(a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
Example Sentences:
Ministerial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal.
(a.) Tending to advance or promote; contributive.
Example Sentences:
(1) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(2) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(3) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(4) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
(5) Ministers from across government in the inter-ministerial group on migrants' access to benefits and public services (IMG) have already been discussing for more than six months how to deliver Cameron's pledge to make the rules for new migrants the toughest in Europe.
(6) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(7) A former ministerial colleague of Iain Duncan Smith once put it to me that he was a striking example of cognitive dissonance: that is, of holding two or more contradictory beliefs in his head at any given moment.
(8) The Ulster Unionist health spokesman added: "I am concerned that a high court judge has deemed that the minister of health has breached the ministerial code.
(9) Sajid Javid, the economic secretary to the Treasury, said in a written ministerial statement.
(10) But they were brave because they were risking future ministerial careers."
(11) The MPs also reject weakening the FoI law on the release of information that would prejudice collective ministerial responsibility, or inhibit the frank exchange of views within the government.
(12) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(13) May urges her ministerial colleagues to use the code to underpin their conduct as part of efforts to create a “fairer Britain” where “everybody plays by the same rules”.
(14) The Sydney-based Liberal MP said there was no trigger for a ministerial reshuffle.
(15) Despite ministerial denials, this is yet more proof that privatisation is an everyday reality in the NHS.
(16) No 10 said it would split the equalities and women's ministerial posts – handing the first to the new culture secretary, Javid – because Morgan had voted against legalising gay marriage.
(17) In a low-key, written ministerial statement on Wednesday, the immigration minister Robert Goodwill revealed that a government scheme to bring unaccompanied child refugees to the UK from Europe would in effect be wound up, with only 150 more due to be transferred.
(18) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(19) Hancock, a former chief of staff to Osborne, is lining up with Downing Street policy board head Jo Johnson and the Cabinet Office minister and prime ministerial aide Oliver Letwin to make a historic break with the Tories' original opposition to the minimum wage in the late 1990s.
(20) The government is determined to make sure the political blame for the scandal lies with the food industry and the labellers rather than any lapse of ministerial regulation.