How to Use the ministry in a Sentence

the ministry

noun
  • The next day, the ministry revised the figure down to 471.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Most of those killed have been women and minors, the ministry said.
    Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • One was 26 years old and the other was 35 years old, according to the ministry.
    Rohan Mattu, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The number of deaths in the accidents also fell 23.6%, the ministry said.
    Ng Han Guan, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Bombs fired from boats also caused dozens of deaths and injuries in Rafah, the update from the ministry said.
    Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Overnight bombing killed over 400 people in Gaza, the ministry said.
    Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Vetin's father and two siblings died in the quake, the ministry said in a statement, according to Reuters.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Since the war began, the ministry has cut back sharply on the release of information.
    David Cay Johnston, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The Hartford archdiocese said he was removed from the ministry in 2011.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
  • In some cases, the ministry even paid for their construction.
    Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • This part of the credit has previously been teased in less detail by the ministry.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Ten of those tanks had been destroyed in just 24 hours of fighting, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The burials included the remains of a small child and an adult, according to a statement from the ministry.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Van Brunt said the ministry confirmed the legality of the hiring.
    Justin Scheck, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • At least five medical workers have been killed, the ministry said.
    Ameera Harouda, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The passenger was then detained for seven days, the ministry said.
    Shikhar Gupta / Bloomberg, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • Six patients were left in the ICU with no one to watch over them, along with three infants in incubators, the ministry said.
    CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Cindi did not intend to give everything to the ministry.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • That number includes more than 4,000 children, the ministry said.
    NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Of the injured, the ministry wrote, 721 were in critical condition.
    Sam Metz and Mosa’ab Eishamy, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2023
  • According to the ministry, the decrease was due to a drop in oil prices and a reduction in natural gas exports.
    Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • As of Thursday, 66 people were injured as a result of shelling in the Kursk region, the ministry reported.
    Fidel Pavlenko, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Sixteen hours later, more than 60 people were still stranded in the remaining nine cabins in the air, the ministry said.
    Reuters, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Two of those died of malnutrition during the first days of Ramadan, according to the ministry.
    Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In a statement, the ministry said the Norwegian plane had neared Russian airspace but then had moved away after the Russian jet approached.
    NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This quote, reported by Reuters, was omitted from the ministry’s online transcript of the briefing.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Turnout in Tehran was about 25 percent, the ministry said, while other big cities reported around 30 percent.
    Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Nationwide, more than a million people joined protest marches held in cities and towns around the country Thursday, the ministry said.
    Alexander Turnbull, Nicolas Garriga, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Stratford is listed on the ministry’s website, but the ministry isn’t listed on Stratford’s site.
    Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
  • The Iraqi teenager is the third person to be detained and is believed to have links with the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots, according to the ministry.
    Mia Alberti, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024

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