How to Use minister to in a Sentence

minister to

phrasal verb

• Once part of an order, the Sisters minister to the sick and support the needy.
  — Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 16 June 2023
• Not-so-mysteriously, Alys was there to minister to Grover at the end and it’s been three days.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
• But Truss was just one of a handful of former Cabinet ministers to lose their seats.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 July 2024
• Crow had also worked at McGill-Toolen and ministered to students there, according to the report.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• All of them, from the defense minister to the nation’s top spies, have kept silent in the last few days, appearing meek and exhausted in a meeting with Putin on Monday.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
• Last month, a Czech court rejected his petition to avoid being sent to the U.S., clearing the way for the Czech justice minister to extradite him.
  — Reuters, CNN, 17 June 2024
• Lentz famously ministered to Justin Bieber and other celebrities.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
• Jim Bob made no secret of viewing the popular cable show as an opportunity to minister to the masses.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Canepa added that the measure was partly inspired by efforts in the U.K. and Japan, which have each appointed national ministers to address loneliness.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• In June, the Knesset waived a long-standing legal precedent that required the prime minister and the defense minister to sign off on West Bank settlement construction at every phase.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• His ruling sends the case to Scottish government ministers to make a final decision on the extradition.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
• Twenty-four years ago, a minister to the down-and-out of Des Moines took a mid-career leap into the unknown, moving his growing family west to become pastor for poverty outreach at a Pasadena church.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• On Monday, in what some have said is the most initiative the government has shown to address the matter, Jokowi held a meeting with ministers to discuss solutions to Jakarta’s air pollution.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Brethren assist and minister to the area churches and many assist in teaching at Subiaco Academy, an all-boys day and boarding school for high school students located adjacent to the church.
  — Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• Days after ministers in his government spoke out against Mr. Netanyahu’s leadership, the court decisions have prompted those same ministers to close ranks and show a united front.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 24 May 2024
• Last month, a tourist was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum, causing Italy’s culture minister to call for a manhunt to identify the culprit and his companion.
  — Caolán Magee, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• Sunak has asked government ministers to legally define the characteristics of the American XL Bully with the assistance of police and canine experts.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2023
• After logging all those miles, the question now is whether China will reciprocate by sending senior Chinese ministers to Washington.
  — Olivia Wang, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• As the first government minister to oversee civilian life in the West Bank, his role amounts to a recognition that Israel’s 56-year military occupation is not temporary but permanent, observers say.
  — Isabel Debre, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Alabama prison system agreed to minor changes to settle concerns that Smith's spiritual adviser would be unable to minister to him before the execution.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• In a meeting with Hispanic religious leaders before the law went into effect, Rick Roth, a Republican state representative and farmer who voted for the bill, called on the ministers to convince people to stay.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Right-wing legislators seek to change the makeup of the committee that selects judges, diminish the role of Israel’s Attorney General, and allow government ministers to act against the advice of legal counsels.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• Sturgeon is the second consecutive first minister to encounter the criminal justice system.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• Israeli President Isaac Herzog denounced calls from cabinet ministers to forcibly displace Gazans.
  — Rachel pannett, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The altered rules specify that the responsibility for approvals will be transferred to Smotrich for the duration of the current government and will apply to any government that appoints an additional minister to serve in the Defense Ministry.
  — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• Karahan’s name had been floated as a potential deputy minister to Simsek at the Treasury during a policy overhaul that began after Erdogan won a third term as president in May, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
  — Beril Akman, Bloomberg.com, 3 Feb. 2024
• Accommodation for refugees – and its cost – have been mainstay topics in Parliament and in newspaper headlines, leading ministers to start housing prospective asylum-seekers on a windowless barge.
  — Katie Marie Davies, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2024
• Amazonian bishops had proposed allowing married priests to minister to their faithful who sometimes go months at a time without Mass, but Francis shot down the proposal after an Amazonian synod in 2019.
  — Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• In July, three top generals in the Interior Ministry were arrested on embezzlement charges; the operation has been regarded as a message to the interior minister to watch himself—nobody is completely safe in this new security state.
  — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2022
• Putin ordered his emergency situations minister to organize work to help people and eliminate consequences of the disaster, the Interfax news service reported, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
  — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024