| 单词 | functionary |
| 例句 | It was almost dusk when I was led up to the top floor of this stately building whose halls had always been filled with shuffling white functionaries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Melvin Butler was progressive for his time and place, or maybe he was just a functionary carrying out his duty. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was even a former Conservative functionary who had taken refuge in the revolt to escape a judgment for misappropriation of funds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For the next five minutes, the eyes of the presiding judge, the jury, and every functionary of the court are glued to the main doors. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was recruited to do this job, not by Kyril Montana, but rather by some other higher-up undercover police functionaries who had decided Montana’s approach to the whole affair was much too conservative. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Each functionary had his own role to play in granting whatever wishes the king requested. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We do have something in common: both of us are supposed to be invisible, both of us are functionaries. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately above it, hidden from visitors’ eyes, sat a priestly functionary, who provided the god’s voice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As one group of highly placed religious functionaries to another, don’t do this to us! 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Finally, we were escorted down the hall by a nervous little functionary, who kept checking his watch and motioning for us to hurry along. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of it came from poorly paid state functionaries whose livelihoods depended on using police and administrative authority to extract cash from upstart capitalists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What’s more, here was a way for Hoover, a deskbound functionary, to cast himself as a dashing figure—a crusader for the modern scientific age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A castrated man; especially, one of those who were employed as harem attendants or functionaries in certain Oriental courts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Whenever he referred to him in his speeches he was careful to strip him of any human attributes and present him as an abstract functionary in some larger scheme. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Years earlier, mommy scariest killed three religious functionaries who were trying to perform an exorcism on her, a splatterfest seen briefly and which led to her being locked up in an Italian institution. | 'The Devil Inside': ?The Devil Inside,? A Fake Documentary - Review 2012-01-06T20:26:38Z Huie and Stone expertly attack their functionary roles, and Wright, who also voices Sonya’s doorman, performs his duties with outsized flair. 'Washer/Dryer' needs less softener, more starch 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In 1945 he was hospitalized for “battle fatigue” — often a euphemism for a breakdown — and after recovering he stayed on in Europe past the end of the war, chasing Nazi functionaries. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z Whoever he may be, this unexplained use of a supportive male functionary is one of the greatest yet most characteristic oddities of Balanchine ballet theater. 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z He's supposedly a minor government functionary, but according to his brother, he's "the most indispensable man in the country," keeping all the secrets of the British Empire in his massive brain. NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a novel about Sherlock Homes' brother (and it's good!) 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The museum’s functionaries—from floor-polishing janitors to pertinacious scholars and fantastically skilled restorers—emerge as the film’s heroes. How We Look When We Look at a Painting 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The two damaged busts were recovered by the functionaries of the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums of Damascus in the Museum of Palmyra, after the liberation from the Islamic State group armed forces. UNESCO-backed exhibit in Rome features 3 destroyed treasures 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Supercilious bureaucrats and functionaries have control over him. A spellbinding descent into chaos: ‘The Trial’ 2013-04-11T18:36:42Z He started out as a garage mechanic, became a welfare agency functionary, then moved to printing, proofreading and eventually journalism. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s not exactly Wall Street functionary — the dark shirts and abstract print ties speak to a different cinematographic stereotype — but it’s pretty close to prosperous burgher. In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z And even as the film provokes outrage at the sloppiness and corner-cutting of the oil company functionaries, it also induces a sense of awe. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z There isn’t, for example, much to be said for Abraham Walkowitz, a doggedly faithful Stieglitz gallery functionary who had a thing for Isadora Duncan and drew — maladroitly — her scantily draped figure countless times. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z An elaborate and probably unnecessary prologue finds Scotland Yard functionaries viewing a film that asks a dark question: “What Is Wrong With the Youth of England?” Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z Servants continue to bicker and a Nazi party functionary, Drygalski, snoops on Katharina, determined to catch her in breach of one or more petty regulations. Prussia goes west 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I presented all my evidence, which got the once-over by a series of cemetery functionaries. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Or at least step back, take a break and — as Goya prompted us to do — laugh at the absurd state of the world and the functionaries who rule and govern us. Review: In Goya’s Shadow, Andrea Fraser’s Videos Skewer Social Institutions 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The setting perfectly captured the desolation of the marginalised movie functionary. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable – review 2013-07-17T22:30:01Z He was a serious civil servant and postal employee, not just some functionary in the post office who also wrote novels. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z As the body count is tabulated on screen — and by dutiful functionaries in a relatively low-tech command-and-control center — the relationships among the students come to the fore. Movie Review: ‘Battle Royale,’ Directed by Kinji Fukasaku 2012-05-24T23:38:04Z It’s the doubters, the haters, the risk-averse functionaries who are too enthralled by the old system to listen to voices of change. Review: ‘Pure Genius,’ a High-Tech Doctor Drama, Does Little to Disrupt 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Every so often, a group of handpicked journalists gets the equivalent of a tap on the shoulder from a White House functionary. White House background briefings: Good journalism or anonymous government spin? The part is not as colourful or as nuanced as Driver’s, but – given he’s a functionary – Gleeson certainly makes an impression. The Force Awakens: is the acting strong in this one? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Altan introduces us to the fellow human beings he meets in a prison where flowers are forbidden but casual cruelty flourishes among the guards, functionaries and doctors who follow their orders with indifference. Review | As Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is rearrested, his prison memoir is as urgent as ever 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “Give us our own segregated unit like the Negroes, and we’ll fight harder than any soldier you’ve got,” Mike says to a government functionary. Review: ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical History Lesson About Interned Japanese-Americans 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Anna, a demur, fortyish functionary in a nameless government agency, has been called into the office of her superior, known here only as The Director. A Stage Triumph in Chicago: The Letters — Menacing Head Games in Stalin’s Russia 2013-01-29T15:30:58Z “But on the other hand, the functionaries at film funds only talk about the viewership figures.” Stupid German Tricks, Wearing Thin on TV 2013-01-30T15:16:49Z And so we see that he’s a functionary and barely even a human being.” How to Craft an Opening Line to Electrify a Theater Audience 2012-10-28T04:10:05Z There are some men in Better Things, of course, but they are relegated to the minor roles usually reserved for women in comedy’s boys’ club: romantic interests and co-workers, shopkeepers and other such functionaries. Better Things and Atlanta: FX delivers fresh new comedy voices 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z He even dubs the much more lauded directors "minor functionaries". TV highlights 02/08/2012 2012-08-01T19:29:01Z The soldiers felt no more responsible, personally, for killing the Jewish civilians than did servile Auschwitz functionaries. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z If the London functionary and member of the Royal Society conducted no laboratory experiments, he may be said to have conducted a running dissection of his own mind. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Confessing that David Atlee Phillips used that pseudonym would connect the agency—or at least one of its most important functionaries—with Oswald. The man who wanted JFK killed 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z This time, the functionaries in the gray flannel suits were women. Perspective | The message from the Paris runways is simple: Buy a suit and get to work 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z One legacy of Napoleon’s civil service reforms: Parisian functionaries were trained never to throw away a piece of paper. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Staged in mid-September at the capital’s Central Youth Hall, glimmering for the occasion, it was attended by government functionaries, festival delegates and representatives from various embassies. In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z "They spent a a lot of time listening to the music together on iPods," said the royal functionary, speaking on condition of anonymity. William, Kate thank everyone for their kindness 2011-04-28T12:25:10Z Many of Menzel’s contemporaries fled after the Prague Spring, ending up in Paris or Hollywood, but Menzel chose to stay, negotiating cleverly with censorship and officialdom, often using comedy to outsmart the government functionaries. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The irony of Ayalon’s inflammatory language — an echo of Hannah Arendt’s line about Nazi functionaries — is as pointed as it is jarring. ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z For a mid-budget production, the effects in “Cabin in the Woods” get pretty delirious, as the universes of the trapped teens and bored functionaries collide with disastrous consequences. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z At the center of it all is the French high commissioner, a government functionary in tinted glasses and an ice cream suit referred to only by his last name, which is De Roller. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “Who else but a jealous rival would have seen to it that ‘Figaro’ closed so promptly, that Mozart got only a pittance from the Emperor as a minor functionary, any number of things.” Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The only way to understand these characters is as functionaries within the evolving modes of capitalism. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z He saw himself a minor functionary, just obeying orders and doing his best. Gitta Sereny led us through our own darkness 2012-06-19T14:57:19Z Another comic high is when a minor functionary who’s in charge of carting away Westley’s dead body is looking for a wheelbarrow. William Goldman’s Strange, Sad, Captivating Children’s Book About a Girl and Her Blanket 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z But the figure seen in this manuscript, from the late 10th or early 11th century, seems lost in her own private ecstasy rather than a functionary of the religious service. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In standard Armory sagas, Pach is a functionary who shouldered the job of insuring work and shipping it to New York. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z What does he do but befriend the functionary in charge of spare parts? Review | Lionel Davidson’s ‘Kolymsky Heights’ may contain the greatest chase scene ever 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The vassals are corporate functionaries, capturing the opera’s events on their smartphones. Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z Even before the phrase “the genius of the system” crept into academic jargon, historians depicted Fleming as nothing more than a competent functionary for a strong studio, MGM. Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z The tyrant is at last brought down by the tribunes — not heroes, mere functionaries, “akin to the much-maligned professional politicians of democratic congresses and parliaments everywhere. … It is they who are the city’s real saviors.” What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Another friend, Lev Lebedinsky, suggests that low-level functionaries simply wanted it to advance their careers, and forced Shostakovich to capitulate under the influence of alcohol. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But he’s also not meaningfully aware of how, as a functionary of colonialism, he’s part of the problem. ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review: An Aestheticized Fable of Colonialism 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The film of tomorrow won’t be made by functionaries of cinema but by artists for whom the shoot will constitute a formidable and exalted adventure. The Truffaut Essays That Clear Up Misguided Notions of Auteurism 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z In this contentious political season, the show suggests a kind of radically moderate unity ticket of revolutionary and functionary. ‘Game of Thrones’: Tyrion, Daenerys and the Art of the Deal 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z This 1836 work — in which a witless fop is assumed to be a powerful state functionary by corrupt politicians in the provinces — infuses scathing satire with giddy surrealism. A Giddy ‘Government Inspector,’ Restaged by the Red Bull Theater 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z But for all its importance, Mr. Menasse mused in 2010, he didn’t really know much about how the European Union functioned, or for that matter, about the functionaries who ran it. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Der Führer looks like any other high-level functionary of the business or political realms, seeking an outlet for repressed emotion. Heinrich Himmler, family man: Why “The Decent One” is the most haunting documentary I’ve ever seen 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The people van Gogh rendered on canvas — the provincial French functionaries, doctors, barmaids and farmers immortalized on museum walls — are brought to uncanny life, with the voices of professional actors, some of them well known. Review: ‘Loving Vincent’ Paints van Gogh in His Own Images 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “Why don’t I just film some other guy?” a functionary offers to Julia, not so helpfully. Review: The ‘Glory’ of a Good Deed (and Its Fallout) 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z No functionary, least of all the Democratic president of a country with a government proudly founded on the separation between Church and State, should show up at such an affair in an official capacity. Faith-fueled forces of hatred: Obama’s religion speech was troubling — but not for the reasons the right alleges 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z After all, Wolf had commanded respect among functionaries of the East German regime and enjoyed privileges as a result. Christa Wolf wins Thomas Mann literature prize 2010-10-25T16:56:00Z K’s guilt is more and more obvious to the functionaries. A spellbinding descent into chaos: ‘The Trial’ 2013-04-11T18:36:42Z And Stewart, whose somewhat functionary character carries the serio-comic point, locates an internal mournful pulse that touchingly lands by the fade-out. Looking for love at Unicorns 'n Things? The screwball rom-com 'Past Time' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In life, however, Höfgen plays Faust, the weak, tempted one, while the part of Mephistopheles is taken by the Nazi state and its functionaries. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z During World War II, she worked on behalf of the Jewish people as a functionary in the British Mandate of Palestine. Who was Golda Meir? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The dispatch of the relatively low-level functionary sends two signals, Mr. Atkinson believes. Shoigu’s North Korea trip signals Russian desperation, U.S. says 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The party, not the government, dictates policy and the foreign minister is essentially a functionary. China’s sharp-tongued foreign minister is ousted, but his combative style is expected to continue 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z "I don't think this is going to end soon. This will go on until both sides get fatigued - or one side gains dominance," says a senior government functionary in Imphal, who refused to be named. Manipur: Fears grow over Indian state on brink of civil war 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Many aspects of the “civilizing mission,” whether carried out by missionaries or government functionaries, were believed to benefit the conquering nation and its citizens as much as to help the “savage” inhabitants of foreign lands. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Two weeks earlier, Atiq Ahmad had petitioned the Indian Supreme Court for protection, saying there was an “open, direct and immediate threat to his life” from state functionaries of Uttar Pradesh, according to media reports. Former Indian lawmaker, brother fatally shot live on TV 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z "Earth must be set on fire under the feet of any functionary from Kyiv," he wrote. Ukraine war: Who are Russia's war bloggers and why are they popular? 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Yet, the temptation toward secrecy is ever present among public officials and government functionaries. Legislature builds a fortress of secrecy 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The men promptly hung up, so Navalny switched to a savvier approach — he impersonated a Kremlin functionary asking for a report as to why the poisoning failed. 'Navalny' wins the Oscar, and director Daniel Roher blasts Putin and the war in Ukraine 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z In 1941, a pair of hawkish State Department functionaries apparently celebrated the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, so certain were they that the attack would push the United States toward war. Review | The real classified documents scandal is larger than any ex-president 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “It’s important to know that in our government there are no functionaries like García Luna,” the president said last November. Trial in New York has Mexico riveted as jury contemplates fate of former Mexican security chief 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Most of Mr. Ryan’s targets were low-level guards and functionaries, but he also went after relatively high-level targets. Allan A. Ryan, Dogged Pursuer of Nazi Collaborators, Dies at 77 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Last week Zelenskiy responded to reports of official corruption, 11 months into the war, by firing more than a dozen functionaries. Ukraine's Zelenskiy: More changes coming to fight graft in government 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z It would be naive to think the Russian president or his most senior functionaries are likely to appear as defendants in a court of law anytime soon. Opinion | How to bring Putin and his henchmen to justice 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z The government functionaries overseeing the licensing of dreams cannot fathom how someone of Aziza’s social strata could have purchased a precious first-class wish. Review | What Egyptians wish for 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Only minor functionaries have so far been brought in by the authorities. Beirut blast protesters say judiciary targets them not officials 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Without evidence of a specific act of homicide by a named camp functionary, prosecution was essentially impossible. Opinion | In latest death camp case, German court gets the biggest question right 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “It is unimaginable that a high-level functionary would have stepped in and blocked a broad federal law that applied to every agency,” he said. How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z As a low-level party functionary, he joined in, apparently reluctantly, and helped pack off several colleagues for “reeducation.” China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who ruled after Tiananmen, dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The government of Hun Sen, the world’s longest-serving prime minister and a former functionary for the murderous Khmer Rouge, has been tied to systemic corruption and the erasure of human rights. They Were Surrogates. Now They Must Raise the Children. 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z With investigating Judge Tarek Bitar hamstrung, judicial sources say the additional judge would have the power to release detainees, which could include the port's former customs chief, one of the functionaries detained. Beirut blast protesters say judiciary targets them not officials 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z This ruling created huge obstacles to the successful prosecution of camp functionaries, especially because the German statute of limitations had long tolled on all Nazi-era crimes with the exception of homicide. Opinion | In latest death camp case, German court gets the biggest question right 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “That information is mine. You work for me,” he thundered at the functionary. Retired Times investigative reporter Jerry Seper leaves towering legacy 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z A decade later, the link is dead; Davis is a functionary at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona; and I'm still keeping an eye on AFRICOM. “What’s the US military doing in Africa?”: What U.S. Africa Command doesn’t want you to know 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Other new Standing Committee members include Cai Qi, the Beijing party secretary, and Ding Xuexiang, a career party functionary who is regarded as Xi’s “alter ego” or chief of staff. China’s Xi expands powers, promotes allies 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z The purge netted thousands of Chinese officials and Party functionaries and was carried out under the guise of countering corruption, an endemic problem in China. Former Chinese leader removed from Party congress 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Surrounded by deferential functionaries, Mr. Xi may become more prone to swaggering oversteps. ‘Uncle Xi’ to Exalted Ruler: China’s Leader Embodies His Authoritarian Era 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z And yet plenty of the former president’s functionaries have yet to be heard from. Column: Tell-all Trumpists — you should have come clean long ago 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Unlike most party functionaries, Mr. Gorbachev made it a practice to spend time with workers. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Just as government bureaucracy has expanded over the centuries, so has the White House staff, which under Abraham Lincoln numbered a handful of private secretaries and a few minor functionaries. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z “The prosecution considers there to be enough evidence for high functionaries of the Iranian government to have to provide explanations,” he said. Mossad Sheds New Light on Argentina Terrorist Attacks in 1990s 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z These functionaries would do any kind of business, no matter how unseemly, rather than do the most fundamental thing: balance sensible budgets in the name of academia. Perspective | College football was betrayed by the adults who were supposed to protect it 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Etchecolatz wrote his memoir, appeared on TV shows to confront accusers and mingled openly with past functionaries of the dictatorship, including his former boss, Gen. Ramón Camps, whose 25-year sentence also was put aside. Miguel Etchecolatz, enforcer of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War,’ dies at 93 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Zhang began his legal career as a functionary of a Beijing court, proud to serve the Communist revolution. Zhang Sizhi, Lawyer Who Defended Chinese Dissidents, Dies at 94 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Eichmann went to the gallows insisting that he was a mere functionary following orders, denying responsibility for the crimes of which he had been found guilty. Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Critics argued that government functionaries who were not accountable to voters were issuing regulations whose costs outweighed their benefits. E.P.A. Ruling Is Milestone in Long Pushback to Regulation of Business 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The Taliban and local functionaries said that they did not expect to find more survivors. Relief Efforts Intensify in Afghanistan After Devastating Earthquake 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But it is not comforting to know that the only thing standing between America being a democratic nation and a fully formed tyranny is a few functionaries failing to follow his orders. The ghost of Watergate looms over Jan. 6 hearings: Will there be accountability this time? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Mandel’s writing on bureaucracy recalls the functionaries in the movie “Brazil,” the dwarves of Gringotts in the “Harry Potter” series and the government employees in the TV series “Counterpart.” Review: Emily St. John Mandel gets back to the future 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “If the city doesn’t … then it’s open season on public records. Any official or functionary can start destroying records.” Demands for answers over Durkan’s, Best’s deleted texts 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Some city functionary has taped a paper on the wall with the number to call for the key in off hours, which in this case is anytime before 8 p.m. Kyiv’s question: Where to hide if war roars in? 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Govt functionaries, opposition leaders, armed forces, judiciary all were targeted by these phone tappings. Pegasus: India parliament opens amid furore over Pegasus 'lies' 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z There were a number of instances in which both presidents issued insane and illegal orders with some functionaries eagerly signing on while others blocked and tackled to prevent anyone from carrying it out. The ghost of Watergate looms over Jan. 6 hearings: Will there be accountability this time? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z The time wasted by me, the pharmacists, the nurses and probably some insurance functionaries is astounding and probably both a cause and a symptom of the high cost of medical care. Perspective | Writing about America’s health-care labyrinth didn’t shield me from its absurdity 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z “Obviously, the Taliban leaders and mid-ranking functionaries do not want to risk all by bringing their families into a country that many Afghans are eager to leave.” The Taliban Have Staffing Issues. They Are Looking for Help in Pakistan. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z That’s not a medical term, but a Catholic term; Hoag doctors discovered that it opened the door for church functionaries to interfere with the physicians’ relationships with their patients. Column: Hoag hospital finally extricates itself from the heavy hand of Catholic healthcare 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is now merely a functionary of the government in Beijing. Column: Democracy is dying in Hong Kong. But why should the rest of us care? 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Tree-loving Forest Service functionary Harry Crane has given up on life. Starting over: These audiobooks show it’s never too late to begin again 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z On the other hand, the usefulness of candid advice doesn’t vary, whether the advice given is a federal functionary or a private citizen. Perspective | Trump is right: Former presidents can assert executive privilege 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Ultimately, it would take seven days, two trips to Kabul and a nerve rattling marathon of negotiations with novice and jumpy Taliban functionaries before the team returned home to Kyiv. A Nervy Trip to Kabul: How Ukraine Negotiated With the Taliban and Rescued 96 Afghans 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z And now Attorney General Merrick Garland is failing to do his, at peril of joining the list of graying government functionaries who apparently think an agency reputation is more important than a girl’s body. Perspective | Larry Nassar is in jail. Why isn’t everyone who ignored his crimes? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z He called for a United Nations-invoked trial on the order of the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders and functionaries at the end of World War II. North Korean suppression of religion bad and getting worse, U.S. panel says 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z If she’s successful, it would mark a stunning turnaround in a saga that saw her go from being a relatively anonymous government functionary to a criminal defendant and national butt of jokes. Former ‘Bridgegate’ villain seeks political resurrection 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The Beltway is packed with long-term residents — advisers, functionaries, think tank experts and lobbyists. Opinion | The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Mostly, I found myself awed by the sheer number of faces we get to see parading past his coffin — workers, military, functionaries. Review: For his return to the movies he chose 'State Funeral,' one that has everything 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But few had ever bothered to get inside the mind of the shady functionary who swindled the public garbage fund. Spain Turns to Corruption Rehab for Officials Who Can’t Stop Stealing 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z All the new "director of SafeSport" did was to serve as the new functionary who shuttled messages to the chief executive for disposition, at his sole discretion. U.S. Olympic Committee’s controversial abuse investigator fails upward — to the federal courts 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Republicans are now primed to pressure local officials, election functionaries, county canvassers, state and federal lawmakers, and others to overturn free and fair results based on fantasy fraud allegations. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy’s stunning — if not surprising — act of cowardice 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z "The problem here is that the public functionaries wanted control over the drug trade." Has Honduras become a 'narco-state'? 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Familiarity with the labyrinthine thought processes of the French functionary was clearly needed. The Entangling, Ever-Extending Labyrinth of French Lockdowns 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z They are what college sports are about — not these greedy-mean functionaries lining up at their convention buffets. Perspective | The financial burden on NCAA sports wears wingtips, not sneakers 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The protruding balconies are eyes, above which looms an oversize braincase of office space intended for Communist Party functionaries who would guide the economy. The Haunted House of Soviets Gets a New Life 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z With the transformation of the GOP, those lawmakers, officials and functionaries who did their jobs forthrightly in 2020 may be replaced by 2024 with Republicans committed to the stolen election myth. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy’s stunning — if not surprising — act of cowardice 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z In every corner of the region, Bouazizi’s story of earning roughly £2 a day to feed a family of eight, and being defeated by disrespectful functionaries, resonated widely. 10 years on, the Arab spring's explosive rage and dashed dreams 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z France, as one former prime minister, Georges Clemenceau, observed, “is an extremely fertile country: You plant functionaries and taxes grow.” The Entangling, Ever-Extending Labyrinth of French Lockdowns 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Dinkins paid his dues as a Democratic functionary while earning a law degree from Brooklyn Law School, and then went into private practice. NYC’s first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, has died 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z There the party functionary O’Brien paints the future for the protagonist Winston Smith. Column: Republicans have destroyed the idea of the 'loyal opposition' — and eroded democracy 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Several senior functionaries, including doctors on the country’s coronavirus task force, resigned from the government. Protests turn to celebrations as Peru’s interim president offers resignation 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Futawatari is a career functionary, in other words: an invisible man. Review: Bureaucracy noir? Japanese novellas wring soulful suspense out of cop office politics 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In public, he exhibits a kind of punctilious blandness, with a voice that rarely rises above the dispassionate tone of a functionary behind the desk at a Department of Motor Vehicles office. Georgia’s Close Elections Sent Republicans After a Republican 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The current top functionary for neoliberalism and the presidential candidate for a united front against neofascism. Defeat Trump first — then push Biden to the left 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z To pursue a legal course our prosecutors had a problem — “there was no clear legal theory for charging anyone higher up the chain of command … beyond low-level grunts and functionaries.” To commemorate 75 years since World War II, consider these 3 books that are relevant today 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “The place of women in the church is not just as functionaries...Women’s advice is very important.” Pope Francis names six women to Vatican council in historic shift 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The expulsions followed a decision by the Trump administration in February to designate China’s five pre-eminent state-run news organizations as foreign government functionaries, subject to rules similar to those that apply to diplomatic missions. China Announces New Retaliation Against U.S. News Outlets 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z And it must “significantly increase support for and collaboration with community functionaries” during moderation. Wikimedia is writing new policies to fight Wikipedia harassment 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z In February, the State Department designated the five main state-run news organizations in the United States as foreign government functionaries. U.S. Hits Back at China With New Visa Restrictions on Journalists 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z “But the state spends its time buying luxurious cars for ministers, functionaries and parliamentarians. It is therefore not surprising that everything concerning the national heritage is abandoned.” 'Our heritage is abandoned': burning of Haitian church fuels anger at politicians 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z A day before China’s announcement, the United States designated five Chinese state-run news organizations as official foreign government functionaries, subject to similar rules as diplomats stationed in the United States. Trump Administration Considers Punishing Chinese News Organizations 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. Presidential ‘tweets’ on the free press 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The dismissals of the provincial and city party chiefs reflected a move against functionaries of a higher political level. China Ousts 2 Party Officials Amid Outrage About Coronavirus Response 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They behave like the functionaries of an authoritarian political system in which words have no meaning and actions have no consequences, at least for the powerful. Republicans have turned the impeachment trial into a dangerous sham | Andrew Gawthorpe 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z While it’s unlikely the duke and duchess will embrace a royal functionary role in Canada, they hired Article, a boutique Toronto firm to build their independent website, SussexRoyal.com and show the world their new image. ‘Not a halfway house’: Canadians voice second thoughts on royal residents 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Then there are the individual functionaries who do the work of physically enacting the Trump regime’s violence and other cruelty. Christmas in the Age of Trump: We can't let fascism conquer the holiday Psych! 