16 Metaphors for ministries

The ministry was less fortunate, a dissolution resulting in a majority for the opposition, and Tricoupi came into power.

It was doubtless a great injustice for Catholics to be compelled to support the Established Church of England; but the ministry were not prepared to go to the length which the radicals and the Irish members demanded,the complete suppression of the tithe system; in other words, "the disestablishment of the Irish Church."

Ministries, if not strangled at the birthas was the "Clean Shirt" Cabinetusually last for three years.

In the ardor of his attachment to the "peculiar institution" of getting work without pay, he is reported to have declared on a public occasion, that the British ministry were a "parcel of reptiles" and that the "English nation was fast going to the dogs."

Do not forget, gentlemen, that an English ministry, be it Tory or Whig, is always more or less aristocratic, and it is in the nature of aristocracy that it may love its country well, but indeed aristocracy more.

It would not be surprizing, brethren, if we should make an impression on your hearts (and we shall do so, indeed, if our ministry is not, as usual, a sound of empty words); it would not be surprizing if we should make some impression on the hearts of our hearers.

The Ministry of Commerce would obviously be the appropriate department, and should, in collaboration with the great commercial houses, prepare the routes which our commerce must follow in case of war.

In 1808 the ministry became warlike in spite of its despair, the first glimpse of hope being the popular rising in Spain.

To permit such liberty was either a proof that the ministry was weak altogetherwhich it was notor that its conduct on this question was weak.

He was now Earl of Chatham, and his ministry was the Chatham Ministry.

It is plain then that he but transmits; and that the Christian Ministry is a succession.

And the ministry which succeeded it had not been a year in office before the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townsend, revived the discontents in America which Lord Rockingham had appeased.

I do not look upon this as productive of consequential speaking for the opposition; on the contrary, I should expect him sooner in place, if the Ministry could be fools enough to restore weight to him, and could be ignorant that he can never hurt them so much as by being with them.

The ministry is his choice, not refuge, and yet the pulpit not his itch, but fear.

And his Ministry has ever been a benediction to the people of his respective charges.

Having resigned his Stillwater pastorate from a conviction that his ministry among red-shirted lumbermen was not a great success, he armed himself with letters from the warden of the prison and the other ministers who had served as chaplains, and, above all, with Mrs. Plausaby's written confession, and set out for Washington.

16 Metaphors for  ministries