Born the son of a minister in Houston,Texas, he learned to play saxophone at age four.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

As the head of the true church, Peter's voicing here his disgust that the virtuous Edward King, soon to become a minister, had been lost at sea.

作为真我教会的首领，彼得声明了他对一度贞洁的爱德华金，即将成为一名牧师，失去自我的唾弃。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, tried to maintain a friendly relationship with America.

英国前首相，托尼•布莱尔，曾努力维持与美国的友好关系。

英国的首相们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

It has the potential under peace time conditons to be what former Minister of the Interior, of the Economy, excuese me, said that a self-supporting dignifies poor country.

在和平的环境下，还是有潜力,成为前内务大臣，不对，是经济部长，所说的，自给自足能让一个穷国家有尊严。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

A lot of what brings me to this table and this conversation is the combination of what I do now as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church, and what I did previously as a wilderness instructor.

促使我来这个讲堂,参与大家讨论的原因,应该是由于我的工作,我现在是长老会的受命教长，曾经是野外活动的教练。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The president would have become, in effect,a prime minister, requiring the support of Congress to remain in office.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

We've seen Milton's account there of how he had attempted to reconcile, on the one hand, his obligation to become a minister and his desire, on the other hand, to become a poet.

我们读到过弥尔顿关于他如此试图妥协和解的描写，一方面，他想要成为牧师，另一方面，他又渴望着成为一名诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was led by local black leader E.D.Nixon and a young black minister, Martin Luther King,Junior.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

I don't need a prime minister.' I knew what he meant by that.

我不需要一个首相”,我知道他是什么意思。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Emperor Hirohito appointed a new prime minister and ordered him to explore the possibilities of peace.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The British foreign minister proposed a treaty that would make the forty-ninth parallel of latitude the border between the United States and British Oregon.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Somalia's Prime Minister is calling for a halt to ransom payments to pirates and kidnappers.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

In the spring of eighteen sixty-seven, the Russian minister in Washington made a surprise offer.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

A visiting Christian minister gave the mountains these biblical names in nineteen sixteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Also Friday,Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg led a national memorial service in Oslo,the capital.

VOA: special.2011.07.30

But the prime minister campaigned on a promise of a "more equal" relationship.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

This week, Britain's finance minister announced a new tax on big banks.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

In fact,his grandfather, a former prime minister, helped form the party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The president would have become, in effect,a prime minister.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Her father was a Baptist minister.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Her mother was also a Methodist minister.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

And Turkey's Prime Minister indicated he might not attend a mid-April nuclear energy summit in Washington hosted by President Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa immediately made a brief address to parliament, saying this was a very painful moment.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The president would have to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the Parliament speaker a Shi'ite.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The former French finance minister said a recovery depends on the effectiveness of policies implemented in the main economies.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

In Russia,the announcement on the nuclear arms treaty was made by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a live nationwide television statement.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Addressing fellow politicians in the House of Commons Wednesday, a somber Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to the fallen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Al-Zaidi missed Mr.Bush when he threw both shoes on December 15, during a press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12