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The list of those the institute believes should be prosecuted for the deaths is classified, but includes employees directly responsible for abuse, and functionaries in the communist system. Thirty years on, will the guilty pay for horror of Ceaușescu orphanages? 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Eventually, space on the square became scarce, and high-ranking functionaries were instead cremated and their ashes placed inside the wall itself. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But Billingslea’s other claims at the hearing, suggesting he was merely a bureaucratic functionary relaying decisions up the chain of command, only intensified the criticism from officials he dealt with at the time. Top human rights post goes vacant as Trump nominee confronts links to post-9/11 torture program 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Like thousands of other functionaries and businessmen, he was brought before a tribunal to determine how actively he had supported Hitler’s regime. Father’s Nazi Past Overtakes German Business Guru 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Results released by the national elections commission on Monday show all the parliament’s 110 seats won by former government functionaries, diplomats and members of pro-government parties. Belarus election results: An opposition-free parliament 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In a moment of doubt, Yevgeny Kopot, a Prigozhin functionary who appears to play a coordinating role for operations in different African countries, sent a text message to a colleague in Madagascar in January. How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z With alternative locations drying up, some U.N. functionaries started to worry. 5 New York Buildings That Changed American History 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Far beyond the Beltway this baseball postseason, there was a notion that Nats fans are mostly K Street lobbyists and lawyers, Deep State functionaries or fat cats in the media-political industrial complex. For the Nationals and their fans, a parade worth the wait 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z One Kvartal 95 sketch from the period made fun of the brutality of the riot police; in another, Zelensky played a psychiatric patient who is recruited by a government functionary to go after demonstrators. How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z From lowly functionaries to president and prime minister, government offices are distributed by sect, and a sectarian civil war from 1975 to 1990 killed as many as a quarter million people. Lebanon Protests Unite Sects in Demanding New Government 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Eggleston said that defying a subpoena was sometimes possible for high-profile figures, but was especially difficult for functionaries and other career employees. Trump’s Impeachment Blockade Crumbles as Witnesses Agree to Talk 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Benedict Wong shows up as comic relief, delightful in a film that has no use for him beyond his purely functionary capacity as tension-breaker. Ang Lee puts Will Smith through a digital wringer in Gemini Man 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z With a primary election seemingly off the table for now, Netanyahu is talking about convening a Likud functionary body to stipulate he’s the party’s sole candidate for prime minister. Israel’s Gideon Saar challenges lengthy Netanyahu Likud rule 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z With a primary election seemingly off the table for now, Netanyahu is talking about convening a Likud functionary body to stipulate he’s the party’s sole candidate for prime minister. Israel’s Gideon Saar challenges lengthy Netanyahu Likud rule 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Stola is guilty simply of being a scholar and a thinker, rather than a functionary. Poland’s Ruling Party Puts an Extraordinary Museum of Polish-Jewish History into Limbo 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z On offer are roles as contract delivery drivers, warehouse workers, coders and corporate functionaries in the surrounding headquarters towers, and positions in the company’s 18 tech hubs around the country. Thousands line up in Seattle for jobs at Amazon, which has thousands on offer 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z So when I read a recent New York Times op-ed calling for the public shaming of the “midlevel functionaries who make the system run,” I squirmed in my seat. Opinion | I can no longer justify being a part of Trump’s ‘Complacent State.’ So I’m resigning. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Instead, kleptocrats and incompetents are replaced by sycophants and functionaries — the latter, ironically, even more capable of dismantling effective governance. Review | The missteps and misdeeds of Trump’s Cabinet 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous; more dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Happy Fourth of July: Is this really the America we want? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Morsi, an American-trained engineer, was a Brotherhood functionary who became the movement’s candidate only after a more charismatic leader was disqualified. Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi collapses in court, dies while facing trial 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z J.A.f.D. board members took their seats in a row on a stage as party politicians and functionaries applauded. The New German Anti-Semitism 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z When asked about how he got residency in Haiti, the report said the player replied, “The Yankees contacted a Haitian functionary who make it all happen.” MLB teams’ involvement with Cuban players under Justice Department scrutiny 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z And she has sometimes acted more like an active office-seeker than party functionary. Trump loyalist who insulted McCain worries Republicans now that she leads Arizona GOP 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The superstructure of Obama administration functionaries who see him as the most established of the establishment brand names? Clinton-era politics refuses to die. Joe Biden is its zombie that staggers on | Hamilton Nolan 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile the summary punishment of plant operatives and midlevel functionaries, exculpating Soviet brass, ranks among its “final show trials,” Higginbotham writes. ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ reveals the nuclear disaster's untold story 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Rather, he thumbed his nose at the museum’s brass — “all elites,” in his sour opinion — and hung naive paintings of flowers wrought by his father, a mid-level bank functionary. - The Washington Post 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Anyone from the lowest to the highest could be subjected to the most horrific tortures and executions on the order of the king or the pope or their functionaries. Opinion: The strongmen are back. And we have no idea how to confront them. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z During her five years in the job she put 68 high-level functionaries on trial, including 14 government ministers or ex-ministers and 53 deputies from both houses of the Romanian parliament. Corruption fighter tipped as Europe's first prosecutor 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Holocaust survivor Primo Levi said: “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” Put yourself in Shamima Begum’s shoes before you damn her out of hand | Sonia Sodha 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z George Washington was scarcely back at Mount Vernon before the electors became mere functionaries for a mechanism stacked against the popular vote. Florida editorial roundup 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z “This is a great loss for all fans of comic movies around the world,” Mr. Zhang said, sounding not at all like the stereotype of a Communist Party functionary. Global Trade Tensions Boil Over at Staid W.T.O. Forum 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Every Tuesday, media outlets receive their orders — print this, retract that, glorify this one, lie about that one — from functionaries relaying instructions from the Communist Party Politburo. Opinion | The selfless courage of this year’s Press Freedom Award winners is an inspiration — and a reminder 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z At least some of those compliments are due to a functionary change in how the state is working to introduce a wider variety of people to the outdoors. South Dakota groups emphasize recruiting diverse hunters 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z I wonder how many of us would be functionaries in the wrong circumstances. Put yourself in Shamima Begum’s shoes before you damn her out of hand | Sonia Sodha 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Protesters caught stone throwing at soldiers and police — often identified through video recordings of demonstrations — are usually accused of attempting to murder government functionaries, a charge that invokes long imprisonment if convicted. Stone throwers face different fates across the globe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Government functionaries tell her Andy’s case is a delicate matter and must be handled with caution according to established policy, and no publicity. ‘Viper Club’: Susan Sarandon brings grace, heartbreaking power to hostage drama 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Mandiwal puts it all down to a training course he attended designed to rewire headteachers from faceless functionaries into inspirational leaders, delivering high quality education to young Indians whose lives depend on it. Turning the page: how India's state schools are being revitalised 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “It is not a question of appointing functionaries to deal with religious issues, but of finding authentic shepherds,” he wrote. Pope Francis Asks Chinese Catholics to Trust His Deal With Government 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Not everyone is convinced that he was a Kremlin functionary. Billionaire Backer of Maria Butina Had Russian Security Ties 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z One of his drawings depicts a man undergoing the strappado while functionaries from the Inquisition – paper and quill in hand – question him. Master of gore: the violent, shocking genius of Jusepe de Ribera 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z This makes the work of a Trump national security functionary sound pretty dreary, and no doubt it is. Opinion | Trump’s foreign policy has devolved into chaos 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z No doubt there were functionaries around Mussolini who believed the Italian trains had never been so punctual. The madness is pouring out of the White House now, for all to see | Richard Wolffe 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He’s mass murderer as bureaucrat, a functionary, he claims, just following orders. ‘Operation Finale’: Evil speaks in well-made Nazi drama 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z If Cohen was the outside man, Weisselberg has been the insider: a functionary whom Trump trusted to handle his company’s bills and his charity’s donations. ‘He can’t get rid of any of this’: Trump’s wall of secrecy erodes amid growing legal challenges 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z “The military and other errant state functionaries that are complicit in violating the law and eroding human rights and dignity should account for their action,” it added. Rights of detained Ugandan lawmaker 'blatantly violated' says report 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z After Mr. Xi came to power in 2012 and installed a hard-line party functionary to run Xinjiang, the drive to root out dissent here accelerated. Star Scholar Disappears as Crackdown Engulfs Western China 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z “He was a key functionary without whom mass-murder operations could not be carried out.” The Painstaking Hunt for War Criminals in the United States 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z It was in 1999, in a chaotic and floundering post-Soviet Russia, that Putin was plucked from relative obscurity as a KGB functionary to assume first the post of prime minister and then the presidency. In Helsinki, Putin displays the political skills he has honed since his days as a KGB agent 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s indicative of an entire sinister attitude: The athletes are valued less than the functionaries. Perspective | The USOC needs a leader who cares about athletes more than expense accounts 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The other workers, the engineers and functionaries, have either been duped or don’t want to speak out, for fear of losing their jobs. Looking for Life on a Flat Earth 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Yet the scale and horror of Stalin’s gulag broke that prohibition, opening up the opportunity for a “new generation of vory to collaborate with dishonest party functionaries when they felt it was in their interest”. Inside Vladimir Putin’s “mafia state” 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In the film, a functionary of the Spanish government waits at a remote South American outpost for new orders. Indie Focus: Summer sneaks plus 'Zama,' 'Disobedience,' and 'Duck Butter' 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Nobody lingered on their resumes in terrorism, which ranged from serving as low-level functionaries in jihadi networks to ordering beheadings. 