Sentences with phrase «functionary known»

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

Not exact matches

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 seems to me that vision caters to the pastor's ego and makes all of his «followers» regress to being «functionaries» for the «mission» or «goal» or «vision» rather than helping them grow into virtue, and community, and humanity (the good part of our human - ness, you know, the unique individuals that God specifically designed?).

• 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.»

«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.

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.

«We were reliably informed that those involved in the conspiracy include some functionaries of INEC in Ondo State, top officials of the LP and the INEC Voter's Register for Ondo State through a method known as elimination by substitution.

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.

We know there will be efforts in the future to convert our schools into low - level thinking factories and our teachers into low - skilled, low - paid bureaucratic 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).