Even the carabinieri guarding the prime ministerial candidate began fiddling with their mobile phones.

He will now have to choose a prime ministerial candidate and forge a coalition.

At the party meeting it was decided not to name a prime ministerial candidate amid fears it would turn the election into a presidential one.

A consensus on a prime ministerial candidate, however, was not achieved.

The party decided not to announce a prime ministerial candidate.

She said at a press conference yesterday that the ministerial committee appointed to probe alleged irregularities in the province had found concrete evidence of fraud.

The bids were reviewed by a ministerial committee and a tender evaluation committee.

Provided that high level public officials in ministries are often appointed by cabinet ministers or ministerial committees, these officials tend to follow the policies advocated by their more powerful colleagues.

Once classified as a minister, the minister also must be performing ministerial duties as his or her predominant duties.

The court ruled that the pastor could not deduct the cost of purchasing or cleaning the clothing he wore in performing his ministerial duties.

Few ministerial duties provide as great a challenge and opportunity as these funerals.

He will combine his ministerial duties with his research and clinical commitments.

Her campaign had been poor, although she felt that her prime ministerial duties and the need to appear confident limited the extent to which she could take a part.

He did so without ever achieving ministerial office or losing the widespread respect that doughty backbenchers rarely command beyond their own parish.

The first volume of his diaries was a funny, irreverent, self-deprecating account of the impotence of junior ministerial office.

We want change for our country, not ministerial office for ourselves.

For eight miserable months, they have felt overlooked and robbed of ministerial office.

There will be plenty of other reforms that they won't even think of until they have held ministerial office for a couple of years.

If you start feeling that if you lose your ministerial position - the opinion polls are sliding, my goodness!

Ministers employed by denominational agencies in a ministerial position are considered professional employees and are not protected by these laws.

If he did know, he has acted improperly and should not be holding a ministerial position.

It was, in those days, a constitutional requirement that on the first occasion that you accepted a ministerial position you would offer your constituents the chance to deliver their verdict.

This was the same as a ministerial position in later years, though that title was not used until self-government was granted in 1978.

You cannot hold a ministerial post and encourage councils to break the law.

And on top of that, his dreams of a junior ministerial post have been thwarted.

Anyone who has held a ministerial post can buy the distinctive briefcases, which are embossed with their owner's name and title in gold leaf.

You may remember her name from the time she resigned from her last ministerial post in 2004, after admitting that she had 'unwittingly' misled people about a suspected visa scam.

But he made an exception for life peerages (perhaps because he wished to be free to accept himself, if he were offered a ministerial post).

Yesterday his spokesman refused to clarify this, saying it was 'not considered to have any bearing on how he carries out his ministerial role'.

He enjoys the job, which has 'the advantages of a junior ministerial role, but without the parliamentary culpability', he chortles.

It's very difficult for me to project myself into the ministerial role.

His team could not guarantee that every junior shadow ministerial role would be replaced.

Some who knew him were willing to forgive him and welcome him back in a ministerial role, but he remained estranged from most of his family.