'We have four generations of former terrorists here today': Rehabilitating extremists in Indonesia 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Fariñas also recalled how, after graduation, Mr. Díaz-Canel became a teacher and party functionary at his university, joining a nationwide campaign to fight “negative tendencies” in Cuba. Who Is Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s New President? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Fariñas also recalled how, after graduation, Díaz-Canel became a teacher and party functionary at his university, joining a nationwide campaign to fight “negative tendencies” in Cuba. Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s new president, seen as both hard-liner and progressive 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Few Cubans and outside experts expect a major transformation in Cuban governance under the leadership of Diaz-Canel, a relatively low-key party functionary who lacks the revolutionary pedigree of the Castro brothers. Miguel Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as Cuba's president 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Iraq’s judicial assembly line has relentlessly churned out terrorism convictions since the battlefield victories over the Islamic State last year led to the capture of thousands of fighters, functionaries and family members. A 10-Minute Trial, a Death Sentence: Iraqi Justice for ISIS Suspects 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z He pointed, rather, to how “party functionaries and bureaucrats transformed themselves in a matter of months from nomenklatura yes-men to glib practitioners of pluralist party politics”. Beware the chameleon strongmen of Europe | Natalie Nougayrède 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z He moved from one prominent job to another — including provincial posts where he developed a reputation as an effective and loyal functionary. Who Is Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s New President? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Bush gave Mr. Bolton a recess appointment, sending him to the United Nations, where he jousted with diplomats and functionaries to overhaul the organization and block moves he thought undermined American sovereignty. In John Bolton, Trump Finds a Fellow Political Blowtorch. Will Foreign Policy Burn? 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z After her candidacy was obstructed—the vote was dominated by Communist Party functionaries—Mai Khoi said she would do everything in her power to inspire young people to run in the 2021 election. Mai Khoi’s dissenting voice 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z There, staffers were functionaries or lawyers, and many of his advisers were outside the company — rival business leaders, media figures and bankers. ‘Tired of the wait game’: White House stabilizers gone, Trump calling his own shots 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z There, staffers were functionaries or lawyers, and many of his advisers were outside the company – rival business leaders, media figures and bankers. ‘Tired of the wait game’: White House stabilizers gone, Trump calling his own shots 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z A year ago it was a term known mostly among academics to describe the vast array of federal departments and the unelected functionaries who run them. Trump’s New Judicial Litmus Test: Shrinking ‘the Administrative State’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “The ruling regime is guilty. Every bureaucrat dreams of stealing like Putin. Every state functionary treats people like garbage.” For Putin, deadly mall fire eclipses diplomatic feud with West 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The memo said that foreign nationals could serve in minor roles — for example as “functionaries” handling data — but could not involve themselves in significant campaign decisions or provide high-level analysis or strategy. Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The memo said that foreign nationals could serve in minor roles – for example as “functionaries” handling data – but could not involve themselves in significant campaign decisions or provide high-level analysis or strategy. Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise US campaigns 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z "This is really about the ideological addiction that afflicts a handful of legislators, a few White House functionaries and maybe even Trump himself," he wrote. Veterans Affairs chief, once a Trump favorite, fights for his job over ethical lapses 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Making this pronouncement is officious Lord Nooth, the governor of the area's spiffy bronze age town, who's played by Hiddleston like a foppish, money-hungry Roman provincial functionary with a truly eccentric accent. The gently amusing "Early Man" showcases Nick Park's offbeat humor 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Many lower-ranking SPD functionaries in particular would prefer the embattled party to recharge in the opposition. Schulz Says He Won’t Enter German Coalition Government 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Cullum is particularly fine as a friendless functionary whose longing to advance in the organization allows him to brook agonizing indignities. Can government overreach be funny? Antaeus looks for laughs in 'The Hothouse' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z State functionaries continued to file memos, write inventories in big ledgers and demand written orders from superiors before taking any action. How the people of Mosul subverted Isis 'apartheid' 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Silk is a minor bureaucratic functionary in a mysterious office in Berlin. The less we know about Counterpart’s alternate universes, the better 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z This article's writer might enjoy some books on Ancient China, where it was common practice for the Imperial Court to only promote corrupt functionaries. The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistle-Blower 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z As far the functionaries and sundry apparatchiks who lead US government agencies, they are big girls and boys and can look after themselves. F.B.I. Director Wants to Move Forward, but the President Is Making His Job Harder 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Medicine is in short supply; some guards are corrupt; corporate goons and federal functionaries turn up the pressure to make the problem — that is, sick immigrants — “go away.” At Seattle’s Azeotrope, Robert Schenkkan’s ‘Building the Wall’ asks hard questions about Trump’s America 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In August, prosecutors took 18 non-gang members involved in creating the original 2012 truce, mostly low-level functionaries and government officials, to trial on charges of criminal conspiracy and smuggling banned goods into prisons. ‘They Will Have to Answer to Us’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z More important, decades of polling have found that Americans of all stripes would prefer that the president be chosen directly by the people and not by 538 party functionaries six weeks after Election Day. Opinion | Let the People Pick the President 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Second, gun laws are especially toothless when government functionaries fall down on the job. Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama using Texas tragedy to advance agenda 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Other important considerations include personal contacts with Nazi functionaries, appearances at political events, publication in Nazi periodicals and the denunciation of co-workers. Neurologists' Role in Nazi "Racial Hygiene" Only Now Comes to Light 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z As long as there are innocents in the world, my bets are on yes — writers, from Plato to Hannah Arendt, have wrestled with the banality of evil and how functionaries become accessories to murder. At Seattle’s Azeotrope, Robert Schenkkan’s ‘Building the Wall’ asks hard questions about Trump’s America 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The dialogues involves current North Korean government functionaries, but only former officials or academic experts on the American side. How to talk to the world's most secretive country 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It was “undated,” “not signed by Hamilton” and “was drafted by an unknown Senate functionary.” ‘Lonely Scholar With Unusual Ideas’ Defends Trump, Igniting Legal Storm 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Nikolai Gogol continues to be one of the funniest gallows-humor writers in history — he threw comic elbows at everyone from bureaucratic functionaries to bartenders to oblivious aristocrats. This season’s Seattle stage performance picks 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Today, the youngest suspects are 90 years old, and most were low-level Nazi functionaries: guards, cooks, medics, telephone operators and the like. The last Nazi hunters 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Shorn of its tragedy and reduced to something more like farce, “Darkness at Noon” becomes an instruction manual for understanding the psychology of the toadying functionaries who infest the Trump administration. Must they have so little dignity? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Quechua environmental monitors and four congressmen and -women had found Shanshococha contaminated with oil, but some months later other government functionaries visited and discovered it had been drained and no longer existed. $1 billion to clean up the oil in Peru’s northern Amazon 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Shorn of its tragedy and reduced to something more like farce, Darkness at Noon becomes an instruction manual for understanding the psychology of the toadying functionaries who infest the Trump administration. Must they have so little dignity? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Facing bankruptcy, and furious at the dismissive, preemptory attitudes of Stark’s functionaries, Toomes decides to keep the tech he’s already salvaged, and go into business for himself. Spider-Man: Homecoming keeps the action small and the stakes personal 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z And at Shangri-La, China didn’t even send any senior leaders, merely what Washington wonks call “barbarian handlers”: lower-level functionaries whose job is merely to parrot their government’s line. Will China fill the vacuum left by America? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “They were both slaughtered,” an Islamic State functionary informed her, Ziab said. She escaped Palmyra twice after Islamic State came to town. But her husband never made it out alive. 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “There is no political will to tackle this problem because what journalists investigate and report on is uncomfortable for many public functionaries,” said Luis Knapp, an attorney at Article 19. What it's like to report in one of the world's deadliest places for journalists 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Worry, but not yet alarm, permeated the cosmopolitan archipelago of new art’s creators, functionaries, and fans. The Whitney Biennial’s Political Mood 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Most of these legislators are Communist Party members and functionaries. Pomp and Pride at People’s Congress in Beijing 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “I don’t think this was just some low-level functionary pressing a key on a keyboard,” said Matthew Dresden, a China international property lawyer at Harris Bricken in Seattle, who examined the case. The day of Trump toilets and condoms in China may have just ended. Here's why that's controversial 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Hence the state attorneys general rise to check the president and his functionaries. Opinion | Revolt of the attorneys general 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z And, frankly, maybe some in the Washington press corps should spend less time sitting in briefing rooms being spoon-fed information by various spokespersons and agency functionaries. Editorials from around New York 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In the end, the 442 voting members – a group of party functionaries, including state party chairs, activists, donors and some elected officials – will decide. 