Example sentences of "[verb] as minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included Donald Kalpokas , the VP 's general secretary , who was sacked as Minister of Education and Foreign Affairs , together with Home Affairs Minister Iolu Abbil , Lands Minister William Mahit and Trade Minister Harold Qualao . |
| 2 | Lewis Silkin succeeded as Minister and it is largely through his influence that New Towns in Britain gained their significant role in post-war planning . |
| 3 | From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head . |
| 4 | The other new appointees were : Lee Hyun Woo as Director of the Agency for National Security Planning ; Paik Kwang Hyun as Minister for Home Affairs ; Lee Jung Woo as Minister of Justice ; Lew Hyuck In as Information Minister ; and Kim Dong Ik as First Minister of State for Political Affairs . |
| 5 | Carlos António Fernandes was dismissed as Minister of Transport and Communications on May 5 , 1990 , along with the Secretary of State for Town Planning , Housing and Water , reportedly for " sluggishness and non-implementation of directives " . |
| 6 | Alexandre Nunes Correia , Minister of the Civil Service and Labour since March 9 ( and hitherto Public Health Minister ) , was on June 8 , 1990 , dismissed for reasons which were not specified , and on July 31 Maj. José Pereira was dismissed as Minister of National Security and Public Order , a post he had held since 1985 . |
| 7 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 8 | In January 1991 Jacinto Jouvin and Jorge Gallardo , resigned as Minister of Industry , Commerce and Integration and of Finance and Public Credit respectively , to be replaced by Pablo Better and Juan Falconi [ see pp. 37958 ] ; on March 12 Diego Tamariz was dismissed as Minister of Energy and Mines , and replaced by Donald Castillo [ see pp. 38093-94 ] . |
| 9 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 10 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 11 | On Oct. 14 James Njiru was dismissed as Minister for Culture and Social Services ; Moi said that his dismissal was necessitated by a local party leadership dispute . |
| 12 | He was dismissed as Minister of Justice by Banda in 1964 . |
| 13 | Dinu Patriciu , nominated as Minister of Public Works and Physical Planning , was a member of the NLP 's youth wing , which following factional splits had severed its formal contact with the main party . |
| 14 | Those rejected by the National Assembly were Patriciu and Radu Berceanu , nominated as Minister of Youth and Sports . |
| 15 | He announced that he would resign as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations in the new government . |
| 16 | Sitiveni Rabuka , who had led two military coups in 1987 [ see pp. 35251-55 ; 35567-70 ] , resigned as Minister of Home Affairs and returned to military duties as head of the armed forces . |
| 17 | In January 1991 Jacinto Jouvin and Jorge Gallardo , resigned as Minister of Industry , Commerce and Integration and of Finance and Public Credit respectively , to be replaced by Pablo Better and Juan Falconi [ see pp. 37958 ] ; on March 12 Diego Tamariz was dismissed as Minister of Energy and Mines , and replaced by Donald Castillo [ see pp. 38093-94 ] . |
| 18 | The Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , the party with closest links to President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya , was led by Sid Ahmed Ould Baba , who had resigned as Minister of Interior , Posts and Communications in July . |
| 19 | Josef Riegler , who had already been replaced as Federal Vice-Chancellor by ÖVP president Erhard Busek on July 2 , resigned as Minister for Federalism and for Administrative Reform in the Federal Chancellery , and was replaced by Jurgen Weiss , while Johannes Ditz succeeded Günter Stummvoll as Minister of State to the Finance Minister . |
| 20 | On Dec. 3 Lutz Stavenhagen , 51 , resigned as Minister of State in the Chancellery in charge of overseeing the espionage services and German policy on Europe . |
| 21 | On Feb. 26 it was reported that Andras Galszecsy had resigned as Minister without Portfolio in charge of national security affairs . |
| 22 | It was reported on April 8 that Michel Mokuba Bokulo Mena , who had been appointed in the Cabinet reshuffle on March 28 , had resigned as Minister of Institutional Reforms apparently after disagreeing with the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | The government of Prime Minister Paul Keating suffered a serious blow on May 18 when Graham Richardson , one of the most senior members of the Cabinet , resigned as Minister of Transport and Communications . |
| 24 | Following the vote Bosiljko Misetic resigned as Minister of Justice and Administration . |
| 25 | Fresh elections here would be contested on Oct. 11 , and the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 9 reported that 26 candidates had come forward , including Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in late August in protest at the elections . |
| 26 | Among those elected was Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in August in protest at the elections . |
| 27 | Dhanabalan , an ally of Goh , had resigned as Minister of National Development in September 1992 . |
| 28 | Raymond Damas Ngollo became Defence Minister ( a portfolio previously held by the President ) , and was succeeded as Minister of State for Forestry by Paul Ngatse . |
| 29 | Vlok was appointed the Minister of Correctional Services and of Budget ; he was succeeded as Minister of Law and Order by Hernus Kriel , a conservative . |
| 30 | LYNDA Chalker , reappointed as Minister for Overseas Development despite losing her Wallasey seat at the election , yesterday backed United States Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady 's opposition to new funds for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development whose annual meeting in Budapest ended yesterday . |