Sentences with word «functionary»

Most importantly, I have read reports of top functionaries of PDP and Rivers State government either abducted by unknown gunmen or arrested by the security agents.

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.

Dr. Zanetor Agyemang Rawlings» membership as a true NDC had been at the center of discussion among party functionaries in the Korle Klottey Constituency from the very first day she made public her desire to contest the seat on the ticket of the ruling party.

However, the Election Review Committee (ERC) of the NDC, which has been tasked to unravel the reasons behind the party's defeat, has expressed reservations and «regret that a number of party functionaries and leading party members have lately taken to the media houses to air their views on party members.»

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.

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.

Checks by the Nigeria Politics Online revealed that the Benin monarch will be accompanied by some royal fathers and government functionaries from Edo state.

According to him, he has picked very reliable information from some key functionaries with the elephant family that, after accessing the chances of their» failed presidential candidate», the party will lose the elections, hence their decision to re-elect a new presidential candidate.

Some of the attention given SRLs is perhaps better spent addressing mechanisms for how behavioural transgressions by functionaries within the court system are best policed, the lack of which has been a dirty secret of the legal industry long before SRLs showed up.

Among the dignitaries at the campaign were; members of the state and national assemblies, party chieftains and other political functionaries.

In the end, this is a key functionary in the process of ending your bill problems.

He considered the sovereignty comment, which has been hyped mainly by functionaries of the opposition National Democratic Congress as defamatory, something that has incurred his outrage.

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 following mythography which encapsulates the origins of Ellaiyamman may be a good example It is a version that was sung to me by a Paraiyar religious functionary from Malaipallaiyam.23

The last few days have seen disgruntled NDC functionaries including the immediate past national chairman of the party, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, blaming the «inexperienced young handlers» of John Mahama for the party's miserable defeat.

6) has been analyzed in such a way as to make of the prophet a cult functionary whose call experience can be understood only in the terms and images of the annual festival of the enthronement of the sacral king centering in the Jerusalem temple.

Police, teachers and clergy are deemed mere functionaries of oppressive institutions, suppressors of individuality.

The real question has further to do with the possibility that the great prophets of the Old Testament lived out their careers in such associations and were in fact themselves such associated cult 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).

Presenting the IEA's position paper, Dr. Ofori Mensah called for a second look at the policy on the sale of government vehicles to outgoing functionaries.

Not many years ago, Dezsö Horváth, the longtime dean of the Schulich School of Business, found himself in the office of a high - level functionary in the Indian government.

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.

As a breastfeeding mama, you'll be getting quite used to viewing your breasts in their new functionary role as nourishment for your baby above all else.

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.

Properly speaking, it is not the church functionary who prays.

The New Testament records indicate the presence in the early communities of a particular functionary known as the teacher (didaskalos).

Even a High Commissioner like an ombudsman of human rights - a new functionary - is overseeing the operational reality of these undertakings.

Omer Pasha Latas was a brutal and corrupt Ottoman functionary hated especially by Balkan Muslims.

Some male denominational executives and ecclesiastical functionaries predict disaster.

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

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige and other government functionaries attended the event.

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

AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job as a railroad worker, where he is taunted and bullied by supervisor Jack Warden, a union functionary appointed by the Mob.

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.

Authority figures exist in this world, but they're minor functionaries within it.

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

Because, a school Board trying to save a school from closure is clearly an example of oppressive functionaries!

Robert Dapes (Connery), a cynical British mercenary, comes to the country at the request of one of country's most corrupt functionaries, General Bello (Balsam).

McGregor is Alfred Jones, an expert on fishing and a government functionary tasked against his will and his better judgment into helping a visionary Yemeni sheik achieve his dream of bringing sport fishing to the desert, and not just to help his people find a novel way to pass their time.

«Again, for the State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Funminiyi Afuye to have denied the involvement of the State government in an act over which functionaries of the government, including the Chief Security Officer were present at the police station is to say the least, shameful!

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).

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.