'Hanging in the balance': Democrats set to elect new leader after fierce contest 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z After a months-long national campaign, the chairmanship will be decided by 447 voting members – party functionaries, including state party chairs, activists, donors and elected officials – in a ballroom at the Atlanta Convention Center on Saturday. DNC chair election: Tom Perez, Keith Ellison head race to lead Democrats 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Dispatched to the scene of the accident as President Jimmy Carter’s personal envoy, Mr. Denton was transformed overnight from a faceless government functionary into a very visible expert spokesman. Harold R. Denton, Voice of Comfort at Three Mile Island, Dies at 80 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z A bored-looking functionary, who was not happy to have this posting, droned, reading a form without looking at me. Resistance is futile: That clever Drumpf tweet might be your last 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Russia’s official version of the second world war is sacred and not open to debate, so what followed was a hysteria whipped up by state functionaries and a loyalist media. I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump | Alexey Kovalev 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Hassan Rouhani, though the current president and also a protégé, is too cautious and, as a former intelligence officer, too much a plodding functionary, to defy the establishment alone. After Rafsanjani 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Officials say the “national supervisory commission” will target graft and dereliction of duty from lowly functionaries to top government figures, with powers to interrogate and detain suspects, freeze assets and, in some cases, render... China Rolls Out New Graft Watchdog 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z But Matheson said that fact "does not transform them into lesser functionaries." U.S. appeals court rejects SEC's use of administrative law judges 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z They said that once hacked emails began appearing online, party functionaries were constantly behind in responding. U.S. government loses to Russia's disinformation campaign: advisers 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The institution's 538 electors, who are mostly elected officials or party functionaries, will cast their ballots at state capitols nationwide. Trump presidency expected to be certified by US electoral college - BBC News 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The investigating commission, however, said that in such cases: “The functionaries of the state would look the other way.” Pakistanis mark 2nd anniversary of Peshawar school attack 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The reference is to the prisoners forced to work as functionaries in the concentration camps. Trump’s Daily Bankruptcy and the Ambassador to Israel 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He worries that formal education is a machine producing willing functionaries for an oppressive system rather than, as he thinks it should, helping students develop with critical faculties. Raoul Martinez on writing this year's essential text for thinking radicals 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z She expected slavish displays of devotion from top bureaucrats and party functionaries, watching coolly as they lay full-length at her feet and pressed their faces to the floor. Death of Tamil Nadu’s Leader Leaves Power Vacuum in Southern India 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Fabrichnaya, a former Communist Party functionary, recently channeled her energy into pestering political parties and Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, for funds. They survived WWII. Now they live on $4.50 a day. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z To save embarrassment in the presence of UN observers, government functionaries made a last-minute decision to uproot any coca plants that fell within the designated limits, one government delegate told the BBC. Colombia peace deal: Left in limbo as Farc rebels fail to show - BBC News 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z This principle—that the nation declares its will by voting, and the functionaries of government peacefully accept the choice—has even been upheld when perhaps the candidate might have wished to do otherwise. Here's What Donald Trump Rejects When He Undermines the Election Results 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But as Mr. Baroni described it, he was more of a functionary at the Port Authority, while Mr. Wildstein was its chief link to “Trenton,” code for the governor. Ex-Christie Aide Says He Was Duped About Bridge Lane Closings 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In our work papers, we would quote some mid or high mid level functionary that indeed this "problem" was not indicative of a deeper problem. How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Liz Spayd, your job as Public Editor is to advocate for your readers... but it appears that you decided that you are a Public Relations functionary. Why’d You Do That? How The Times Decides to Send News Alerts 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Did President Xi Jinping directly order airport personnel and diplomatic functionaries to deny President Obama a proper welcome? Incident in Hangzhou 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Apart from a select few—including the men who tortured him, a handful of other prisoners and government functionaries, and his lawyers, myself included—no one in the world has heard him speak since 2002. A Man Wrongly Tortured for 9/11 Remains in Guantanamo 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In the estimation of the broker, Wiswell was a useful functionary but hardly a criminal genius. Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Other elected governing bodies or state law set the rates of the other 90 levies and the board’s approval is statutory and purely functionary. Pima County supervisors approve 2016 tax levies and rates 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z He thought he was the heavy, and Abedin the functionary, but maybe it was the other way around. The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton’s E-Mails 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z After knocking on the doors of countless functionaries in the new revolutionary government, he was finally directed to a Tripoli cemetery where the “traitors” — that is, Qaddafi regime loyalists — had been gathered up and buried. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The male characters are reduced to the sort of functionary sketches that are more typically the women’s roles in dude-centric movies like, for example, “The Hangover.” The hit-and-miss 'Bad Moms' tries to offer Mila Kunis and Co. a good night out 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s been called a corruption-plagued bureaucratic labyrinth, an organization led by five powerful countries interested mainly in thwarting one another’s plans, and administered by functionaries obsessed with protocol and lacking in common sense. Who
Can Run
The U.N.? 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The United States, for example, does not directly elect its secretary of state or, for that matter, any State Department functionary. The E.U. Is Democratic. It Just Doesn’t Feel That Way. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump won the nomination under the rules, even with many party functionaries opposed to him. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Today, when party functionaries draw district lines, they have at their disposal detailed census results, precinct-level voter tallies, and a cloud’s worth of consumer choices. The G.O.P. Plan That Turned America Red 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Transparency is not the reflexive urge of governments and their functionaries. Foggy on Police Transparency 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In “Power Monkeys,” a Kremlin functionary notes that “the British government has made the schoolboy error of asking the people what they want.” Make 'em laugh: Humorists see funny side of UK's EU debate 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The superdelegates are elected officials and Party functionaries, who overwhelmingly back her and seem unmoved by polls that show Sanders doing better in matchups with Trump. Bernie Sanders’s Post-California Choice 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z These are loyal politicians and functionaries ostensibly working for the state but in fact keeping an eye on state assets, to ensure that their true bosses win a share of the spoils. Ukraine Struggles to Shake Off Legacy of Corruption 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z A functionary in Veracruz of Prospera, a federal social programme, resigned on May 10th after he was caught on tape discussing how to buy votes for the PRI. The view from Veracruz 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But later he attempts to defend himself against accusations that the state has turned him into a mere functionary, and even begins to play along, declaring: “I too am an artist!. An artist of justice.” Provocative ‘Political Artist’ in Russia Convicted of Vandalism 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z An audience of bemused Syrian soldiers, stern-looking Russian military advisors in wrap-around sunglasses, United Nations representatives and government functionaries sat in the shadow of the ancient Roman theater’s crumbling columns. Valery Gergiev confronts terror with Brahms in a Palmyra temple 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z On the second day, chaos reigned as party functionaries tried to sort through hundreds of outstanding program points. Germany’s AfD Adopts Anti-Islam Stance at Party Conference 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Yes, that word so disliked by public functionaries, accountable. Where’s the accountability for DC Trust’s failure? 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Cloaking violent, even murderous actions in anodyne language might help a few doubting functionaries sleep easier at night, but it should make the rest of us profoundly uneasy. The last days of Washington, D.C.: America can no longer mask its steep decline 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Bernie is the disconnected dreamer, and Hillary is the solid, boring, well-informed functionary who isn’t promising hope and change as much as incremental improvement that amounts to lowering the temperature of hell by ten degrees. Hillary and Bernie Meet New York 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Mallarmé took a certain pride in the drabness of his lineage, describing himself as the scion of an “uninterrupted series of functionaries in the Administration and the Registry.” The Terrifying Beauty of Mallarmé 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z It was while serving in the Energy Ministry in 1993 that he got to know Ms. Rousseff, an obscure functionary in charge of energy policy in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Insider’s Account of How Graft Fed Brazil’s Political Crisis 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Within the party, many functionaries are chaffing at Xi’s anti-corruption crusade, widely seen as a way for him to consolidate power. 