Example sentences of "[art] [noun] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Minister , Yitzhak Rabin , met Mr Mubarak in Cairo , and in the US , Mr Arens and Mr Peres separately met President Mubarak and the US Secretary of State , James Baker . |
| 2 | The Defence Minister , Jean-Pierre Chevenement , described it as ‘ tres elegant ’ . |
| 3 | The Defence Minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whose Labour Party forced last Friday 's inner cabinet vote on the Egyptian proposal , dismissed talk of a deadlock : ‘ I have time and patience and I am not pessimistic , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Even some of the Bulgarian old guard became impatient with Mr Zhivkov 's inability to dig Bulgaria out of its economic and political crisis and an important factor in yesterday 's coup was that one of this group , the Defence Minister , Mr Dobri Dzhurov , sided with Mr Mladenov . |
| 5 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 6 | The Defence Minister , Mr Yitzhak Rabin , welcomed the Egyptian acceptance of the Baker plan , while Mr Shamir 's aide , Mr Avi Pazner , gave a restrained response . |
| 7 | A staff meeting in East Berlin 's Defence Ministry , attended by the Defence Minister , Admiral Theodor Hoffmann , heard Captain Uwe-Jens Karl say that the political scandals had ‘ also discredited the whole army ’ . |
| 8 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 9 | The Defence Minister , Mr Yitzhak Rabin , welcomed the Egyptian acceptance of the Baker plan , while Mr Shamir 's aide , Mr Avi Pazner , gave a restrained response . |
| 10 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 11 | The Defence Minister , General Nicolae Militaru , issued a final appeal for the surrender of ‘ terrorist forces ’ still loyal to Ceausescu . |
| 12 | The defence minister , Ranjan Wijeratne , gave warning that a rally called in Colombo by the mothers would be violent . |
| 13 | Mr Suharto has been criticised for having too many Christians in his circle , among them the defence minister , some of his economic advisers and Chinese tycoons who control four-fifths of the country 's private industry . |
| 14 | The president has accused the defence minister , Husnu Dogan , a younger relation and an orphan brought up in the Ozal household , of being nothing short of a Brutus for opposing Semra 's decision . |
| 15 | The defence minister , General Hector Gramajo , is trying to turn the army into a professional force . |
| 16 | The defence minister of Syria , which has sent a division of tanks to help Saudi Arabia , admits to having felt ‘ overwhelming joy ’ at the missile attacks on ‘ occupied Palestine ’ . |
| 17 | Yet the German foreign ministry has merely tut-tutted and the defence minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , has called off the peeking , at least for the moment . |
| 18 | The reluctant resignation of the Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , over the outlawed use of German weapons against Kurdish rebels in Turkey diverted attention from a potentially much more embarrassing affair — Kohl 's clash with the world Jewish community over his demonstrative meeting in the Bavarian capital with Kurt Waldheim , the pariah President of Austria . |
| 19 | In December 1975 , during an upsurge of national feeling in the territories , the defence minister , Shimon Peres , ordered new municipal elections to take place in April 1976 . |
| 20 | At Gorbachev 's side stood Marshall Dmitri Yazov , the defence minister who would later betray him in the attempted coup . |
| 21 | ‘ They ought to shoot the defence minister instead . ’ |
| 22 | We also spent time in the capital , Guatemala City , where we talked to senior government officials like the defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa . |
| 23 | The Tigers were said by the government to have blown up the defence minister , Ranjan Wijeratne , in March 1991 , and a general , Denzil Kobbekaduwa , in August 1992 . |
| 24 | The defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa , suddenly called for a return to constitutional rule . |
| 25 | The defence minister , Kaspar Villiger , and his supporters reply that Switzerland needs something to replace its now 30-year-old Hawker Hunters . |
| 26 | The prime minister , Edouard Balladur , the finance minister , Edmond Alphandéry , and the defence minister , François Léotard , are strong supporters . |
| 27 | Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister , Ahmad Shah Masood . |
| 28 | The strongest force there is run by Ahmed Shah Masoud , the defence minister . |
| 29 | But he is also being squeezed by the United States : the American Congress has suspended payment of $11m in military aid until the officers named in the report , including the defence minister , are sacked . |
| 30 | The magazine Der Spiegel had long-criticised the defence minister ( since 1956 ) , Franz Josef Strauss , who was right-wing , abrasive , pro-American and had hopes of becoming Chancellor . |