0 in the UK, a Member of Parliament who is in charge of a government department: --
The secretary of state may not charge a royalty if the state seal is used for an educational purpose.
No fewer than sixteen trades were scheduled by the secretary of state as dangerous to health.
The requisite planning applications were ultimately quashed by the secretary of state for the environment in 1982.
All major issues will be conditional on the agreement of the secretary of state.
Political accountability and influence was provided by the secretary of state for war, who assumed the position of president of the army council, and his junior ministerial colleagues.
But, once that is done, a clearly determined secretary of state must be obeyed.
I do see myself as working for my secretary of state, not an abstraction such as the government.
At this time he was secretary of state for the colonies.
