Sentences with phrase «functionary tasked»

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.

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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.
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.»
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