Sentences with phrase «functionaries in»

It's possible to take each interest group in turn and find a reason for their support of the scare (scientists in search of funding, UN functionaries in search of status etc) but nothing I've seen explains the almost total absence of a counter-movement.

The Government of Maharashtra, Nutrition Mission, ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) and BPNI (Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India) Maharashtra, jointly with UNICEF have initiated an ambitious programme to train government / NGO functionaries in the basics of IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding).

It had been the Yankees» practice in the American League playoffs against Kansas City to place one of their functionaries in the stands with a walkie - talkie, the better to advise Manager Billy Martin on the positioning of his outfielders.

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

The word nabi» came to be applied to Israelite functionaries in the tenth century, and in the later classical sense of the term, sometime during or after Amos» day.

The terrifying czarist Third Department, familiar to readers of Russian literature, never had more than forty - five staff members for its central apparatus; the Stalinist secret police would have more functionaries in its most remote provincial headquarters.

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

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.

He watched, that is, until a harried functionary in a polo shirt brusquely asked him to get off the green.

In 1905 the musings of a functionary in the Swiss patent office changed the world forever.

I'm on the road but can't avoid posting on the conviction of six scientists and a government functionary in Italy on criminal charges, with substantial prison sentences handed down, for statements made about earthquake risks not long before a moderate earthquake toppled buildings and killed 308 people in L'Aquila in 2009.

Not exact matches

Every relevant national manager and local functionary would be notified in advance, each step choreographed, the «regular shoppers» handpicked and vetted.

He has done so in part by insinuating McKesson, once just a supply - chain functionary, more deeply into the business of its customers.

On paper, the recommendations for debt relief and reduced austerity «suddenly evaporate when IMF functionaries coalesce with their ECB and the European Commission colleagues in order to impose upon our government their chosen policies,» said Mr Varoufakis.

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

Not unlike functionaries of Orwell's Ministry of Truth in 1984, with its motto «Ignorance is Strength,» many members of the environmental news media dutifully and uncritically promote the party line of the climate crusade.

We must not forget that even while Stalin's murders multiplied, Solzhenitsyn found in the Soviet prison camps «true believers» — not party functionaries, but those who believed in the party even while they confessed their nonexistent crimes.

It is my proud privilege to represent the Indian Church, the CHURCH OF NORTH INDIA at this historic International Consultation on WORLD MISSION AND THE ROLE OF KOREAN CHURCHES, and I am very grateful to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Korea and all functionaries and members of the extraordinary committee responsible for the preparation, for extending an invitation to me to participate in the Consultation.

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).

Some think it controversial that the Board says that «greater involvement by the laity in the selection of bishops could help ensure that future bishops are pastors, prophets, and men of honor, and not mere management functionaries.»

It emphasizes the difference of humans from gods and nature; it also separates religion, society and government and the functionaries within them and gives them autonomy to function according to the laws inherent in each.

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.

While in some religious communities only men may be religious functionaries, in others this role is reserved for women, and in still others both sexes are eligible for such service.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

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.

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

Every human society has institutions and functionaries whose task it is to represent this putative truth, to transmit it to each new generation, to engage in rituals that reaffirm it, and sometimes to deal (at least in words) with those who are benighted or wicked enough to deny it.

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.

At the lower end of the chronological scale, to mention only the most prominent possibilities in the classification of dual functionaries, one thinks of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, both of whom come out of priestly backgrounds (Jer.

Moses may have trembled, but the king only smiles benignly, without trembling, because the resolve of God to dwell in this place — that is what the liturgy affirms — means that God is present, always present, ally, patron, guarantor, a social 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.

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.

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.

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.

l7 Deacons continued in most areas their eleemosynary functions but many of these had been taken over by the ever - growing number of minor or more specialized clerical functionaries.

They use their ritual and institutional power to manipulate people in order to perpetuate vested interests and to maintain the dominance of ecclesiastical functionaries.

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.

After launching the manifesto, the President in the company of his wife, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, the Vice President, Kwesi Amissah - Arthur and other NDC functionaries boogied to Shatta Wale's hit song «Chop Kiss».

Functionaries around the leader monopolise the execution of power, which often leads to abuse and corruption with a subsequent growth in public discontent.

President Nana Akufo - Addo and ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, ministers of state and other government functionaries, have earlier been warned to stay away from a fictitious ceremony being planned in the name of Akwamu Traditional Council by the disputed paramount chief, Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III.

Boyle had been endorsed in March by the county Conservative Party committee to run for the post after members there were upset when the incumbent sheriff, Vincent DeMarco, testified in a case that ultimately resulted in the conviction of a party functionary, Ed Walsh.

The Ashanti Youth for Development is completely astounded by how functionaries of this government have gone to great and desperate lengths to ensure that Exton Cubic is denied the right to access its legally and rightfully acquired bauxite concession in the Tano - Offin Forest Reserve.

• J.H Mensah who was instrumental in 1969, revealed the agenda when he declared: «By the time the NPP government finishes with the fast track court trial and imprisonment of former NDC Ministers and functionaries, the NDC will be no more.»

But, and perhaps, the NPP government and functionaries, trapped in a quagmire following President Akufo Addo's «decree» of «no more purchase of new official cars» and also, the fear of looming judgment debt; find themselves torn between the devil and the deep blue sea, The aL - hAJJ can today confirm.

• In 1968, Akufo Addo's father chaired the Constitutional Committee that recommended to the NLC that a long term ban be placed on the CPP to prevent the party and its functionaries from contesting elections in GhanIn 1968, Akufo Addo's father chaired the Constitutional Committee that recommended to the NLC that a long term ban be placed on the CPP to prevent the party and its functionaries from contesting elections in Ghanin Ghana.

Addressing party functionaries at the Northern Regional Delegates» conference in Tamale on Sunday, Mr. Naabu said the party is losing ground in some areas of the region and warns the situation could prove dire for the party if it is not checked.

The commissioner also disclosed that all government functionaries and civil servants in the state has been banned by the governor from attending social events scheduled for Fridays, saying Fridays are working days.

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

Others are: the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Alhaji Ajibola Basiru, Commissioner for Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Kolapo Alimi, Chairman of the APC in the state, Prince Gboyega Famodun, top government functionaries, Osogbo sons and daughters, politicians among others.