1.  Both have held ministerial positions before.

2.  All ministerial positions can be changed when Persson takes office as Prime Minister next March.

3.  David Trimble, the Protestant first minister of the Assembly, insists that the IRA has to start disarming before Sinn Fein is given ministerial positions in the Assembly.

4.  Dini eliminated three ministerial positions from the government roster, including a position for parliamentary relations and another representing Italians abroad.

5.  Five of the priests held active ministerial positions, and one had a non-ministerial role, the archdiocese said.

6.  He held ministerial positions in various Congress Party governments, most notably in agriculture.

7.  Pressure from U.S. and U.N. officials resulted in the naming of Karzai and the selection of ministerial positions.

8.  Successors to their ministerial positions were not named.

9.  Under his plan the council would become a constitutionally recognized agency of government, tasked with allocating ministerial positions evenly among the three groups.

10.  Under King Fahd and now under Abdullah, decisions are made in conjunction with senior princes who have held ministerial positions for decades, said diplomats and Saudi officials.