Sentences with phrase «functionaries who»

Because there is no way a car like the Cadillac CTS - V station wagon could have been endorsed by the federal functionaries who signed off on GM's bankruptcy plan.

Rather, their tragic «lost» status stems from the fact that they exist only in truncated, bowdlerized form, having been wrested from the hands of their visionary directors by studio functionaries who were too craven and bottom - line - obsessed to cut these directors some auteurist slack.

On his part, the Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the CPP, Mr. Matthew K.O. Boadu, asked the Police to watch abuse of incumbency on the part of government functionaries who also stand for election, adding that his party would not do anything to comprise the integrity of the election.

This potential has been clear even to those functionaries who keep their distance from the Church.

In his view, the position requires a mature combative rookie and articulate functionary who is capable of propagating its policies and agenda beyond the traditional voter and the message and must imminently resonate with people across the country.

Bale quotes an anonymous functionary who served under Major and Hague: «I can't think of a good thing to say about Iain.

Shannon, an often intimidating actor who has made himself almost ordinary for this role, is playing a government functionary who's torn between following through on a long - running work project and going with his wife to California to support her artistic pursuits.

He delivers great classroom - bully put - downs to Joan Allen, who plays the well - meaning functionary who's trying to make some sense of the mess: «You're in a big pile of shit, Pamela, and you don't have the shoes for it.»

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The stolen base was transported by County Stadium functionaries to Brock, the dethroned record holder, who waited at home plate for his successor.

• 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 production's conscience is the handsome, young Neet Mohan, who plays everyone else — «I am a functionary,» he announces cheerfully when we first meet him.

• 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.»

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.

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.

Deputy Governor Adebule, who was accompanied by top government functionaries and head of security agencies to the school, condemned the act, but pleaded with parents and families of the victims to cooperate with government and security agencies in ensuring prompt rescue of the victims.

The President, who was accompanied to the facility by the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, and other government functionaries, said, «I commend the governor for the strides he recorded within the first three years of governance.

The prayer meeting was graced with attendance of the newly installed Chairman of the state's Council of traditional rulers, Oba Oluwole Ademolaju who is also the Oloye of Oye - Ekiti and the Attah of Ayede - Ekiti, Oba Abdulmumini Orisagbemi and top functionaries of the Ekiti State government.

Governor Ambode, who led a symbolic walk against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Alausa, Ikeja, with top government functionaries including the Deputy Governor, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olufunmilayo Oke, wife of the Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, Attorney General, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, members of the State Executive Council, members of the House of Assembly, stakeholders in the justice sector, celebrities, students, among others, said it was time to walk the talk and ensure that all hands are on deck towards safeguarding the rights of every citizen and the most vulnerable in the society.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

A government official or functionary is an official who is involved in public administration or government, through either election, appointment, selection, or employment.

Would it have been better for Spielberg to focus instead on a Nazi functionary — an «ordinary» man who is simply following orders?

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.

Tilda Swinton — who plays a shrill functionary taken hostage by the rebels — adored The Host and sought the director out at Cannes.

Part of the explanation for the attrition of students is the will (among Capital Prep functionaries) to drive out those «hopeless» students who would only serve to drag down test scores and besmirch the school's (undeserved!)

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.

They were actresses, art critics, another painter, and several writers, including an adventurer who wrote short stories, a theater critic for Le Chat Noir who had been the second mayor of Saigon, a government functionary, and a viscount who wrote books on Voltaire and Robespierre.

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.

Now two more functionaries at the agency — Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are lawyers and a married couple — have sharply criticized the core element of climate legislation pushed by Democratic lawmakers and President Obama.

They refer to the «scientific consensus» of the 2,000 or so scientists connected to the IPCC — even though probably no more than 100 of those are true climate specialists; many are actually social scientists and government functionaries; and the list includes some skeptics of global warming who have expressed doubts about the IPCC's conclusions.

[4] Milloy originally was the back - room researcher and functionary brought in from the EOP Grpup who issued the press releases.

The archival record is thick with shocking and horrible instances of corrupt european explorers, missionary - educators, government functionaries, business people, surveyors, and politicians who seethed with hatred and and endless deeds rooted in racist notions of superiority while they conducted the massive theft of land, resources, and labour.

Functionaries are order takers who can be replaced by the Internet.

In order to guarantee our future, we need to impress upon the public that we're not functionaries but fiduciaries, advice - giving professionals who can save our clients time and money while keeping them out of court.