How To Use Functionary In A Sentence
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Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide.
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The lightest suspicion of what is known as clericalism, even when only a suspicion, based on anonymous and calumnious denunciation, is sufficient to condemn a functionary.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
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One sunny afternoon last month I sat drinking a glass of tea in the office of a functionary in Mus, a market town in eastern Anatolia known for producing sugar beets, tobacco and violence.
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There's a lot of crap you can say about Blanche -- and we do -- but a "functionary" of Nancy Pelosi?
DownWithTyranny!
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`Just a little accident, that's all," the functionary said.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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The grievances brought forward, amongst others that of the _salt-horse_, (a horse's hoof with the shoe on, so swore the cook, had been found in the pickle,) were treated as trifles and pooh-poohed by the functionary, "a minute gentleman with a viciously pugged nose, and a decidedly thin pair of legs.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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It was unjust and ugly because it was selective; the basic idea that some distributee must be allowed to spend some of the values that taxpayers have produced is less repugnant than the idea that some government functionary should select the distributee.
Mises Dailies
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The man has never been a child who has not been requested to take a dose of physic or bear a mustard plaster like a little captain, thereby inspiring himself with the greatest respect and admiration for the immense deglutitory capacity of that functionary, and the callosity of his epidermis.
Sea-Gift. A Novel.
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He is convinced that every time you click "send," your message goes to a clunky government keyword sniffer that, on finding any of the naughty words it's looking for, blinks red lights at some snoozing functionary's desk.
Davis Sweet: Jihad, Bomb, Nuke, Anthrax, Screw Carnivore...
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The next predictable step was to appoint from among the clan a functionary whose duty was to report on clan members who committed offences against national law.
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There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been re - duced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
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The double doors were thrown open again, and a palace functionary came in.
THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
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For doing all such activities and acting as an important functionary for the government, the monthly wages being paid to him are too meager to be taken into consideration.
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That the Spanish Ministry, in accepting the resignation of a functionary whose services they have been utilizing and valuing up to that time, leaves it perfectly well established that they do not share, and rather, on the contrary, disauthorize the criticisms tending to offend or censure the chief of a friendly State, although such criticisms had been written within the field of friendship and had reached publicity by artful and criminal means.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
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This functionary, however well disposed to my friend, could not altogether conceal his chagrin at the turn which affairs had taken, and was fain to indulge in a sarcasm or two about the propriety of every person minding his own business.
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That said, I think I am right when I talk about the 'functionary'.
From porn to Portillo | Mark Lawson
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The Secretariat , an organ operating under WFCMS, is responsible for WFCMS's functionary management.
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We must spell out what kind of functionary can be removed at any particular moment of the day or night.
CASTRO ATTACKS ABSENTEISM URGES GREATER EFFORT
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a subordinate functionary
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Finally, we referred to the transformation of the teacher's identity from that of a state "functionary" - "a word that is rarely used today, while a few years before it indicated a prestigious identity and an obsolete social-democratic,
Anarkismo.net
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Witte's life is traced from his childhood in the Caucasian borderlands of the empire as the son of a midlevel Russian functionary and the maternal grandson of a prominent and genealogically well-connected imperial family.
A Statesman For the Czar
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According to GOP party "functionary" Hugh Hewitt, the conservative white men are chickening out because YouTube and CNN have that famous liberal bias.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide.
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Check section towards defying a superintendence, obstructing state agency functionary ipso jure functus officio of, from communal security's institution being by law.
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He had the characteristic of a good functionary, that is to say, he had no mind of his own, and simply did what he was told or what he conceived to be his duty as a member of the administrative system.
Russia
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I'd be sharing decisions with the other guy, the reptile, the functionary whose usual job was to stoke the boiler and run the air and water intakes.
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The duties of this "hard-worked" functionary consist of the checking of the Parliamentary voters list of his ward, once every two years, and of acting as chief canvasser and election agent for the Ministerial candidate, who, however, is usually returned unopposed; and for these onerous duties he is rewarded by an ungrateful Government with the "beggarly" salary of �0 a year.
Chapter XXIV
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A government functionary is going to make rules about what you can get and what you can't!
Discourse.net: Truth Gets Its Boots On
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The position of Lord High Steward of England, not to be confused with the Lord Steward, a court functionary, is the first of the Great Officers of State.
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That functionary, however, had not failed, during his circumgyratory movements, to bestow a thought upon the important subject of securing the packet in question, which was seen, upon inspection, to have fallen into the most proper hands, being actually addressed to himself and Professor Rub-a-dub, in their official capacities of President and Vice-President of the Rotterdam College of
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
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The fish are being proffered—oops, offered—by a cold-hearted functionary of the New York Zoo, while the love emanates from, yes, you guessed it.
'Buck': Champion Tale of a Horse Guru
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Most of what the public sees the practitioner doing could be described as functionary activity.
RISMedia
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But they should abandon the illusion that the news manager can be dropped as an official functionary.
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The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlings -- chowkidars, bheesties, and sweepers -- appear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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No. We want a-- er -- what the deuce is it they call the functionary, Cassius?
A House-Boat on the Styx
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An on-site inspection and inquiry," breathed the unhappy young functionary.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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That functionary, however, had not failed, during his circumgyratory movement, to bestow a thought upon the important object of securing the packet in question, which was seen, upon inspection, to have fallen into the most proper hands, being actually directed to himself and Professor Rub-a-dub, in their official capacities of President and Vice-President of the Rotterdam College of Astronomy.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
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It’s not too much to say that averting war regardless of its desirability or justifiability is near the top of every State Department functionary’s list of priorities.
Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics « Isegoria
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Forming us into a row on deck, and calling our names one by one, this functionary handed to each a billet, permitting the holder to go ashore, on condition of an instant compearance at the pontifical police-office.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
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One sunny afternoon last month I sat drinking a glass of tea in the office of a functionary in Mus, a market town in eastern Anatolia known for producing sugar beets, tobacco and violence.
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About nine o'clock A.M., an important functionary, the "coiffeur," arrived.
Villette
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A few days later a senior RSS functionary was knifed to death by unknown assailants in the district.
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Tax-dodging tycoons have also angered regular folk who are already fed up with rampant graft that has put many a government functionary behind the wheel of a fancy car.