Sentences with phrase «functionaries with»

The normal daily use of the terms described the political, religious, and economic structures and functionaries with which people had to deal.

Hoovey, you see, is no mere civic functionary with a microphone — he's a scientist, a genuine seeker of knowledge.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Chance, it seemed, brought two important functionaries of the court into the prison with Joseph.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

Former President Jerry John Rawlings» hope of igniting another verbal diarrhea contest with functionaries of the National Democratic Congress ahead of the crucial November polls has suffered a big blow following a decision by party leaders to, henceforth, disregard his tantrums.

Moreover, its state functionaries through pliable media have whipped up anti-Americanism by «constantly feeding false narratives about the US, along with India and Israel, «conspiring» to «ultimately dismember Pakistan» and capture «Pakistan's nuclear weapons» (pp.33 - 34).

With them gone, the Duma has a larger share of loyal party functionaries.

Does he really think that someone with a severe alcohol addiction will suddenly see the light when threatened by a functionary from the DWP.

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.

• 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.»

For the first time, major party lists were filled with easy to control party functionaries and public servants, instead of the usual business figures.

According to him, there is no way they will sit aloof while they allow some functionaries of the past government to go away with their loot.

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.

Maggie Haberman's report this morning that Basile was mulling a run for Morahan's seat kicked the already - high functioning GOP rumor mill into high gear, with insiders speculating that if Ed Cox's most loyal functionary was willing to jump ship that he might know something the rest of us don't.

Today Labour sides with remote EU functionaries and well - renumerated Human Rights lawyers...

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 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.

Bugri Naabu has been at loggerheads with some high profile party functionaries including the Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisa Djaba, mainly attributed to what they termed his uncompromising and unyielding character.

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.

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.

So much for our stint with the claims department, though: abruptly dropping Ortiz's soulful functionary, the narrative completely shifts to Helen.

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.

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.

The story that Glorious 39 weaves about this family is a complex one of events that seem to revolve around Anna, including the family's involvement with a shadowy government functionary (Jeremy Northam) and the discovery of a trove of 78 - rpm records that contain, rather than the music listed on the labels, secret recordings of conversations related to pro- and anti-Hitler appeasement advocates.

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).

Eddie Mannix is the name of an actual studio functionary from those halcyon days, even if the Mannix here and there are and were two different quantities, but the rest of the star - studded cast are clever simulacrums and composites with credible but fake names.

Now he wants to drag Linda, a department - store HR functionary, into the void with him.

Every meeting with a functionary of the empire is a confusing thicket of procedural language and polite discourse, apologies and excuses that end up leading nowhere.

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.

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.

COPENHAGEN — Yvo de Boer, the chief United Nations functionary managing talks on a new climate treaty, signaled the state of affairs on Tuesday by carrying an orange - and - white life ring with him into the midday news conference.

Now that President Obama and other heads of state have left Paris after a round of announcements and events, thousands of diplomats and functionaries — pestered by lobbyists, campaigners and journalists — are getting on with the grunt work of the 21st Conference of the Parties, which is aiming to improve on the ineffectual 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and replace a problematic subsequent agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.

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.

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.