ministerially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Old Nick, in his ministerially commissioned report last week, thinks only 10 or 12, at most, can make a go of two hours a day of – memorable phrase – "reasonably low-cost but high-quality broadcasting".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2010
Whether Fielding's admiration for the "glorious Woman" in whose cause he had drawn his pen was genuine, or whether—to use Johnson's convenient euphemism concerning Hooke—"he was acting only ministerially," are matters for speculation.
From Fielding by Austin Dobson
I assure your Excellency, I never had a thought of appearing upon the scene, or of taking ministerially or otherwise any step towards the two mediators.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
At the upper end of the nave was the choir, answering to the Holy Place, for all who were ministerially engaged in Divine Service.
From A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) by John Henry Blunt
I must either resign at once, or convene them ministerially and express my dissent, the reasons of which would involve my resignation.
From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby
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