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“I’ve been very forthright with the prime minister because he can read the polls just as well as I can,” Smith said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Speaking on the programme, she said she had discussed holding a public inquiry into the alleged behaviour of Epstein and Al Fayed with the prime minister and cabinet secretary Dame Antonia Romeo during her re-appointment.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Tokyo's defence minister said Tuesday the military needs to be boosted with a "sense of urgency and crisis", as a new government assessment warned of growing threats from China, Russia and North Korea.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

In Carney, Trudeau’s Liberal Party successor as prime minister, Smith has found an unlikely ally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

BBC Verify has looked at the reasons why ministers feel the need to resort to these measures.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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

On Tuesday, EU interior ministers will have emergency talks by video conference to discuss the issue.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

I followed the servant past the lodgings of courtiers and ministers greater than my father.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

Powe’s relatives belonged to the Knights, named for a 17th century Spanish Jesuit who ministered to enslaved people in Colombia and is the country’s patron saint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

He ministered to Inuit communities until he left in the 1990s and returned to France.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

After the night of the feast and in the following bloody days she and Mary ministered to Cora, applying brine and poultices to her ravaged skin and making sure she ate.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

The commission cited Lin’s work ministering to fellow prisoners and translating the Bible into Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

He read books, even though we didn’t have two pennies to rub together, ministering to the poor miners.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney