1.   A government minister said that there would be an inquiry.

2.   A government minister said there had been a mixup, and that another unidentified vessel was the slave ship.

3.   A memo by the local government minister, Hilary Armstrong, admitted that Labour faced huge losses.

4.   A new government minister is now responsible for the armed forces.

5.   Government ministers have legislative, executive and judicial functions.

6.   Government ministers rely on the conclusions from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment prior to the field trials.

7.   Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures.

8.   It became clear that the relevant government ministers were deliberately hindering the progress of the necessary bill.

9.   Jumblatt, now a government minister, planted trees along the mountain roads during the war.