Sentences with phrase «mere functionaries»
Police, teachers and clergy are deemed mere functionaries of oppressive institutions, suppressors of individuality.
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Some think it controversial that the Board says that «greater involvement by the laity in the selection of bishops could help ensure that future bishops are pastors, prophets, and men of honor, and not mere management functionaries.»
He loses his priestly character and becomes a mere social functionary.18
Hoovey, you see, is no mere civic functionary with a microphone — he's a scientist, a genuine seeker of knowledge.