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
• 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 Knesset would then have three weeks to present a prime ministerial candidate.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 15 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• The Kremlin said Putin ordered a ministerial delegation to the area to help support the families of the victims.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The ministerial team will convene tomorrow at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, the statement added.
  — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
• The prime minister acted after a standards probe found Zahawi had breached the ministerial code of conduct.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
• The statement, released at the conclusion of a ministerial meeting in Tokyo, said pauses would also help to facilitate the movement of civilians and the release of hostages.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• The court dismissed the application to review the ministerial decision, and said that costs apply.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• And that success ensured that at the 2022 ministerial meeting more funding was allocated for the program and more member states signed on to benefit from it.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 July 2023
• Johnson’s fine marked the first time a sitting British prime minister was sanctioned for breaking the law and he has been accused of reworking the ministerial code of conduct to stave off resigning for breaking the rules.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Indeed, the ultimate arbiter of the ministerial code is the prime minister himself.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Other major scandals that toppled major politicians over the last 30 years include a free stay in a friend’s hotel for a night, a favorable loan, or shoddy accounting on the use of the ministerial car.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• In 1978, he was appointed to the first of a series of ministerial posts, including Internal Affairs.
  — Fox News, 11 Nov. 2021
• The court has issued decisions about the ministerial exception in recent years, finding in favor of the religious schools.
  — Julie Moreau, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2021
• That may scupper the Move Forward Party leader’s chances of contesting the prime ministerial election in parliament, which may well drag into next week.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• The intense little group must articulate the church’s goals, interview ministerial candidates and present the best applicant to the laity.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• In January, a month before the invasion, a ministerial report on the readiness of the armed forces said only about three-quarters of the Bundeswehr’s main weapon systems were operational.
  — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• The ministerial trip to Paris set in motion an economic expansion and an integration with the rest of Europe that is open-ended and ongoing.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024