6 sentences with 'ministers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ministers and other words derived from it.
• « Calvin created the Consistory, a group of Calvinist ministers who scrutinised the behaviour of Geneva's citizens, fining or imprisoning people for intemperate or ungodly behaviour. The idea was that, predestined or not, Geneva would be the model Christian community. »
• « Not only were the Scots well trained and organised, when parliament met it quickly turned against Charles, declaring his various laws and acts illegal and dismissing his ministers, an act remembered as "The Great Remonstrance". »
• « In the early 1780s, the French king Louis XVI (Louis XIV's great-great-grandson) appointed a series of finance ministers to "wade through" the "mountain" of reports and ledgers to determine how much the state owed, to whom, and how it would be possible to repay it. »
• « In turn, the most intelligent and important of his ministers was Count Camillo di Cavour (1810-1861), the true architect of Italian unification. »
• « In late September, German Chief of Staff Ludendorff advised the Kaiser to sue for peace. A month later, the Reichstag passed laws making government ministers responsible for this instead of the Kaiser. »
• « Primo de Rivera weakened representation in the state by making government ministers independent of parliament (the Cortes) and even managed to lose support in the army by interfering in the promotion of officers. »