Sentences with phrase «as the civil servants seek»

Political appointees are treated with suspicion, as wayfarers, as the civil servants seek to protect their own territory.

Not exact matches

Those secure in their beliefs do not, as Mr Mnuchin did, seek to de-publish studies by apolitical civil servants.

When he sought reinstatement as a Parisian civil servant — a job he had despised in younger days — the authorities disqualified him for moral turpitude.

He pulls no punches: the Audit Commission (now effectively abolished), the NAO and ministers who seek evidence to support predetermined policies («spray - on evidence», as civil servants call it) are dismissed for closing their minds to the evidence of failed methods or the possibility of different approaches.