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  • Let's just get anybody in to run the country - the sole qualification being they'll tel Gordon that he is a great Prime-minister.

    Seven unelected cabinet ministers Mark Reckons 2009

  • There is an important group of voters in this country who regard your ability to impress the Mail as in inverse proportion to your desirability as a Prime-minister.

    Cameron`s Tactics are Working Newmania 2007

  • In fact, "Boswell added, confidentially," I think perhaps the reason why the Prime-minister hasn't got Apollyon to hang the whole city government has been due to the fun they've got out of seeing Cerberus and the city fighting it out together.

    The Enchanted Typewriter John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • It was as though our Prime-minister had got parliamentary authority for sending a noisy member of the Opposition to Asiatic Turkey for six months There was an attempt, or an alleged attempt, of Clodius to have Pompey murdered; and there was street-fighting, so that Pompey was besieged, or pretended to be besieged, in his own house.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • A Prime-minister with us, were he as prone to reveal himself in correspondence as was Cicero with his friend Atticus, would hardly say when he went to the Treasury Chambers or what he did when he got there.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • The retiring Prime-minister cannot but hanker after the seals and the ribbons and the titles of office, even though his soul be able to rise above considerations of emolument, and there will creep into a man's mind an idea that, though reform of abuses from other sources may be impossible, if he were there once more the evil could at least be mitigated, might possibly be cured.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • In all recent times the First Lord of the Treasury has usually been Prime-minister, and his office therefore corresponds fairly enough with that which was called the office of Lord High Treasurer in earlier days.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

  • Regent's principal adviser at this time was a man quite as immoral, and also quite as able, as himself -- the Abbé Dubois, afterwards Cardinal and Prime-minister.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

  • Prime-minister, had begun to see that it would be necessary for the future to have something like a good understanding with Austria.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

  • The office was then regarded as that of First Lord of the Treasury is now; it carried with it the authority of Prime-minister.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

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