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minister

[min-uh-ster] / ˈmɪn ə stər /




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France's foreign minister said Tuesday that Paris ruled out "nothing" to respond to a major cyberattack on hundreds of supermarket fridges in October that it has blamed on Iran.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

New chief minister pledges to deliver 'mandate for change'

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Former minister Alan Milburn's interim report, external found that children who are not school-ready at aged four or five are nearly three times as likely to be Neet by ages 16 to 17.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

On Monday, the president met with the prime minister of Qatar, a key mediator in the Iran-U.S. conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

As well as Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the foreign ministers of European G7 members Britain, Germany, Italy and France were also taking part, the French foreign ministry said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

"I am receiving dozens of messages from foreign ministers from all over the world offering their condolences," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on social media.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

“They will try to have a say over who the ministers are, what laws get passed and don’t get passed, and on matters that impact the Palestinian community in general but equality more broadly.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Labour ministers have been keen to sidestep talking about the impact of alignment in particular sectors, instead stressing the overall economic boost it expects the food deal to bring.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Capron’s publication ended with a two-page list of witnesses: doctors, judges, ministers, editors, lawyers, and prominent families throughout the country.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

As a missionary, parish priest and later as bishop in northern Peru he ministered to the poor, denounced the excesses of power and lobbied for action on climate change.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

“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

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

She shooed me out of the room and ministered to Perilee.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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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