But Your Honor, the secretary of state's function is a ministerial function.

"That is, you wish me to lay aside my ministerial functions, to quit France and be an exile."

The mandate is also incompatible with a ministerial function.

They assist in ministerial functions, particularly by tending to the physical and spiritual needs of individual members.

In his ministerial functions, Hippler continued to produce films.

He retired from ministerial functions a year ago but remained a local power in Wallonia.

He resigns from his ministerial functions, but is then acquitted.

"We have a ministerial function; we're out there to pull a few out of the river as the dam's breaking."

Hammond had free permission to exercise his ministerial functions, and spent much time at Clapham in literary work.

"They serve, in that sense, very much a ministerial function," he said.