(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joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.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.
Secretariat
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Secretariate
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one of these deaths were not reported to the secretariat.
(2) The all-party group for Bahrain is supported by the country's government, which engages Gardant Communications to act as its secretariat.
(3) Throughout our time on the victims and survivors’ panel, we have given our input and I would hope what we say is being considered as part of the review.” Saunders said the meeting took place with the inquiry secretariat but Jay was not present.
(4) French MEPs receive detailed memos from the general secretariat of European affairs, an intergovernmental structure in Paris.
(5) At least seven militants and one police officer were killed in two separate clashes on Sunday, the Indian army said, with one of the gunfights, around a government secretariat in the Poonch district of Jammu, still raging on Monday.
(6) Sixty seven this week, he was at the Commonwealth secretariat and chief economist at Shell (1995-97), before winning a seat at Twickenham 27 years after he first tried to enter parliament for Labour.
(7) A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
(8) The dispute tribunal, which was created in 2009 in an effort to improve the UN's system of internal justice, has challenged the power of the secretariat on several occasions, forcing it to hand over evidence in Wasserstrom's case, and a higher court has rejected the UN's attempt to appeal.
(9) The Society has established a Secretariat, a central bureau where requests about acquisition of new skills or details of research opportunities may be directed, advertised, and relayed.
(10) Overseas, he designed the United Nations secretariat in New York, the Communist party headquarters in Paris and Serpentine gallery summer pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
(11) Customers have one month to nominate a third party based in Switzerland, such as a lawyer, to manage or challenge the disclosure process on their behalf, according to a spokesman for Switzerland’s State Secretariat for International Finance.
(12) The veteran leftist Dimitris Vitsas, who sits on Syriza’s political secretariat, said now that the “people have spoken” the government would move quickly to tackle the devastating effects of austerity.
(13) Iglesias’s stance echoed a statement released by his party’s international secretariat a day earlier.
(14) This station, on the Violet line, one stop east from Central Secretariat, is the place to buy tailored clothes.
(15) One secretariat staff told Irin: “Now, it’s a bunch of people in New York writing the SG report, and who literally have taken over a lot of the process.” Within this messy landscape, some proposals have begun floating to the top, and, more importantly, others have fallen by the wayside.
(16) The board’s secretariat is provided by a seconded member of the justice ministry’s national offender management service and is understood to have requested Appleby keep his presentation focused on the wider aspects of the issue over which he has been an expert for more than 20 years.
(17) When he’d tried out that gag the night before at the secretariat of his local politburo, everyone had fallen about laughing.
(18) The main role of the secretariat in the evaluation of patient care is that of a facilitator with the provision of organisational and computer skills with secretarial back-up and co-ordination of clinical review activities.
(19) Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate secretariat, said the figures showed emissions were rising once again in eastern Europe .
(20) The BBA provides the secretariat to the committee, whose power was highlighted in its annual report of 2006-07 , which contained numerous references to the group's influence over regulators.