing and education.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa will meet with Canada's Mark Carney in Montreal on the second day of a summit that also features talks between Canadian ministers and senior EU officials.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
During his time in office, which he will seek to extend in the Nov. 29 election, Mr. Sánchez has had three Socialist ministers in charge of public works and transport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Always, meeting us older hands in Mr. Muhammad’s service for the first time, there were several new ministers of small new Temples.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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“They ministered to us,” the initially reluctant nuns told Lastovica.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
He ministered to thousands of weekly worshipers in the 2010s, including the likes of Kevin Durant, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, whom he baptized in the bathtub of a former NBA player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
Mama Antula was an 18th century laywoman who ministered to the poor and helped keep Jesuit spirituality alive in Argentina after the religious order — to which the pope belongs — was suppressed.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 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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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
And no doubt Hilaria has been torn between ministering to her husband and her children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
The Church of England says that faith chaplains have been ministering to schools for centuries.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024
He kept thinking of her in that cabin, ministering to the bronze girl, all concern and kindness.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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