What's the difference between ministry and underministry?
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joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.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.