1. Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.

2. The finance minister will continue to mastermind Poland's economic reform.

3. Trujillo held office as finance minister.

4. The finance minister backtracked on his decision.

5. The French finance minister is heir to a tradition of central control that goes back to Louis XIV's minister,[http:///finance minister.html] Colbert.

6. The new finance minister was educated at Oxford and is as traditional as they come.

7. The new finance minister seems loth to cut income tax.

8. The finance minister found himself in hot water over his business interests.

9. The finance minister must weigh up the benefits of a tax cut versus those of increased public spending.

10. The Finance Minister has renewed his call for lower interest rates.

11. He has been fatally undermined by his own finance minister.

12. A former Finance Minister and five senior civil servants are accused of fraud.

13. His finance minister was busy answering charges of bribery.

14. Hashimoto served as finance minister from 1989 to 1991.

15. The Finance Minister inadvertently revealed budget secrets to reporters.

16. Kubo is slated to become Japan's next finance minister.

17. Landry, the former finance minister and deputy premier, also vowed to fight to preserve Quebec's culture and language.

18. Socialist Franco Reviglio, previously budget minister, was made finance minister.

19. The finance minister said now was the time for winning over greater interest in the stock exchange.

20. Mr Bolona, the new finance minister, is a former head of the institute's economics department.

21. According to Cadilhe, the then Finance Minister, the deficit was entirely explicable in terms of the need to meet interest payments.

22. There are two other candidates in the field, finance minister Albert Reynolds and foreign minister Gerard Collins.

23. The board of governors consists of the finance minister from each member state.

24. Kubo succeeds as finance minister Sakigake Party head Masayoshi Takemura.

25. Former finance minister Boris Fyodorov, who represents minority investors, was reelected to the board.

26. The criticism was merely a warm-up for what is being prepared for the finance minister.

27. Following the scandal, he was relieved of his post as deputy finance minister.

28. The corruption scandal has claimed yet another casualty: the Finance Minister, who was forced to resign last night.

29. And economic policy now has clearer direction since Mihaly Kupa was appointed finance minister and made economics supremo.

30. Perhaps the clearest indication of this was the difficulty he encountered in filling the job of finance minister in his new cabinet.

1. Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.

2. The finance minister will continue to mastermind Poland's economic reform.

31. When Cardoso began his program as finance minister in 1994, inflation was running at 5, 000 percent annually.

32. Under Article 112 the Finance Minister must approve all supplementary expenditure.

33. The Finance Minister post was one of the coveted cabinet jobs.

34. The 59-year-old former banker said he will be succeeded as chancellor and party chairman by Finance Minister Viktor Klima.

35. The newly appointed finance minister, Wataru Kubo,[http:///finance minister.html] is expected to deflect opposition criticism over the housing lender bailout.

36. Whether as finance minister or prime minister, Mr Keating will still have plenty to do.

37. The Finance Minister warned that there would be no increase in public spending in the 1991 budget.

38. The finance minister, Hans Eichel, then came out in favour of the euro's potential for appreciation.

39. Brazilian Finance Minister Mantega September proposed a "rate war".

40. Such uncertainties should worry a prudent African finance minister.

41. The finance minister is a veterinarian.

42. Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was pressured not to quit office yesterday.

43. But for Italy's finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, good news also no news.

44. According to India's finance minister, ethanol is " a crime against humanity . "

45. He resigned as finance minister only weeks before the election and stood against big-business interests.

46. Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced on Monday that the government and opposition parties had reached a deal to pass an important finance bill.

47. In parliament last week the Finance Minister came under heavy pressure to resign.

48. "What he is saying is probably right, but as finance minister, he shouldn't keep repeating it," said Keio University political science professor Yasunori Sone.

49. German Finance Minister says U.S. will remain in the future status of the main reserve currency.

50. In February's budget the finance minister cut duties on cold-storage equipment and allowed Indian companies to borrow abroad to pay for it.

51. Yet Mr Reinfeldt 's pony - tailed finance minister, Anders Borg, can also claim much credit.

52. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has reshuffled his cabinet but left the key post of finance minister unchanged.

53. On June 10 th Brazil's finance minister said the country was interested in bonds worth $ 10 billion.

54. Twenty-five years ago Paul Keating, the country's treasurer (finance minister), declared that if Australia failed to reform it would become a banana republic.

55. He dispatched Thierry Breton, his finance minister, to talk to other big shareholders.

56. Zoellick is a former US trade representative; Strauss-Kahn was once France's finance minister.

57. And to hear anything in America comparable to the know-nothing diatribes of Germany's finance minister you have to listen to, well, Republicans.

58. A courteous and scholarly former finance minister who launched reforms in 1991 that unshackled India's mixed economy, he has been an effective envoy for India.

59. The plan comes after Finance Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai, in his budget speech, unveiled programmes to provide opportunities to over 250,000 youths.

60. The father pulled the Dower husband Lord once to be appointed English finance minister.

61. Shortly before she began speaking, French Finance Minister Francois Baroin told a conference in Paris that it was the ECB's responsibility to sustain activity in the currency bloc.

62. In his budget speech to parliament, the Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said the security forces who were prepared to lay down their lives should know they had the support of parliament.

63. According to Gordon Brown, Britain's finance minister, another 20 countries could qualify for debt cancellation if they meet targets for good governance and corruption-fighting.

64. "THE tiger is under grave threat," India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, intoned at one point in his budget speech on February 29th.

65. The other one is Singapore's finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is chairman of the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee.

66. The head of the South African Planning Commission, former Finance Minister Manuel, welcomed the report.

66. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

67. Eyes blink away the former Finance Minister Kaya Sun Hing away in the final.

68. Peer Steinbr ü ck , the German finance minister , a special booby prize for premature triumphalism.

69. She said she would bring her experience as a “lawyer, business leader, finance minister and a woman” to the role.

70. In 2008, just months into the job as the first female finance minister of France, Christine Lagarde used her powers to bring to an end a court battle that had run for years.

71. Mrs von der Leyen is meeting the finance minister on May 9 th.

72. Britain's Finance Minister Alistair Darling said that he would be flexible in reaching a solution with Iceland, suggesting scope for a face-saving compromise for both sides.