The minister is busy with important affairs of state.
The premier deals with important affairs of state.
Representatives of different nationalities gather in the same hall to discuss affairs of state.
It requires a long head to manage successfully the affairs of state.
He would withdraw from the affairs of state and finish out his life in Linz.
In this setting, the 24 Ming and Qing emperors divided their time between affairs of state and their families.
King Edward seemed more concerned with building Westminster Abbeythan with affairs of state. He was far more Norman than Saxon.
Mr Netanyahu insists that Sara, his third wife and mother of his two sons, keeps scrupulously out of affairs of state.
Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of H.H. Asquith, a British prime minister, told Winston Churchill that her father had talked to her about affairs of state as a child.
I'd much rather be a lady, able to own a fine house and not worry about kingship or other such affairs of state.
Other slave girls humoured him by perpetually massaging his body with ebony rollers while he attended to affairs of state and received officials and ambassadors.
The role of the Paris public prosecutor, who is appointed by presidential decree and is in charge of the biggest affairs of state, is considered to be highly political.
It is only by subjecting our failings to such a crossfire, both from within and from without, that we can remedy them and really set the affairs of state to rights.
The fresh faced Jordanian royal, at 30 the youngest queen in the world, knew the harshly conservative kingdom did not appreciate women's mingling in affairs of state that women in Saudi Arabia weren't even allowed to drive.
