ministry

[ˈmɪnɪstri]

Definition:
1. A government department that has a particular area of responsibility.

Use 'ministry' in a sentence:

1. All the universities are owned by the government, so there is the Ministry of Education in charge of creating the curriculum for the universities and so there is not much room for flexibility.
2. The Foreign Ministry has issued a flat denial of any involvement.
3. The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third.
4. People accused the ministry of failing to take adequate preventive measures.
5. Real servants are faithful to their ministry.
6. The firm has a cosy relationship with the Ministry of Defence.
7. The celibate ministry comes about later.
8. He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec's threat to separate from Canada.
9. Japan's education ministry ordered the change to encourage students to tear themselves away from textbooks.
10. Official Iranian news agency quoting a senior Foreign Ministry official has said preparations were being made for the Foreign Minister Dr. Ali-Ahbar Veliatti to visit Iraq.
11. A ministry official described the report as groundless.
12. Until now, if a person asked family elders, clergymen or the Ministry of Community Development to help get financial support from his children, the most they could do was to mediate.
13. As the killings took place outside British jurisdiction, the Ministry of Defence could not be held liable.
14. Justice Ministry officials say they hope a decision on whether to bring charges against the Israeli leader will be announced Sunday.
15. The embassy says it has telexed their demands to the foreign ministry.
16. His ministry is among the poor.
17. That is manipulation, not ministry.
18. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs speaker explained what was happening in Hongkong in detail, which clearly showed China's firm attitude.
19. The economics ministry has increasingly played a subsidiary role to the finance ministry.
20. He immediately fired off an angry letter to his ministry colleagues.
21. In Europe and Japan, universities are answerable only to a Ministry of Education, which sets academic standards and distributes money.
22. The exhibition is sponsored by the Machine-Building Ministry.
23. It's part of the ministry.
24. Lin's maturity could lead him to the ministry.
25. The comments were the ministry's first detailed public statement on the subject.
26. Their finance ministry is still trying to put a lid on the long-simmering securities scandal.
27. In 2016, only one fourth of Chinese cities met the country's air quality standards, according to a survey of 338 cities nationwide from the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
28. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has found from research carried out over two decades that 6-10% of children in that country are affected by hearing loss.
29. The foreign ministry in March inaugurated blue robot-cat Doraemon as Japan's "anime ambassador."
30. The Italian Culture Ministry says it is unaware of any government efforts to pressure UNESCO.
31. The courses and online classroom are provided by the Ministry of Education.
32. Stalin insisted that the radio link with the German Foreign Ministry should remain open.
33. The ministry of science and higher education splurged 67 million zlotys on the permanent exhibits.
34. The ministry ordered 113 of these and later put in a request for 21 more.
35. Under the ministry there are six departments.
36. When did the Russian Interior Ministry stop people from using the selfie stick?
37. An official from the Ministry of the Interior said six people had died.
38. The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
39. In a pre-emptive move the Interior Ministry arrested a number of suspected dissidents.
40. The ministry has said it hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies.
41. The Education Ministry proposed guidelines to decrease the amount of the homework given to students each day, their burden well above what they can endure.
42. A Foreign Ministry statement said that the French government rejoiced at the happy outcome to events.
43. So what prompted him to enter the ministry?
44. They were neglected before because they did not come under the Ministry of Defence.
45. The measures are being enforced by Interior Ministry troops.
46. Interest in jet propulsion was now growing at the Air Ministry.
47. This new ministry was being created with zero assets and zero liabilities.
48. The ministry said it reserved the right to take whatever action necessary.
49. Efforts to reform the Interior Ministry have not yet proceeded very far.
50. We applauded the Ministry of Health's efforts to reform the health care system, which helps relieve the high medical cost burdens.
51. The Ministry has been defeated by an overwhelming majority.
52. Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.
53. The Ministry of Agriculture commissioned a study into low-input farming.
54. The ministry had direct control over every aspect of foreign trade.