What is "ministership"

Usage examples of "ministership".

As to money, he had given her almost carte blanche, having at one vacillatory period of his Prime Ministership been talked by her into some agreement with her own plans.

His prime ministership was gone from him, and he sank down into the comparatively humble position of Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Prologue 25 Macdonald, Laurier, and King exploited the democratic limits of the prime ministership, without pretending they were zealous reformers.

His assumption of the prime ministership forced a fairly serious money problem on Diefenbaker, as it has on all Canadian politicians who were not rich before taking office.

Unlike most politicians, who set their sights on the prime ministership early in life, then spend the next three or four decades trying to achieve their ambition, St Laurent became prime minister only seven years after he had reluctantly entered politics.

He made the prime ministership much more accessible to the average citizen and sometimes used its powers in helping the little man overcome the inevitable injustices of bureaucratic administration.

However petty these activities may have appeared to outsiders, for Diefenbaker such occasions were a necessary relief from the racking, perpetual burden which the prime ministership lays on a man.

With the robust resolution born of a lifetime spent achieving unlikely objectives, George Hees craved the prime ministership of Canada.

Diefenbaker still insisted on clinging to the prime 499 500 Twilight of Power ministership, thus risking not only his own humiliation but permanent damage to his Party.

The two major parties continued to win Diet elections until they were dissolved in 1940 in the name of national unity, but the prime ministership from 1932 on was held either directly by military men or by bureaucrats who cooperated with them.

Negro was ready for change, for one reason, because he had lost the honor of ministership to Haiti, Henry W.

Lord Derby, a man who was in the running for the prime ministership of England.

Thus, in politics, for example, we find that the British prime ministership has been turning over since 1922 at a rate some 13 percent faster than in the base period 1721-1922.

They had arranged his own accession to the Prime Ministership, he knew now….

But he'd insisted upon democratic Palestinian elections as part of his agreement to accept the prime ministership, and the PLC had readily agreed, so that wasn't likely to be a problem.