'Not fit to lead': letter attacking Xi Jinping sparks panic in Beijing 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Even former government functionaries have admitted as much. The U.S. has menaced Cuba for over 50 years — Fidel Castro is right to be wary of Obama’s claims 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z A functionary with a soft middle, he wants no part of Una, though he desires every part of her, including, perhaps, her sometimes hate-filled eyes and her abuse. The Aftermath of Pedophilia 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The Democratic total excludes more than 700 "superdelegates" - party functionaries and officeholders who also have a vote in the party convention. US election 2016: What to expect from Super Tuesday - the sequel - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is emblematic of the amoral functionary for whom Trump’s bigotry and demagoguery are irrelevant. The one person that could save America from Trump is...Trump himself 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z In her decade as chancellor, she abolished mandatory conscription, accelerated a phaseout of nuclear energy and raised pension payments for certain types of workers, against sometimes-bitter opposition from CDU functionaries and voters. German Welcome for Migrants Cools, Eroding Angela Merkel’s Standing 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s a wonderful opportunity for two-party functionaries to distill American mythologies into the high-minded diction of corporate wonkery. Vote for Hillary, be a sucker: It’s OK to reject the choice of a tyrannical liberal or a right-wing tyrant 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z It also seeks to crack down on North Korea’s “proliferation network” by requiring U.N. member states to expel its diplomats and functionaries of companies found to be involved in illicit activities. U.S. calls proposed sanctions against North Korea a ‘major upgrade’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A political party, after all, isn’t meant to be merely a collection of consultants, lobbyists and functionaries angling for jobs. GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z He is a skillful and popular politician, one of the few in modern Russia, where nearly all officials tend to be charmless functionaries. The Putin of Chechnya 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In her famous account of the trial, the philosopher Hannah Arendt described Eichmann as a small-minded functionary, more concerned with the managerial hows of his job than the moral or existential whys. Why Adolf Eichmann’s final message remains so profoundly unsettling | Giles Fraser 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Elected mayors and heads of communes have been replaced over the years by government functionaries, who have been accused of selling apartments or taking bribes, Professor Tlemçani said. A Tumultuous Housing Program in Algeria 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Zelloe’s lawyer told The Times that his client was a mere functionary. A Mansion, a Shell Company and Resentment in Bel Air 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” Don't Forget That Climate Change Strengthens ISIS 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet power held the promise of modernization, and, with time, many Chechens joined the Communist system as professors, doctors, and state functionaries. The Putin of Chechnya 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps some local governmental functionary decided that old Ninian could not spell. Restoring a proper name in Georgetown 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Many of their workers are volunteers or functionaries still paid by the Syrian government. On the Road in Syria, Struggle All Around 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z But party functionaries announced that results would not be available until Monday, and that the 70-year-old Suu Kyi would not address the crowd as expected, urging the crowds to return the next day. Millions Head to the Polls for Myanmar's Historic Election 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z "They are like crows", observed one functionary, "always making noise". The story of a small but crucial town in Myanmar - BBC News 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z His Robinson is a grey man, a sober, driven functionary whose only personal drama is a regret in not getting to the story earlier. In Spotlight, old-school journalism is its own kind of thrill ride 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z "What we are witnessing instead is the active promotion of irrational and sectarian thought by important functionaries of the government," the scientists said in a statement. Indian intellectuals alarmed by rise in attacks on 'science and reason,' and Modi's silence 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The scientists lamented what they called “active promotion of irrational and sectarian thought by important functionaries of the government”. Indian scientists join protests over killings of prominent secularists 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The answer is simple: Voters decide in the end, not pundits, politicians or party functionaries. What to Watch For At the CNBC Republican Debate 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z “In such difficult times for Greek society, for the Greek people, it is not acceptable for a public functionary to operate against the public interest,” she said. Top Greek Tax Official Is Dismissed 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The film sounds an environmentally conscious alarm with the devastating arrival of "progress" to the grasslands, in the form of government functionaries and settlers with rifles and pesticides. 'Wolf Totem' captures boy-dog bond amid Cultural Revolution 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z After costing the jobs of multiple state functionaries, the ever-expanding scandal – inevitably nicknamed Bridgegate – claimed its biggest scalp so far on Tuesday, with the resignation of the CEO of United Airlines. Chris Christie is still gridlocked by Bridgegate scandal two years later 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Alexander Yakovlev, a top Communist Party ideologue and functionary for many decades, said that the KGB "directly ran" the Orthodox Church and controlled all religious activity in the USSR. Russian Orthodox Church lends weight to Putin patriotism - BBC News 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Until, that is, you hear about a spot called Sex Change Ridge, a network of hiking trails called the Fruit Loop and a functionary called the Empress. Out of the Woods 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z "These are uneducated, or thinly educated, functionaries who basically see him as a god." With final defendant, Madoff criminal case comes to an end 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Or on the good faith and essay interpretation skills of anonymous university functionaries? In defense of the SAT test 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Over the years, it was home to senior government functionaries and in the mid-1940s, Mr Chaudhuri says, it was the residence of an Englishman who was the manager of Delhi Electric Supply. The only people willing to take Delhi's 'most haunted house' - BBC News 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z We are in Koons’ studio in Manhattan, a huge, temperature-controlled hangar where more than 130 young functionaries execute items on the artist’s to-do list, for example: “Seated Metallic Ballerina, finish color boundary.” Jeff Koons: ‘People respond to banal things – they don’t accept their own history’ 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organised international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Then, residents say, they set about acting like municipal functionaries. ISIS Alternates Stick and Carrot to Control Palmyra 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The six soccer functionaries were arrested today in Zurich by the Zurich Cantonal Police. Fifa corruption charges: six officials arrested in Zurich – live updates 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr Li became a celebrity in China, and political functionaries, including Xi Jinping before he became China’s president, visited his firm’s facilities. Burned again 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z That's when a single financial functionary, called a specialist, stepped in to match buy and sell orders in orderly fashion, preventing an automated free fall. Leak of revenue figures adds to Twitter's bad day; shares fall 18% 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He wore versions of local attire: a functionary suit in robin’s-egg blue, or embroidered print shirts made of cloth from Ivory Coast. Warren Weinstein in Death and Life 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Stewart, once so determined to show off his mastery of Arab culture, was now presenting himself as a functionary. A Billion-Dollar Mirage 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Although there were ostensibly three opposition candidates, they were obscure functionaries from pro-government parties who used their low-key campaigns to praise the incumbent, who habitually garners about 90 percent of the vote. Uzbeks Vote on Expected 4th Term for Authoritarian 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Party functionaries were incensed by the exiled Dalai Lama’s recent speculation that he might end his spiritual lineage and not reincarnate. China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “They have 100 functionaries here. We have 17 there,” told what was billed as “The Great Anti-Imperialist March.” US pushes back on Venezuela’s order to slash embassy staff 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Putin himself complains publicly that only about 20 percent of his decisions get implemented, with the rest being ignored or circumvented unless he intervenes forcefully with the interest groups and functionaries concerned. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z City functionaries were looking further ahead to a potentially more “Hunger Games” epoch. Global Warming Could Make the Super-Rich Jealous of Rowhouse Residents 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z One comedy video showed functionaries cheering, women ululating and an gray-haired man dancing after the bonuses were announced. Saudi King Unleashes a Torrent as Bonuses Flow to the Masses 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “The first impulse of government functionaries seems to be, invariably, to lie,” the editorial began. Who is Really Responsible For Mexico's Missing Forty-Three? 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z A roster of Venezuelan functionaries on the State Department website lists 43 staffers: 19 diplomats in Washington and 24 in the other offices around the country. US pushes back on Venezuela’s order to slash embassy staff 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z That downward spiral east of the river occurred as the city spent tens of millions and deployed a rotating army of government functionaries. A deputy mayor won’t change a thing east of the Anacostia 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In the hierarchy of corruption, those senior officials secured the loyalty of junior functionaries by allowing them to shake down their own subordinates—and to steal from the local populace—with impunity. Can Corruption Be Eradicated? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Islamic State functionaries also continue to exact payments, going door to door to collect taxes from shopkeepers and fees for electricity and telephones. The Islamic State is failing at being a state 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z She called Eichmann “terribly and terrifyingly normal,” lacking “criminal motives,” “a buffoon,” “a typical functionary” who was “banal” rather than “demonic” because he was not “deep,” being essentially without “ideology.” A murderer’s warped idealism In reality, the Kremlin and its functionaries have divvied up the nation’s strategic industries among a small and malleable circle of allies. Putin’s Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z On the podium earlier, Mr Modi recalled his days as a party functionary when he used to help with seating arrangements at media sessions at this office and often met journalists. Indian PM opens up to media - sort of 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z As minor functionaries droned on, a goat bleated and roosters crowed under cockfighting baskets. The New Face of Indonesian Democracy 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z To make the transactions look legitimate, other accomplices would collect the merchandise, posing as the shoppers or functionaries sent on their behalf, prosecutors said. Prosecutor: ID theft ring bought designer goods 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Government functionaries aren’t focusing on key policy matters such as textile policy and implementation of fiscal reforms. Investors See Positive Signs For Pakistan's Democracy 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Reporters in Beijing in 1989 were amazed to see normally dour-faced party functionaries suddenly transformed into singing and smiling insurgents, openly calling after a lifetime of blind obedience for their communist leaders to step down. Hong Kong protests: Echoes of Tiananmen 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z This inner circle coalesced around Mr. Putin as he began his unobtrusive rise, from a middling career as