The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

He believed that not all learned individuals were qualified to doctor others, and while ministers took on several roles in the early years of the colony, including that of caring for the sick, they were now expected to stay out of state and civil affairs.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

Gérald-Libois writes that '.. the special meeting of the council of ministers took steps for the immediate Africanisation of the officer corps and .. named Victor Lundula, who was born in Kasai and was burgomaster of Jadotville, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armée Nationale Congolaise ( ANC ); Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu as chief of staff ; and the Belgian, Colonel Henniquiau, as chief advisor to the ANC.

He took office on April 13, and his government, composed of 20 ministers ( including eight from the PAIGC, eight from the PRS, and two from the PUSD ) was named on April 17.

The three quisling prime ministers were Georgios Tsolakoglou, the general who had signed the armistice with the Wehrmacht, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, and Ioannis Rallis, who took office when the German defeat was inevitable, and aimed primarily at combating the left-wing Resistance movement.

A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.

The bishops, resenting the favour shown by Sancho to his father's anti-clerical ministers, took advantage of this unpopularity to organize the rebellion.

The protest began with 3, 000 students in Beijing displaying their anger at the announcement of the Versailles Treaty's concessions to Japan yet rapidly took a violent turn as protesters began attacking the homes and offices of ministers who were seen as cooperating with, or in the direct pay of the Japanese.

The families of the dead soldiers and several ministers claim that the information was sold to the guerrillas and that a major betrayal took place.

The King and his ministers took refuge in the snow-covered woods and escaped harm, continuing farther north through the mountains toward Molde on Norway's west coast.

Two weeks after the election, one of the most sweeping cabinet reshuffles in Swedish history took place, with eight ministers leaving their posts.

The news took the British Government, and even some of Costello's ministers, by surprise.

From 1945 to 1947 Molotov took part in all four conferences of foreign ministers of the victorious states in World War II.

The DUP took two seats in the multi-party power-sharing executive ( Paisley, like the leaders of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin chose not to become a minister ) but those DUP members serving as ministers ( Peter Robinson and Nigel Dodds ) refused to attend meetings of the Executive Committee ( cabinet ) in protest at Sinn Féin's participation.

On hearing this story from the hunter, the two ministers took it to be a sign from God that they had selected the right place for their community and school.

One server took the part of the choir and of all the other ministers, everything was said instead of being sung, the incense and kiss of peace were omitted.

After Malcolm X's dismissal from the NOI, and hajj, an Arabic word meaning pilgrimage, to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, several " revolving ministers ," meaning ministers who took turns preaching until an official minister was secured at a particular temple, were used at Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 7 in Harlem.

Bullinger took up the post of minister of Zurich ; he soon gained oversight over the other Zurich ministers, a position which would later be known as the Zurich Antistes.

After discussions with Lloyd and senior civil servants, Macmillan took the unprecedented step of appointing two Foreign Office cabinet ministers: Home, as Foreign Secretary, in the Lords, and Edward Heath, as Lord Privy Seal and deputy Foreign Secretary, in the Commons.

Due to the lack of ordained ministers within Methodism, the Love Feast took on a life of its own, as there were few opportunities to take Communion.

While in France he met French government ministers, and Field Marshal Haig, who reportedly took great interest in his work.

Blair adopted a centrist political agenda in which cabinet ministers took managerial roles in their departments ; strategic vision was to be addressed by the Prime Minister.

A purely historical or mechanical succession of ministers, bishops or pastors would not mean ipso facto true apostolic succession in the church, Reformed tradition, following authentic Catholic tradition, distinguishes four realities which make up the true apostolic succession, symbolized, but not absolutely guaranteed, by ministerial succession.

This would mean the cancelled hearings of ministers like Mr. Schily ( Minister of the Interior ) and Mr. Steinmeier ( Minister of State of the Federal Chancellory ) will most likely take place after all.

Another complementary view is that this idea may have been used by ministers and counselors to deter aristocratic whims that would otherwise be to the detriment of the state's people.

The referendum would cause each island's president to become a governor and the ministers to become councilors.

No special titles are used for preachers or ministers that would identify them as " clergy ".

An extensional definition would be a list of all past, present and future prime ministers.

It was announced on 24 January 2006 that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would visit Fiji that April to open the China-Pacific Islands Countries Economic Development & Cooperation Forum Ministerial Conference 2006 at Sofitel Fiji Resort in Nadi, a conference of economic and trade ministers from Pacific island countries.

The Helsinki Conference was set for October 2, at which the foreign ministers would be informed of the results in the Two-plus-Four Talk.

Many of the signatories would play a prominent role in Israeli politics following independence ; Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir both served as Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi became the country's second president in 1952, and several others served as ministers.

Some ministers wanted St. Laurent to stay on and offer to form a minority government, following the logic that the popular vote had supported them and even though their Parliamentary minority was smaller than the Conservatives, the Liberals ' more recent governmental experience would make them a more effective minority.

They therefore suggested that he place the office in " commission ", meaning that a committee of five ministers would perform its functions together.

At Mantes on 9 July 1193, Philip came to terms with Richard's ministers who agreed that Philip could keep his gains and would be given some extra territories if he ceased all further aggressive actions in Normandy, along with the condition that Philip would hand back the captured territory if Richard would pay homage to Philip.

The decision was made at the V4 defense ministers ' meeting in Levoca, Slovakia, and the battlegroup would become operational and be placed on standby in the first half of 2016.

In 2009, it was determined that the G20, originally a forum of finance ministers and central bank governors, would replace the G8 as the main economic council.

During the 1960s and 1970s many people in the USA became ministers in the ULC because they believed that being a minister either would help keep them from being drafted into military service during the Vietnam War or would enable them to get income tax relief as members of the clergy.

The group, which was described as a " tight circle of monarchists ," was instructed to find a non-partisan candidate who would respect the monarchical aspects of the viceregal office and conducted extensive consultations with more than 200 people across the country, including academics, provincial premiers, current and former political party leaders, former prime ministers, and others, in order to develop a short list of candidates for the position.

Churchill informed the Queen that the Dominion prime ministers were unanimously against the marriage, and that Parliament would not approve a marriage that would be unrecognised by the Church of England unless Margaret renounced her rights to the throne.

The Druk Gyalpo decreed that henceforth sovereign power, including the power to remove government ministers and the Druk Gyalpo himself, would reside with the National Assembly.

On 8 June 2010, the EU finance ministers agreed that Estonia would be able to join the euro on 1 January 2011.

As she wrote, " Would it be wise of me to have scenes with his ( Louis XVI's ) ministers over matters on which it is practically certain the King would not support me?

He had received the support of the ministers of the Catholic crowns and the anti-Jesuit party upon a tacit understanding that he would continue the action of Clement XIV, by whose brief Dominus ac Redemptor ( 1773 ), the Society of Jesus had been pronounced dissolved.

Edward's ministers believed that the people would never accept Mrs Simpson as queen and advised against the marriage.