How to Use ministerial in a Sentence

ministerial

adjective

• They function in a ministerial capacity in the embassy.
• She holds a ministerial office.
• His remarks came in the midst of a week-long ministerial meeting that sets the WHO agenda for the year.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• She was named one of Pheu Thai’s three prime ministerial candidates ahead of the polls in 2023 and was made party chief last year.
  — Jintimas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• The sisters are still awaiting the results of a ministerial review of their case.
  — Maggie Freleng, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
• Then came Rishi Sunak, one of whose most recent acts has been to sack his party chairman for breaking the ministerial code.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
• One floor up, a study is complete with the traditional ministerial red boxes that are still used by the monarch.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• The end of the Korean War officially, while ministerial in its kind of layout is a big deal here in the region.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2018
• The Knesset would then have three weeks to present a prime ministerial candidate.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 15 May 2021
• Even small acts of ministerial competence can go a long way in a crisis.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Wired, 18 June 2020
• The last time a leader’s visit took place was in March 2017, and ministerial-level visits were few and far between.
  — James Laurenceson, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
• He was first elected to Finland's parliament in 2007 as a member of the NCP and later served in a number of ministerial roles.
  — David Faris, The Week, 5 Apr. 2023
• Insiders from both parties say the two groups haven’t agreed on who would get some other ministerial jobs.
  — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• South Africa has one of the world’s largest ministerial cabinets, with 28 ministers and 34 deputies.
  — Sarah Wild, Quartz Africa, 9 Apr. 2020
• Plauché will receive the honorary distinction, one of the four ministerial orders of the French Republic, at a gala event held on Sept. 13 in Chicago.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• He was later cleared of breaching the ministerial code.
  — Tara John, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• Philp moved to a ministerial post in the Cabinet Office.
  — Alex Morales, Kitty Donaldson, Emily Ashton, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
• So far, over 10 people, including the son of a ministerial colleague of Modi’s, have been arrested in the case.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2021
• The next ministerial conference was scheduled to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, this week and debate on this again.
  — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• Blue and White had won thirty-three seats; Gantz would now lead a faction of seventeen members, almost all of whom would be promised ministerial posts, and keep the party’s name.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2020
• The Kremlin said Putin ordered a ministerial delegation to the area to help support the families of the victims.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• The United Kingdom does not set out a prime ministerial chain of succession.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2020
• The panel reasoned that Biel was not performing a ministerial function of a church.
  — Maura Dolan, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• In subsequent years, Douri served in a series of ministerial posts.
  — Philip Terzian, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
• Tomegah-Dogbe chose a government in which women hold 30% of ministerial positions, a record for the country.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2020
• The Saudis and Russians celebrated with a ministerial barbecue in Riyadh that was meant to put their price war of last spring firmly into the past.
  — Daniel Yergin, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
• Normally, a summit like this would follow extensive preparations and -- and talks at the ministerial (ph) level and -- and so on, up and up and up until getting to the point that the two heads of state would meet.
  — CNN, 27 May 2018
• On his way home from his prime ministerial office in Beijing, his car was blocked by student protesters.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Deri allies have been signaling this week that the Shas party leader would not resign his ministerial post even if the court ruling went against him.
  — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• A day before he was sworn in as the chief adviser to the interim government with prime ministerial powers, Yunus was acquitted in a labor violation case in which he had been sentenced to six months in jail.
  — Arun Devnath / Bloomberg, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024