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minister

[min-uh-ster] / ˈmɪn ə stər /




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Chancellor John Healey is due to set out his tax and spending plans on 28 October - the first Budget since Andy Burnham became prime minister.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But she doubted whether a different future prime minister would ultimately question settlements themselves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

On Monday, Macron’s office said his interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, had offered his resignation, but the president had declined it because of the need for stable leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

His boss's Instagram page now features videos of the former prime minister lifting weights to rap music, or chatting with Shalev in the street.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

After crossing the Atlantic, the two girls stopped in London, where John Adams, the American minister to England, and his wife, Abigail, met the pair.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Both men are powerful ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Looted goods have been listed on certain selling platforms, two French government ministers said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Saudi ministers have instead sought to reassure residents and investors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 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

Plaques and awards lined the walls, along with photos of the mayor with presidents, prime ministers, and everyday Baltimoreans.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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

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

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

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Because of that, the Catholic Church in Ireland considers Fr Doyle to be an "ecumenical martyr of charity" who died ministering to soldiers of other Christian denominations.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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

And no doubt Hilaria has been torn between ministering to her husband and her children.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 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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