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Example sentences for "functionaries"

Lexicographically close words:
fumo; fun; function; functional; functionally; functionary; functioned; functioning; functionings; functionless
  1. These functionaries were essentially different in their appearance and manners.

  2. Once committed to this course of dissimulation and lying, the public functionaries render all improvements impossible; and by always sacrificing the future to the present, do incalculable mischief to the country.

  3. Another evil, not less deplorable, is the necessity of practising mutual deception, under which the public functionaries labour.

  4. They are under the control of functionaries chosen by themselves, and it happens very rarely that they are obliged to have recourse to the Russian tribunals.

  5. Since that time the Nogais have had no special governor, but are under the control of functionaries attached to the ministry of the interior, who reside in their villages.

  6. The public functionaries associate freely in Rostof, with the Cossacks and the Greek merchants, without any appearance of the haughty exclusiveness elsewhere conspicuous in their class.

  7. The Kalga's court was composed of the same functionaries as that of Bagtche Serai, and his authority extended over all the regions north of the Crimea mountains.

  8. But these disestablished functionaries may perhaps find it to their personal advantage, as well as to that of their church, to make an earlier surrender of their territorial privileges.

  9. It is better to fall into the hands of Calabria than into those of the functionaries of the Russian government.

  10. Thus during his government his influence was paramount, and inferior functionaries were satellites who obeyed his impulse, or were driven from their spheres.

  11. In transmitting this bill, Sir George Murray explained that by the clause which superseded the veto of the chief justice, it was intended to avoid a collision of opinion between the high functionaries of government.

  12. But he did not restrain with a sufficiently firm hand the crowd of subordinate functionaries whom Coningsby's example and protection had encouraged to plunder the public and to sell their good offices to suitors.

  13. It was most desirable that the crowd of subordinate public functionaries should be kept out of the House of Commons.

  14. Nobody thought of drawing a line between the few functionaries who ought to be allowed to sit in the House of Commons and the crowd of functionaries who ought to be shut out.

  15. For the neighbouring University of Cambridge always sent her highest functionaries with loyal addresses, and selected her ablest theologians to preach before the Sovereign and his splendid retinue.

  16. The multitude of subordinate functionaries ought to be excluded.

  17. The common people indeed were, if possible, more eager than the public functionaries to bring the traitors to justice.

  18. The subordinate functionaries ought to be excluded, because their admission would at once lower the character of Parliament and destroy the efficiency of every public office.

  19. A few functionaries who are at the head or near the head of the great departments of the administration ought to be admitted.

  20. In case these two functionaries disagreed, or in matters of unusual moment, a junta de guerra y hacienda, composed of the leading officials of the different branches of the central administration, was called.

  21. A few of these functionaries were appointed, but the colonists raised such a cry that little change was accomplished, and the Audiencia confined itself, in this particular, to checking abuses of the encomienda system.

  22. We withdrew from the Sultan's presence, and some of us Europeans walked through the town accompanied by functionaries of the royal household and the interpreter.

  23. Public functionaries will receive their orders for military service from their respective administrative chiefs.

  24. General and other high functionaries used to accept Chinese hospitality, etc.

  25. On Saint Andrew's Eve the Royal Standard was borne in procession from the Cathedral through the principal streets of the city, escorted by civil functionaries and followed by a band of music.

  26. All public functionaries of the State and the municipalities, not exceeding 50 years of age and not physically unfit, are obliged to take up arms in defence of the country and serve whenever they are required.

  27. Mather thought, too, that it might have something to do with the death of sundry civil functionaries of the colonies; see his Discourse concerning comets, 1682.

  28. The truth is that the temptations to which so many English functionaries yielded in the time of Mr. Vansittart were not temptations addressed to the ruling passions of Warren Hastings.

  29. It had always, he says, been customary in the East to give and receive presents; and there was, as yet, no Act of Parliament positively prohibiting English functionaries in India from profiting by this Asiatic usage.

  30. A great quantity of wealth is made by English functionaries in India; but no single functionary makes a very large fortune, and what is made is slowly, hardly, and honestly earned.

  31. The English functionaries at Fort William had as yet paid little or no attention to the internal government of Bengal.

  32. They resolved that this wholesome rule appeared to have been systematically violated by the English functionaries in Bengal.

  33. Even the town was not thought secure, and the British merchants and public functionaries made haste to crowd themselves behind the cannon of Fort St. George.

