Sentences with phrase «become functionaries»

Such questions are particularly appropriate in a troubling cultural context in which teachers often feel that they have become functionaries under the surveillance of an administrative bureaucracy (no matter how well - intentioned).

Not exact matches

They become small functionaries in a larger scheme of things, technicians who view all of life in a mechanical fashion.

Some years ago it became apparent to some large corporations that they had succeeded so well in fashioning the company man into symmetrical functionaries of an order that a danger was recognized.

He need not be slapped into uncorrelated fragments of function; he need not become a weary and unstructured functionary of a vague, busy moralism; he need not see the visions and energies and focused loyalty of his calling run, shallowly like spilled water, down a multitude of slopes.

He loses his priestly character and becomes a mere social functionary.18

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.

He deftly removed the taint of having been a functionary in the Franco regime by becoming Spain's ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1977.

«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 Court.

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.

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.

Projects in the programme include Penthouse 4C, a half - size replica of the Barbican Estate's largest apartment reconstructed in the central foyer, confusing notions of private and public space whilst providing an iconic stage for workshops and performances; Unmoored, a weather station installed on the roof beaming data to screens throughout the centre to transform the Barbican into an airship in motion; meanwhile the Barbican's lower level cloakroom will become the Ministry of Measurement whose bureaucratic functionaries will send members of the public scurrying off with instructions to recover data from around the centre and bring it back to be filed and processed.