Sentences with phrase «as functionaries»

Thus were the more or less inadequate, casual or corrupt officers of the European Myth exposed as functionaries of a social machine, rather than servants of men in their religious affairs.

That solution, she explains, has only succeeded in making everybody uncomfortable with an image of the minister as a functionary.

I know there are local churches that regard their minister as a hired man, others that regard him as a functionary to be dealt with today but happily gone elsewhere next year, and even some that get his political voting record and his children's marks in school before they issue a call.

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As Moore acknowledges in a bit of background included in the error - riddled press kit for the novel, The Statement was inspired by the case of Paul Touvier, a Vichy functionary guilty of wartime crimes, including the murder of seven Jews.

The New Testament records indicate the presence in the early communities of a particular functionary known as the teacher (didaskalos).

Religious functionaries lose some of their unique claim to power as a result of competition from secular professionals and in conjunction with a more general rise in education and values stressing individual discretion.

Or to put it in another way, it is as if a subordinate functionary of the church, who is without authority should read aloud the prescribed prayer.

I don't take it seriously as presidential election speculation, but I take it very seriously as evidence of the climate of opinion among Republican functionaries.

Or they may do it as observers of rituals actually performed by the shrine's priests and other functionaries, who guarantee ceremonial proficiency and continuity.

Whatever the original circumstances giving rise to the story, the relationship of Moses and Aaron is so presented as to define the proper status of the one type or functionary as over against and in relation to the other.

Simple schemata are as dangerous for petty functionaries in health care as in education.

Parish ministers, missionaries, secretaries of societies, teachers and professors, and in some cases, evangelists or revivalists as well as other functionaries, were all looked upon as equally engaged in the legitimate ministry of the one church.

It is obvious that within this broad context the conception of the minister practically lost its priestly dimension as traditionally conceived, and became that of a consecrated functionary, called of God, who directed the purposive activities of the visible church.

By the time last week's Baxter Mile was run in New York Ollen seemed almost as much a functionary as the starter and the timers.

The video has created a very high level of sensitivity among all the levels of functionaries and was officially endorsed by senior policy makers as the right approach for initiating breastfeeding.

However, as a result of the Rawlingses inexorable and senseless attacks on the Mahama - led NDC government, functionaries and activists of the governing party feel reluctant or have refused to mount a defense for the former first family whenever NPP loyalists make reference to the sordid past of the NDC founder and his wife.

• The NPP during their «Retail» and «Door - to - Door» campaigns will show voters booklets containing photographs of mansions, filling stations, among others, purporting to belong to some key functionaries / government appointees of the NDC and portray them as corrupt politicians who have amassed wealth and should be voted out of office.

The president at the dinner that attracted the Senate President Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Chief Justice of the Federation, Mahmud Muktar and top private sector and government functionaries from Cameroon also thanked the United Nations, UN and other international donor agencies for their various assistances to IDPs across the country just as he condoled with the families of Boko Haram victims along the Nigeria / Cameroon border.

The event was attended by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, government functionaries, representative of international organisations, Diplomatic community as well as leadership of the NDC.

This includes the top political functionaries, government officials as well as those in the highly respected positions be it public or private.

«As far as assumption goes, he was to me, at the time of his contact, still employed by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial CourAs far as assumption goes, he was to me, at the time of his contact, still employed by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Couras assumption goes, he was to me, at the time of his contact, still employed by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Couras a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Court.

The event since its inception had assembled a wide range of gospel music artists, renowned ministers of God, as such as the presence of reputable functionaries drawn from various fields who gather to worship and praise God under an atmosphere of undiluted praise.

That's just one of the rules oddities that became clear last week as the 168 members of the Republican National Committee and top party functionaries met in beachside splendor to discuss the GOP's messy search for a consensus presidential candidate.

While government is struggling to maintain the goodwill it enjoyed from Ghanaians who are fast running out of patience for the Akufo - Addo administration's inability to meet their expectations, the NPP government's plight is being worsened by day as a result of the demeaning attitude of some functionaries.

He particularly identified the sale of government vehicles to outgoing functionaries, the brouhaha surrounding the post-office residence of President Mahama, the question of a vice presidential residence, and what he described as midnight decisions of the out gone administration, as consequences of institutional lapses in the transition process.

That's one rules oddity that became clear last week as the 168 members of the Republican National Committee and top party functionaries met in beachside splendor to discuss the GOP's messy search for a consensus presidential candidate.

Other top government functionaries and community leaders that attended the stakeholders meeting include the Ebonyi State Commissioner for Border and Peace, Mr. Sylvania Nwankwegu, former Senator Ngiji Ngele, Chief Jeremia Oketah, Honourable Mathew Uguru, Honourable Earnest Henriek, the traditional rulers from both communities Eze Godwin Nwankwegu and Eze Pious Nwamgele, as well as the Chairman Abakaliki Local Government Area Ebonyi State.

