(n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
(n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
(n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
(2) A former military chaplain who used his position to "influence and promote" the abduction and killing of Tutsi refugees in Rwanda was found guilty of genocide and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today.
(3) They will make an assessment of Christ in that, and so I’ve been trying to hold the prayer that, whatever I’ve done or said, somehow Christ will be seen in it, or at least I won’t get in the way of that.” Revealing a glass half full attitude that may stand her in good stead in the potentially fraught times ahead, Elizabeth Jane Holden “Libby” Lane, whose husband is the chaplain at Manchester airport, stresses that she would “much rather travel with people than confront them”, but insists that that “doesn’t mean I won’t face up to difficult choices or decisions when they have to be made”.
(4) The discrepancy in chaplain use suggests a need for objective study about the chaplain's role.
(5) The findings revealed that 1) nearly 4 out of 10 priests have reservations about the traditional church teaching on direct abortion; 2) 64% state that the traditional teaching is clear and that they are in complete agreement with it; 3) the younger the priest the less likely he is to agree with the church position; 4) hospital chaplains express more agreement with the traditional teaching than any other job category; 5) the proportions who disagree are highest in the two New York City dioceses, 6) the higher the education of the priest the less likely he is to agree with the traditional position; 7) there is a strong relationship between a priest's position on the tradit ional church teaching and his won political activity related to abortion such as writing to officials protesting the liberalized law, etc.
(6) I’m a very visible director.” But some staff members acknowledge that the size of the prison creates challenges, echoing the concerns of campaigners such as Frances Crook of the Howard League, who said: “Prisoners held in smaller prisons tend to be more engaged in the prison regime, enjoy better staff–prisoner relationships, and are safer than those held in large prisons.” Kate Clay, Oakwood’s head of healthcare (which is contracted out to Worcestershire health and care NHS trust) says: “This is the biggest prison I have ever worked in; the sheer size of the establishment, getting from one end to another in an emergency, it takes quite a long time.” The outgoing chaplain, David Weller, is the only unreservedly critical voice.
(7) The Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, 52, chaplain to the House of Commons and a chaplain to the Queen Born and brought up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she is the first black female chaplain to the Commons, and is known for her straight talking.
(8) Ben Arnold Children’s Hospital: The Chaplains 7.30pm, BBC2 Six-month-old Lucyellen has flown in from Belfast for a liver transplant.
(9) Once the decision was made, social workers and nurses were most caring and helpful, residents and chaplains were rated the lowest.
(10) "It this is not challenged," Pemberton said on Sunday, "it will send a message to all chaplains of whom a considerable number are gay and lesbian.
(11) Faull has been the chaplain of an Oxbridge college, run two cathedrals, sat on some of the church's most important committees – but she remains a woman, and cannot until December at the earliest be named as a diocesan bishop.
(12) Chris McGreal's Chaplains of the Militia , on the role of the Catholic church during the genocide, is out now from Guardian Shorts.
(13) "Our numbers have reduced ever since we started in 2008," Denis, the chaplain and a primary school teacher, tells me.
(14) It’s important that we get a full picture of what went on.” Jill Healy, the executive principal of Flinders Christian Community college, where the boy went to school, told Fairfax radio the school would hold briefings and that chaplains would be available for staff, students and parents.
(15) Wilson cited disputes over mosques, such as in Bendigo and Penrith; public funding for school chaplains; and the recent case of a West Australian girl at a Christian school who was told she was not welcome because her father was in a relationship with a man.
(16) The inquiry centres on a former chaplain and governor at the Roman Catholic state school in Fulham, south-west London, at which Prime Minister Tony Blair's two eldest sons are pupils.
(17) The matter is complicated because Pemberton, who lives in Southwell and sings in the minster there, already has a job as a hospital chaplain in the neighbouring diocese of Lincoln.
(18) The Rev Canon Dr Judith Maltby, chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a reader in church history at the university, said that while many lay and clerical members of both churches got on well, the Roman Catholic and Anglican hierarchies were living through an "ecumenical winter".
(19) Rukundo, a parish priest before becoming a chaplain in the military in 1993, was described by the court as a well-known priest in the community who had abused his position.
(20) A chaplain's assistant and a nurse had alerted the primary physician to the spouse's statements that her husband did not want his life prolonged by extraordinary means.
Minister
Definition:
(n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
(n.) An officer of justice.
(n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
(n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
(n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
(n.) To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
(v. i.) To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
(v. i.) To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(3) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(4) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(5) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(6) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(8) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(9) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(10) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(11) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(12) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(13) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(14) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
(15) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(16) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(17) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(18) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.