What's the difference between ministery and ministry?
Ministery
Definition:
(n.) See Ministry.
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.
Ministry
Definition:
(n.) The act of ministering; ministration; service.
(n.) Agency; instrumentality.
(n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
(n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
(n.) Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(4) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(5) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(6) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(7) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(8) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
(9) In consequence of the findings the Netherlands Ministry for Housing, Physical Planning and Environment appropriated money to cleanup contaminated gardens.
(10) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(11) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
(12) On Sunday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed a serious further offence review would take place to see if lessons can be learned from the case.
(13) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
(14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(15) Japan's trade and industrial ministry warned on Wednesday that Google must follow Japan's privacy law in implementing its new approach, and that Google needed to provide explanations to address users' concerns.
(16) The decision will mean the Ministry of Justice has to find as much as £100m in extra savings over four years from elsewhere in its budget.
(17) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
(18) The Ministry of Defence has said it is “planning for a seamless transition of assets”.
(19) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(20) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.