So will other Liberal Democrat functionaries within the Government, such as special advisers.

«We were reliably informed that those involved in the conspiracy include some functionaries of INEC in Ondo State, top officials of the LP and the INEC Voter's Register for Ondo State through a method known as elimination by substitution.

This particular painting attracted not only international recognition but also it attracted arts enthusiasts as well as Government functionaries.

But in the Soviet version of upward mobility, the next generation of Communist Party functionaries had risen from the bottom of the proletariat, sons and daughters of the peasantry suddenly catapulted into the twentieth century, as Khrushchev himself conceded with remarkable candor.

AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job as a railroad worker, where he is taunted and bullied by supervisor Jack Warden, a union functionary appointed by the Mob.

Covered in blood and brains, President Kennedy and Jackie O. — theretofore the most important people on earth — are quickly sidelined as Secret Service agents, territorial FBI men, and a host of journalists, law enforcement, and various functionaries vie for fame, fortune, and power.

Emma Thompson has been either allowed or encouraged to painfully overact as divination professor Sibyl Trelawney, and Julie Christie's cameo as a Hogsmead tavern functionary is even briefer than her appearance in «Troy.»

A German businessman — and Nazi functionary — in Nanking when the imperial Japanese army invaded in 1937, he is credited with saving as many as 200,000 Chinese civilians.

Cassavetes plays Axel North, an AWOL soldier who takes a job as a railroad worker, where he is bullied by bigot supervisor Charles Malik (Jack Warden), a union functionary appointed by the Mob.

Anyone who appreciates British villains will take pleasure not only in Fiennes but in Jason Isaacs, as his ice - cold functionary Lucius, and Alan Rickman as Snape.

But this creates an opportunity for assorted kooky and ineffectual bit players to steal the spotlight: Christopher Meloni as the clueless adventurer who volunteers to be Linda and Emily's guide in the Colombian jungle; Randall Park as Emily's boyfriend; and especially Bashir Salahuddin, a veteran late - night comedy writer who previously played Malik on HBO's Looking, as the blasé State Department functionary forced to field Linda, Emily, and Jeffrey's panicked phone calls.

We are led to believe that Delysia is simply a featherbrained gold digger, just as we are supposed to regard Miss Pettigrew as a loveless functionary.

But none of the headaches and compromises of that picture's embattled production history were enough to quell the warmth and pluck of Yelchin's performance as Cage's loyal protégé, Milton, in which the actor did something with the lower register of his voice that I'd never heard before: Raspy and loquacious, he suddenly seemed a very old man in a very young body, an agency functionary imbued with a surfeit of soul.

But with the seemingly endless documentation he has to provide, his lack of familiarity with computers, and the condescending attitudes of the functionaries to whom he must repeat the same information in one soul - killing encounter after another, he is all but defeated from the beginning, as is his new comrade in misery, Katie (Hayley Squires).

While well - meaning progressive educators might be willing to criticize the manner in which humans are turned into dead objects that Marxists refer to as fetishized commodities, they are often loathe to consider the fact that within capitalist society, all value originates in the sphere of production and that one of the primary roles of schools is to serve as agents or functionaries of capital.

In the moist, heavy heat of July, his obsession and job meet, as spy mutates to murderer, Royalist to Republican and Jonathan from frustrated functionary to avenging father.

Unfortunately, once a woman has been objectified and turned into a functionary - someone who works - it stands to reason that there would only be a short jump for that woman to soon to be seen as an object for sex, too.

Mr. Szymczyk, who had been the director of the Kunsthalle Basel and moved to Athens in 2014 with some of his curatorial team, dismissed the idea that he was, as he put it, a «functionary» of the German state.

And I am afraid, that the affairs and the efficient management of the Centre are not safe in the hands of officers like Mr. K. K. Bhatnagar, Dr. R.K. Pachauri arid [sic] Mr. Dinesh Mehta and they had ignored that the officers have to function as a public functionaries within the parameters of the Constitution.

Many congratulations on synthesising a coherent, wide - ranging, global argument base which should, as a matter of principle, priority and moral rectitude, be urgent reading material for all Public Politicians, functionaries and policy makers globally.

most influential and salutary check upon the conduct, and security for the good conduct, Edition: current; Page: [500] of these as well as all other public functionaries: and, as below, no evidence being proposed to be received other than that which has been orally elicited in the court below, and consigned to writing, no attendance by parties or witnesses will, on this occasion, be necessary.