minister
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NEW DELHI—India’s education minister resigned on Saturday, handing the country’s youth movement a major victory and showing the growing heft of a Gen Z movement that began just months ago as online memes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Senior minister JP Nadda, who met the CJP leaders for the third time on Saturday after Pradhan's announcement, said, "we have accepted their demands".
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
At the time, the country’s foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu said that a U.S. official had expressed interest in the case.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
All eyes are on Taylor Farms and their contaminated lettuce, Trump tries a new tariff tactic, and Japan’s prime minister claims to barely sleep.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
“What do you mean, ‘wooden’?” asked the deputy prime minister.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Around 500 additional soldiers will be sent to "support the firefighters" battling blazes in southwest France, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said after a crisis meeting with his key ministers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Just how often will senior ministers be there?
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Stephenson said ministers should work with the EU to secure alternative markets for the refinery's alumina while preparing contingency plans, including examining nationalisation if necessary.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
After initially leaving the response to ministers and party spokespersons, the ruling BJP party's top leadership stepped in on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Like most of the Ivy League universities, Brown was founded by Protestant ministers as an expressly Christian college.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
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
It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley, at age 22, replaced a beloved pastor who had ministered to one of suburban Boston’s most famed Black churches for 24 years.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 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
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
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