  34. He can declare war, conclude peace, appoint public functionaries or remove them, in opposition to the unanimous sense of those who sit with him in council.

  35. The English functionaries at Calcutta had already received from home strict orders not to accept presents from the native princes.

  36. Dorothy was fond of dogs of larger and more formidable breed than those which lie on modern hearth-rugs; and Henry Cromwell promised that the highest functionaries at Dublin should be set to work to procure her a fine Irish greyhound.

  37. The habits of these mercantile grandees appear to have been more profuse, luxurious, and ostentatious, than those of the high judicial and political functionaries who have succeeded them.

  38. The city functionaries were served with plate valued at one thousand two hundred pounds, but the plate off which the princess dined was of solid gold, ornamented with pearls and precious stones, and worth twenty thousand pounds.

  39. A few weeks ago, when the blackness of midnight brooded over our cause, there were some intimations, I know not whether they were well founded, that certain high functionaries were making arrangements for a flight to France; and Gen.

  40. It would seem that some of the jealous functionaries would submit to any misfortune which would destroy Beauregard's popularity.

  41. An order has been issued to borrow, buy, or impress flour, wherever found; but our political functionaries will see that it be not executed.

  42. He told me that the proposition was made by the Federal officers, and will have their connivance, if not the connivance of Federal functionaries in Washington, interested in the speculation.

  43. And I am sure poor Beauregard will get the rebuke; for all the military and civil functionaries near the government partake of something of a dislike of him.

  44. Some of our functionaries are not justly entitled to the great positions they occupy.

  45. Other quondam Confederate States functionaries have gone, or are going.

  46. I go not thither unless sent for; for in a cause like this, personal advancement, when it involves catering to the caprices of functionaries dressed in a little brief authority, should be spurned with contempt.

  47. The functionaries here might have had a six-months' supply, by wise and energetic measures.

  48. Removal from the service of all officers and civil functionaries guilty of such propaganda whose names and acts shall be communicated by the Austro-Hungarian Government to that of Serbia.

  49. The bearers deliver the corpse to the bearded functionaries at the entrance to the Tower, and these carry it within.

  50. Their coverings were removed by certain functionaries appointed for the office, and the hideous relics arranged in a row, surrounded by the weeping, shrieking, howling concourse.

  51. During these harangues, other functionaries were lining the grave throughout with rich robes of beaver-skin.

  52. In the United States all the Citizens have the Right of indicting the public Functionaries before the ordinary Tribunals.

  53. This is not evident at first sight; for those in power are apt to look upon the institution of elective functionaries as one concession, and the subjection of the elective magistrate to the judges of the land as another.

  54. In general the American functionaries are far more independent than the French civil officers, within the sphere which is prescribed to them.

  55. The communities therefore in which the secondary functionaries of the government are elected, are perforce obliged to make great use of judicial penalties as a means of administration.

  56. The substitution of paid for unpaid functionaries is of itself, in my opinion, sufficient to constitute a serious revolution.

  57. The American functionaries are, in point of fact, much more independent in the sphere of action which the law traces out for them, than any public officer in Europe.

  58. These nineteen functionaries do not in general depend upon one another.

  59. The fear of removal is the only check to these quasi offences; and as the court of sessions does not originate the town authorities, it cannot remove functionaries whom it does not appoint.

  60. The public functionaries were not universally elected, and the citizens were not all of them electors.

  61. The high station of the presidency can only be reached at an advanced period of life; and the other federal functionaries are generally men who have been favored by fortune, or distinguished in some other career.

  62. The crown-appointed functionaries had been, of course, financial officers.

  63. The control of education in Cuba was given--it hardly seems credible--into the hands of the military functionaries to administer.

  64. He shall also issue commissions to all the functionaries of the Republic.

  65. Alphonse Daudet to declare that those scenes in the book which relate to Tunis are entirely imaginary, and that he never intended to introduce any of the functionaries of that state.

  66. To see him in his black coat and white cravat, with his handsome, full, clean-shaven face, you would take him for one of the great functionaries of the Empire.

  67. Farmers, handicraft men, intellectuals and public functionaries of the lower grades: recommended by two Party members.

  68. It shall attend to the adjudication of civil, criminal and administrative suits, the discipline and punishment of public functionaries and judicial administration.


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