A government functionary is going to make rules about what you can get and what you can't!. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Truth Gets Its Boots On] Reference
Most of what the public sees the practitioner doing could be described as functionary activity. From Wordnik.com. [RISMedia] Reference
That said, I think I am right when I talk about the 'functionary'. From Wordnik.com. [From porn to Portillo | Mark Lawson] Reference
We must spell out what kind of functionary can be removed at any particular moment of the day or night. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO ATTACKS ABSENTEISM URGES GREATER EFFORT] Reference
According to GOP party "functionary" Hugh Hewitt, the conservative white men are chickening out because YouTube and CNN have that famous liberal bias. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
"Certainly, honored Juge," replied the functionary. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The napkins were probably a gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
In an interview with NEWSWEEK, Burke tried to portray herself as a dutiful functionary. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman In The Middle] Reference
Inside that organization, he is a nobody — at best, a midlevel functionary in a local branch. From Wordnik.com. [An Act of Futility] Reference
That a Consul or other properly authorised functionary is required to watch over the interests of. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
The allusion to the Viceroy, a functionary unknown to the French government, also deserves notice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
But, as there were three kinds of punishment, each had its own officer and administering functionary. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Commune only ratified the former inequality between functionary and soldier, Government and governed. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Within the plant itself, too, carbon acts as functionary of the alternation between oxidation and reduction. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Whereupon M. Godefroy rushed to the Prefect, whose hand he pressed till that functionary winced with the pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
The imprisoned functionary did not at all like the expression of his eye, he quailed before it in fear and shame. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Midnight had surprised the worthy functionary while occupied in discussing it, and with his task yet unaccomplished. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
If you reach the right functionary with the right cash-filled Samsonite, the world -- Tony Montana-style -- is yours. From Wordnik.com. [Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale] Reference
He made his court to the wife of the prefect, sufficiently to flatter the functionary without disquieting the husband. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But I don't want even the smallest government functionary to pass judgment on my personal life or the color of my skin. From Wordnik.com. [Government Should Have Your Back] Reference
In 2001, as a mid-ranking party functionary, he was dispatched from party headquarters in Delhi to steer Gujarat's BJP. From Wordnik.com. [Modi's Moment] Reference
He was instantly admitted to the august presence of that high functionary, where the story was again told and verified. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
But the constraining look with which his attempt to open the gate was received by that prudent functionary, checked him. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
In this age we cannot conceive of government without such a functionary, whether administered in the name of king or president. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The late-comer presented her card of invitation to the proper functionary, and went across the enclosure toward the ladies 'salon. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
American public functionary, who said that his annual gains were 'one thousand dollars salary, besides the cheatage and stealage?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Latterly Veron has made an arrangement with Louis Napoleon, by which it has become in some sort the special organ of that functionary. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
But still, supposing her not to be a corporation, she had a right to prescribe as a functionary, holding a high dignity and situation. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Arrival of a very high functionary -- a ridiculous little old fellow in a black coat, who from his office had been listening to the row. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To conduct an important interview without the intervention of this functionary would convey to the Turks an idea of slovenly negligence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Rather than the stolid, functionary training they would get at ENA, they increasingly prefer M. B.A.s -- if they go to graduate school at all. From Wordnik.com. [Old School, New Age] Reference
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