1.   But the justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, is against this.

2.   The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister, Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.

3.   Earlier this month the justice minister was forced to depart.

4.   The justice minister, Nikolai Fyodorov, who did not back the president at a weekend cabinet meeting, resigned yesterday.

5.   Also on Monday, Barak named Yossi Beilin, a leftist political scientist and one of the most independent thinkers in his party, to be justice minister.

6.   Also cited as possible candidates for defense were Dan Meridor, a justice minister in the last Likud government, and Ehud Olmert, the popular mayor of Jerusalem.

7.   Among those freed was the former justice minister, Nuruddin Turabi, who is widely reviled here for his harsh edicts during the Taliban era.

8.   And how could Mandela have sent his justice minister to welcome home from America the anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak, who was returning to face serious fraud charges?

9.   Anna-Maria Maio, a lawyer, said the Freedom Party justice minister, Michael Kruger, aimed to cut jobs in the justice department and courts throughout Austria.