The statistics keep changing, the series aren't the same, the functions and the roles keep altering and nothing is constant — particularly not the people who run the machine, for ministers and now senior public servants too live in a «here today gone tomorrow» world where they're no sooner settled in than they're out. (totalpolitics.com)
Paul Boothe, a former senior public servant who now is a professor at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School, chastised «amateur» deputy ministers for making a fuss over a contingency that amounts to a sliver of the total budget. (canadianbusiness.com)
I think a responsible leader, minister [or] senior public servant would not need to be advised on that» (ghanapoliticsonline.com)