minister
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Nearly 150 people had been jailed and more than 800 brought before the courts, according to the justice minister.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
His housing minister, Vincent Jeanbrun, singled out "a small part of our working-class neighbourhoods" as the home of many of the perpetrators.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Among those to speak are Jeff Edwards, who met the prime minister on Monday, and who was one of the last children to be brought out alive from the rubble.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
He was then elected unopposed to be leader of the Labour Party and prime minister within weeks.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Instead of the prime minister, it sounds like she hacked some appointments secretary,” answered Brooklyn.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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He is due to meet Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who says ministers in Cardiff should hand more powers to local authorities, later this month.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
O'Cofaigh hopes Stormont ministers will recognise the "severity" of the situation.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
During his visit to the Uzbek city of Samarkand, an emblematic stop on the historic Silk Road, Rubio will participate in a C5+1 meeting with ministers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
But the chair of the Least Developed Countries group representing the world's 44 poorest nations also signed the letter, as did ministers from small-island states and many emerging economies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
His message of personal responsibility, particularly as it relates to fatherhood, was anything but new; it had been delivered countless times by black ministers in churches across America.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
Before his career took off, Reilly volunteered for the United Farm Workers and lived an ascetic life, sheltering in church halls, as he ministered to the poor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
In 2016, Francis canonized Argentina’s first saint: José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, a poncho-wearing, mate-sipping “gaucho priest” who ministered in the Argentine peripheries, and was in many ways a 19th-century version of Francis himself.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Elnora and I ministered to her with the juice of bitter roots and crushed flowers to purge her foul humors and ease the pains in her head.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Though in his chosen profession, Colbert has undoubtedly had a far greater impact, ministering to millions in a way few, if any, cultural figures who exist outside the religious sphere have ever done.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
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
My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024
Two of them made a number of visits but spent more time performing autopsies on dead bodies than ministering to the sick.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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