Sentences with phrase «servants said»

Civil servants said it was «taking longer than expected» to make the change because of delays in assessing people's eligibility for the benefit.

The king's servants said to him, «Haman is there, standing in the court.»

So his servants said to him.

And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.

The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

The servants said to him, «Do you want us then to go and gather them up?»

45 But suppose the servant says to himself, «My master is taking a long time in coming,» and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

45But if that servant says to himself, «My master is delayed in coming,» * and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, 46then that servant's master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

Mr. Emanuel Ezeka, a retired civil servant said it would appear that the judiciary is encouraging PDP to factionalize in the state, which encouraged the party to field multiple candidates during elections because members of the party knew that either way, the party would be declared winner.

A founder of the Allerton Avenue Merchant Association, DeFrancis is a US Navy vet, an actor and a long - time community servant said a party spokesman.

Speaking at a conference of police chiefs yesterday, the department's top civil servant said the revelations over the past few weeks had felt «like a hurricane».

«In the 1970s, when a civil servant say retired at sixty, they could expect to claim a pension for around twenty years.

Not exact matches

As Greenleaf himself has said, «The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant first to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served.

«We're kind of like a British civil servant,» he says.

Robert K. Greenleaf, the founder of the modern servant - leadership movement, once said: «Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well - motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.»

In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.

«A CEO today literally should recognize themselves as a servant of their company,» said Glaser.

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

«With a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years as a public servant, as an adviser, as a scholar, Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation's foremost national security leaders,» Obama said.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology,» the president said.

I stand up and say: «I'm proud to be a public servant».

«I have spent forty years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first,» Price said in the letter.

Kent M. Keith, a renowned servant leadership scholar, author, and speaker whom I often quote for his profound wisdom, said it best:

«Public servants often worry too much about the negative perception of what they would say,» Siddall says.

Some of these public servants are right in saying, «Let's do it right this time» because, remember, the rush job under Obamacare gave us what we're having to deal with today, which is the devastating system that is again lorded over us,» Palin said.

«After talking with him a bit longer, I learned of his recent focused efforts in creating a «servant leadership» environment, aka culture, that I concluded WAS the reason for high attrition in the past several months,» says Brown.

Bonney was engaged in promoting the free enterprise, anti-union position of his party, while working as a public servant, Butcher said.

«A large number of Soldiers have never heard of servant leadership,» Chambers said.

The new credit office at Canada's Public Sector Pension, which manages $ 112 billion for federal public servants, will include loan originations and other alternative debt securities, said Jessica McEachern, a PSP spokeswoman.

«I'm skeptical the projected cuts can be obtained through attrition and cutting back on paper clips,» said Kevin Milligan, economist at the University of British Columbia, who projects cutbacks to civil servant wages, benefits or pensions along possible layoffs.

That said, because he is humble, authentic, and a servant leader... I have every faith he will adapt.

Warren says, «Mr Market should be your servant instead of your master.»

This servant leader says his greatest struggle has been in letting go of the things that were always important parts of his daily routine, prior to his assuming the role of CEO.

16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

[14:11] Their messengers said to them, «We are no more than humans like you, but GOD blesses whomever He chooses from among His servants.

Justin Welby said: «In the death of Michael Scott - Joynt the Church of England has lost a faithful, hardworking and distinguished servant.»

Elizabeth Chyrum, Director of Human Rights Concern - Eritrea (HRC - E) said: «It is an insult that the legitimate patriarch of the Orthodox Church is confined to the servants» quarters in the same compound where two junior bishops live in a villa.

The angel says, «Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?»

In much the same tone as the old testament Jesus specifically said in Luke 12:47 «And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn't prepared and doesn't carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.»

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

He exercises, as the evangelicals say these days, servant leadership.

Since Proverbs 22:7 says, «The debtor is servant to the lender,» we always viewed debt as slavery.

Once when Satan came before the Lord, as very often, accusing, the LORD said to Satan, «Have you considered My servant Job?

Mat 24:48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth; Mat 24:49 and shall begin to beat his fellow - servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; Mat 24:50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, Mat 24:51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

(St. Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:) * Acts 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.

The servant then asked the master if he should pull it all out and the Master said that doing so will kill the good crops.

10 Then say to them, «This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones I have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy above them.

It saddens me, but I also ascribe to another statement Jesus said in John 15:20 - 25, «Remember what I told you: «A servant is not greater than his master.»

Rt Rev Dr Derek Browning, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: «We mark his passing with respect, and join with others in confidence in say, «Well done, good and faithful servant.»»

Paul writes in Philippians 2 that we should be like Christ, and I suppose we could say Mary and Joseph, for making themselves of no reputation, acting like a servant to everybody, and humbling themselves to the greatest extent possible.