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Example sentences for "prime minister"

  • Choiseul, and even given him three departments; which is a much heavier burden than that which he would have to support as Prime Minister, because the latter has only to oversee the details executed by the Secretaries of State.

  • He did not desire the post of prime minister.

  • Grévy to procure him a prime minister, and if possible a cabinet, reported the failure of their mission.

  • The Duc de Broglie, an excellent man, grandson of Madame de Staël, was made President MacMahon's prime minister.

  • Dupin, who had been President of the Chamber of Deputies, was made President of the Council (or prime minister); but the real head of the Government and Minister for Foreign Affairs was Alphonse de Lamartine.

  • Prime Minister of the progressive and enlightened State of Mohiniwala, and honorary or corresponding member of more learned and scientific societies than will ever do any good in this world or the next.

  • Prime Minister of no small State, a man accustomed to command, going out to save life.

  • Indeed it was said in the early months of the war by the most able of his political opponents that it passed the wit of man to suggest any other statesman at that juncture for the office of Prime Minister.

  • And when the war is won, and Lord Haldane's position has been publicly and nobly vindicated by Lord Haig, Mr. Lloyd George as Prime Minister of England has a portfolio for Mr. Austen Chamberlain and another for Dr.

  • There is now no Prime Minister: there is only an agent for government in the House of Commons[1063].

  • Yet a noble lord says, Superior respondeat, which is laying down a rule for a prime minister; whereas the noble Duke was against any.

  • In his Dictionary, premier is only given as an adjective, and prime minister is not given at all.

  • I was exceedingly mortified, and cried; for, being a Prime Minister's son, I had firmly believed all the flattery with which I had been assured that my parts were capable of anything.

  • We besieged and took Bharatpur in order to rescue the young prince, our ally, from his uncle, who had forcibly assumed the office of prime minister to his nephew.

  • Her father was now raised from the station of high treasurer to that of prime minister.

  • He who holds an office worth twenty rupees a month commonly gives his sons an education equal to that of a prime minister.

  • General Tsolakoglou became the first 'Quisling' Prime Minister of Greece.

  • Prime Minister; but he refusing peremptorily to leave his cell and the Fathers of the Oratory, the place was conferred upon Cardinal Mazarin.

  • This was a cruel blow to the Cardinal, who ever since the decease of the late King had been recognised as Prime Minister of France; and the consequences were equally disastrous.

  • I have made a reduction, too, upon what he drew from his place of prime minister, and that of the post.

  • I counselled Frejus, therefore, to have all his arrangements ready with the King, in order to fill up the Regent's place of prime minister when it should become vacant.

  • Duc, there present, to charge himself with everything, and accept the post of prime minister M.

  • On the passage with regard to Ireland I noted: "He means that he would go on as Prime Minister if he could see his way to carry the larger Local Government (Ireland) scheme, and not otherwise.

  • Amongst congratulations on his election came one from the Prime Minister at Antananarivo, rejoicing that the threatened freedom of Madagascar would again have his support, and transmitting the Red Book just named.

  • He is just going to disentangle himself from the Prussian administration altogether, and will resign the post as Prime Minister, so that he will only remain Chancellor of the Empire.

  • The matter was adjourned, as matters always are adjourned when the Prime Minister is against the Cabinet.

  • I am certain there was not a man there but would have said, "If there is to be an Irish Parliament, Redmond must be Prime Minister, and his personality will give that Parliament its best possible chance.

  • For support there was sent to him his brother, then a youth of twenty-one, and feeling ran so strong against the two that the Prime Minister of New South Wales (Sir Henry Parkes) proposed their expulsion from the colony.

  • Narrow, domineering, and obstinate, he was a difficult colleague for anyone; and for a Prime Minister with so easy a temper as Mr. Asquith he was not a colleague but a master.

  • Bratianu, Prime Minister of Rumania, and to M.

  • Such was the character I endeavoured to depict in describing the triumph, the troubles, and the failure of my Prime Minister.

  • As that was written when he was too young, so was the other when he was too old,--too old for work of that nature, though not too old to be Prime Minister.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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