Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] of ministers [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The means of negotiation has profound implications for our democracy , for the accountability of Europe to the electorates of Europe and for the accountability of Ministers to their national Parliaments . |
| 2 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 3 | This procedure was accepted by the foreign ministers of the other five states , serving in their capacity as the Council of Ministers of the ECSC . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind the number of military items sold to the Iraqi regime by this country right up to the invasion of Kuwait and the highly critical comments made about the conduct of Ministers during the Gulf war , what right do the Government have to lecture hon. Members on the Opposition Benches over defence matters ? |
| 5 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 6 | Gasan Aziz ogly Gasanov was appointed as the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers on Jan. 26 . |
| 7 | Do Muoi , hitherto a Vice-Chairman , became Chairman of the Council of Ministers on June 22 , 1988 , following the death on March 10 of Pham Hung . |
| 8 | A referendum held in 1980 rejected the restoration of political parties ( proscribed by the King in 1961 ) but decided in favour of retaining the panchayat system with limited reforms , namely ; ( i ) the election to the Rashtriya Panchayat by universal adult franchise of 112 members for a five-year term ( the remaining 28 members being nominated by the King ) ; and ( ii ) the appointment of the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of the Prime Minister ( elected by the Rashtriya Panchayat ) . |
| 9 | President Mobutu Sese Seko carried out a reshuffle of the Council of Ministers on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the changes affecting more than one-third of its members . |
| 10 | In a significant reshuffle of the Council of Ministers on Jan. 8 , President Moussa Traoré relinquished his post as Minister of National Defence , which he entrusted to Brig. -Gen . |
| 11 | Masri 's position had been strengthened by the lifting of martial law and the decision of the Council of Ministers on July 14 to approve two draft laws , one amending the state security court law and the other sanctioning political parties . |
| 12 | In their tasks they are answerable to the VPK , the Central Committee and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers for Defence Production . |
| 13 | The Luxembourg government , which held the presidency of the Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , presented a redrafted draft union treaty on June 20 . |
| 14 | The Italian Foreign Minister , Gianni De Michelis , speaking in his current capacity as President of the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , said that " I hope this is the first step towards complete compliance with UN resolutions " . |
| 15 | The 11th session of the Council of Ministers of the South Asian Association of Regional Co-Operation ( SAARC ) , held in Colombo , Sri Lanka , on July 8-9 , agreed to the drafting of a SAARC preferential trading agreement for submission to the SAARC summit in December 1992 . |
| 16 | Byambasuren , a 48-year-old Soviet-trained economist , had served as Deputy Chair of the Council of Ministers since late 1989 . |
| 17 | He was replaced as General Secretary of the Council of Ministers by Niko Gjyzari , who was in turn replaced as Chair of the State Planning Commission by Bujar Kolaneci . |
| 18 | Bou Thang and Chea Soth were replaced as Vice-Chairs of the Council of Ministers by Sar Kheng and Norodom Chakkrapong . |
| 19 | In fact what is proposed by Mr Ceravolo in his report to the Parliament is the setting of a timetable for the elimination of lead from petrol and it is likely that this will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers in June and it is to be hoped that the Council will then call on the Commission to proceed to a new directive on the matter to replace the existing one which determines the 0.15 minimum level . |
| 20 | Pyotr Paskar resigned as Chair of the Council of Ministers in Moldavia on May 24 in response to criticism of his government voiced in the new Moldavian Supreme Soviet ( elected in February — ibid . ) . |
| 21 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |
| 22 | The Court then quashed sentence on Narmakhonmadi Khudayberdiyev , Chair of the Council of Ministers in 1971-84 , imposed in 1989 [ see p. 36898 ] . |
| 23 | A meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the current 24 members in Madrid on Feb. 21 was expected to confirm the decision . |
| 24 | The best hope of breaking the current deadlock may lie in a threat by the European Parliament to take legal action against the Council of Ministers in the European Court of Justice . |
| 25 | One problem will undoubtedly be the growing demands of the European Parliament , backed by Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , to be given a bigger say with the Council of Ministers in setting broad Community economic objectives and in holding a future EC central bank to account . |
| 26 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 27 | Proposed Directives were produced on these issues by the Commission before the Council of Ministers on 21 February 1992 . |
| 28 | A copy of the report goes to the minister responsible in advance of publication where the matter is shortly to come before the Council of Ministers for decision . |
| 29 | The Cabinet formed in the reshuffle of Ministers in the autumn of 1985 was the first since the war to contain no women ( apart from the Prime Minister herself ) . |
| 30 | It recommends a full evaluation study of the problem , and urges an end to the disagreement in the Council of Ministers over regulations governing finance for pollution research . |