MINISTRY in a Sentence

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For MINISTRY, below is one of 15 sentences:
The ministry has tried to develop a management strategy this year but it has not been implemented because of scarce resources.

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 Meanings and Examples of MINISTRY
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ministry
 n.  act of serving; government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister
Classic Sentence:
1  At my home in West Virginia the process of being called to the ministry was a very interesting one.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
2  It was not long before the bishops and other church leaders began to make careful investigation of the conditions of the ministry, and they found out that I was right.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
3  Very soon public sentiment began making itself felt, in demanding a purifying of the ministry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
4  He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  Alexey Alexandrovitch was at the ministry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 32
6  Thus, hope and expectation would be kept alive; none would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
7  He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
8  The public ministry of the day proved its indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
Example Sentence:
1  The ministry has said it hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies.
2  To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people.
3  Japan's education ministry ordered the change to encourage students to tear themselves away from textbooks.
4  He immediately fired off an angry letter to his ministry colleagues.
5  He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec's threat to separate from Canada.
6  China has hit back, its foreign ministry urging the Congressional commission to wipe out its prejudice, respect the truth.
7  The ministry has tried to develop a management strategy this year but it has not been implemented because of scarce resources.