1.   The Budget does expose the lies ministers were telling a year ago.

2.   By the weekend, the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang.

3.   In fact, it is highly unlikely that the Government would use such a drastic step and ministers have told Mr Major that politically it would have terrible consequences.

4.   Although the ministers solidly opposed the four previous proposals, some prominent ministers have told their congregations to support the gambling proposals this year.

5.   At the meeting, the defense ministers told Cohen that that they feared the stepped up counter-drug operations would only push the problem into their own countries.

6.   A minister told them about how police officers from the precinct across the street blocked the church with their parked cars and rebuffed attempts to discuss neighborhood problems cordially.

7.   According to his biographer, Alan Bullock, Bevin was horrified that spring when a French minister told him the Russians would be in Paris by August.

8.   Affirmative action policies not only help the American social fabric, but are good for business, a Boston-based minister is telling California audiences.

9.   Even after other reporters were returning, a high-level Yugoslav minister told CNN that I could not go back because they could not guarantee my security.

10.   EU agriculture ministers told the U.K. there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the measures to eliminate the disease could assure safe consumption.