a K.G.B. intelligence officer to a midlevel functionary in the office of St. Petersburg’s mayor. It Pays to Be Putin’s Friend 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Reporters are not so unlike functionaries after all. Gotcha 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z He’s an overpaid, tone-deaf functionary whose power now needs to be checked. Ray Rice finally must answer for his actions; when will NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell? As evidence he plucked a laptop from a bag and opened what appeared to the full archive of an email account belonging to a leading Kremlin functionary. Inside Putinworld, where few risk speaking truth to power 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z He was the most powerful functionary of Guangzhou, a sprawling city of some 13 million long-term residents that is the capital of Guangdong Province, a pillar of manufacturing and exports in southern China. China’s Anticorruption Campaign Moves to a Powerful Party Seat 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z On the anniversary itself, when your correspondent visited the battlefield and its memorial, spectators were conspicuously outnumbered by sober-suited functionaries. Bannockburned 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Informants are often low-level functionaries with few contacts beyond their immediate handlers, but Ramos knew everyone in the Detroit cell. The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s too much in the hands of technicians and functionaries, of bureaucrats. Matteo Renzi: ‘Italy Will Never Be a Normal Country’ 2014-05-08T11:00:32Z "The militant groups work with impunity as they enjoy support from the state functionaries. They cannot work without some level of support," said veteran rights campaigner I.A. Pakistan's Hindus, other minorities face surge of violence 2014-05-05T21:12:23Z One can have a government that functions without being ruled by functionaries, and a government that benefits from expertise without being ruled by experts. Scalia Blasts `Unelected Agency Officials', But At Least They Work For The President 2014-04-30T15:02:00Z As a labor inspector she worked closely with unions, in a position widely viewed as that of a functionary, while making her way up within the Socialist Party. In Paris Campaign, Left and Right Have One Thing in Common 2014-03-22T00:32:30Z At the time, Putin was just making his move from his hometown, where he’d served as a functionary in the mayor’s office, to a position in the Kremlin. 4 Lessons Putin Will Take From U.S. Sanctions 2014-03-20T23:42:06Z Rand, of course, was long gone by then, meeting in Michigan with Republican Party functionaries and donors. Rand Paul’s Mixed Inheritance 2014-01-25T22:12:28Z Instead, the Communist Party and its leaders strive to present themselves as the servants of the people, functionaries working selflessly for the greater good. Will China expel the foreign press? 2013-12-11T02:11:10Z Then there’s the haphazard nature of planned development as per the mandate of Communist party functionaries, like the recent outbreak of “urbanization.” What Do China's New Policies Mean for the Environment? 2013-11-22T16:15:20.340Z Somewhere, in a dank windowless basement 27 floors underground taken from a scene in the movie “Brazil,” a nameless functionary is generating the names for these programs. Links 05 Oct, The NSA Did And Did Not Manage To Breach Tor 2013-10-05T15:47:00Z A post appeared on his Twitter account, perhaps from 11,000 m in the air, perhaps from the desk of a PR functionary back in Jerusalem. Israel's PM Tries to Get Between Obama and Iran 2013-09-30T11:05:23Z Another top functionary sits alone in a chair in an empty office looted of every machine, said a Western businessman who went to see him. Violent and Chaotic, Central African Republic Lurches Toward a Crisis 2013-08-07T00:57:26Z But the wave of popular outrage can only complicate President Xi Jinping’s efforts to reduce the animosity that many Chinese feel toward party functionaries and law enforcement officials. Death in China Stirs Anger Over Urban Rule Enforcers 2013-07-20T16:04:10Z Disobedient businessmen, disloyal functionaries, and opposition activists—these are the “criminals” the Kremlin wishes to pursue. Putin Toys With Obama 2013-07-02T08:45:00Z The IRS’s defenders insist that a few low-level functionaries simply made a clumsy attempt at an administrative short-cut. The IRS scandal: Who will tame the taxman? 2013-05-23T15:05:17Z “There is nothing like the insurgents taking over and operating government” following the departures of what he called “the key functionaries” from some nine local governments in Borno. Nigeria Military Gets More Power to Fight Rebels 2013-05-16T00:34:15Z Last week, he pointedly sent a low-level functionary as his representative to the Easter Mass led by the pope. IHT Special: Christians Uneasy in Morsi's Egypt 2013-05-15T18:25:41Z A Party functionary tapped by the Politburo to shore up the shaken Soviet Empire, Mikhail Gorbachev dismantled it instead. What to Look for in a New Pope 2013-03-09T00:05:49Z The government is a public functionary, a public institution meant for public good. India Ink: A Conversation With: Former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium 2013-02-04T09:52:41Z Thus, he said, much discretionary power is actually held by civil functionaries who can manipulate priorities, impose barriers to entitlements and pressure legislators for rules and budgets favorable to their own interests. James M. Buchanan, Economic Scholar, Dies at 93 2013-01-09T17:01:34Z Three-and-a-half years later, out of 27 people who faced charges, including the state fire inspectors who declared the nursery as safe, only 2 low-level functionaries have been jailed. Six moments in the Calderon presidency 2012-11-30T12:44:13Z That was the official line, though one man later confessed he was a minor party functionary and was sacked. Sex, Lies & Videotape 2012-11-28T16:19:00Z Without large tracts of land to cultivate, Kayasthas in Uttar Pradesh and the neighboring state of Bengal became a caste of peons—clerks, bookkeepers, minor functionaries for the local maharajahs. Why Can't India Feed Its People? 2012-11-21T18:00:20Z So we wonder: If the death of a relatively minor party functionary like Dighe set off the 2001 mayhem, what will the death of the party patriarch cause the faithful to do? Mumbai on Edge 2012-11-16T09:45:00Z The papers Gabriele admits he photocopied and passed on at secret meetings included letters to the pope in which a senior Vatican functionary expressed concern about improper behavior in the Holy See's business dealings. Pope's butler set to testify at Vatican trial 2012-10-01T21:57:34Z For America, the irony of the rise of Mohamed Morsi is that this colorless functionary of the Muslim Brotherhood is the first Egyptian ruler steeped in American ways. Morsi, Obama, and the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship 2012-10-01T05:00:00Z Nakoula is insisting he was just a functionary in the production of a film that seems intended to incite Muslim extremists to violence. Was ‘Sam Bacile’ an Informant? 2012-09-14T08:45:00Z Police searched Fomchenkov's Moscow apartment shortly before Osipova's arrest in connection with "an economic case," details of which were never communicated to the Other Russian functionary. Russian Opposition Activist Gets 8-Year Sentence 2012-08-28T13:03:12Z The ashen-faced figure was one of the city's policemen, who were among the last functionaries of the Tsarist regime to remain loyal. Does democracy always equal freedom? 2012-08-24T17:15:35Z She now hosts about 100 Chinese groups a year, mostly senior functionaries and dignitaries. France tops European table for Chinese tourists 2012-08-17T14:21:09Z There is arrogance at the top level and signs of corruption and nepotism among lower functionaries. India Ink: A Conversation With: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee 2012-08-08T05:04:16Z Mensch, 41, has a much higher—and more controversial—profile than the average government functionary. Britain's Anne-Marie Slaughter Moment 2012-08-06T20:50:14Z The judge chastised Jungwirth for his "revolting old Austrian functionary mentality". Former Austrian Olympics chief jailed for corruption 2012-07-31T14:09:29Z Neighbors say a former communist functionary has been placed in charge of the village mosque. Analysis: Fight over Islam, money and power brings violence to Volga 2012-07-27T07:16:42Z From many corners of the country, groups organized humanitarian aid and descended on Krymsk to help, rather than wait for incompetent government functionaries to fail. Op-Ed Contributor: Russia’s Summer of Idealism 2012-07-18T05:04:33Z At the time of the riots, Gujarat’s chief minister was Mr. Modi, a newly appointed functionary from the Bharatiya Janata Party, which advocates Hindu supremacy but faced sinking popularity in the state. Gujarat Riot Trials May Alter India’s Cycle of Violence 2012-07-03T03:28:21Z He rose up from a low-level functionary to become a powerful governor through the same attention to strategy he applies while playing chess. Peña Nieto Savors Long-Plotted Victory in Mexico 2012-07-03T02:00:32Z Patrick Baz / AFP-Getty Images Mubarak was born 84 years ago in a dusty village in the Nile delta, the son of a minor government functionary. The Tyrant's Brutal Legacy 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z Daily Express It is clear that without accepting the court decisions, no government and government functionary will be able to survive. Pakistani Press calls for calm after Gilani ruling 2012-06-20T08:15:05Z The miscarriage of justice is not that Clemens may have gotten away with something, but that vindictive government functionaries can spend five years trying to jail someone for a crime without adequate evidence. Roger Clemens trial: Government overstepped its bounds 2012-06-19T18:28:00Z The Greek heralds, who claimed descent from Hermes, the messenger of the gods, through his son Keryx, were public functionaries of high importance in early times. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z And the kind of functionary they wish to get in his room is not of a very flattering order. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The Usher, a functionary of the old school, at once proceeds to give some homely and informal advice to the jurymen, telling them to listen to the case with minds free from vulgar prejudice. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Up came the waiter with another dish, that attentive functionary observing that the Monsieur Anglais ate nothing. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z In virtue of ancient charters and privileges, the city is a species of independent community, governed by its own laws and functionaries. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z This first audience took place in public, in the midst of all the high functionaries of the state. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In those counties where the sheriff was democratic, their decision was sustained by this functionary, confusing and confounding every thing. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Which of these two functionaries is the superior? Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z But this "high functionary" absolutely insists on his incognito. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It matters not whether it be the power of a monarch on his throne, or of the humblest village functionary. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The Church that was thus established consisted solely of adepts and initiates, the clergy only, and the higher functionaries at that. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z To twenty writs placed on Monday morning in the sheriff's hands, that functionary made his return on Tuesday evening, "Eloped under whip and spur out of the bailiwick." Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Although, at Son Españolet, we were subject to no police or other rate, a small weekly tax was levied with extreme punctuality, on behalf of himself, by a functionary called the vigilante. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z "We have no dukes nor marquises; we know of no titles in France," replied the functionary. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The higher functionaries of the Roman Catholic Church, we have reason to believe, have this same view, which is more than hinted in several places. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Novikoff was a painstaking, narrow-minded functionary, superciliously proud of his office and slavishly loyal to the letter of the law. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z The consul shook hands with him, the mechanical hand-shake of the public functionary. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z Some of us, not having the fear of New York courts nor the majesty of Judge Cardozo before our eyes, fairly laughed at that judicial functionary's lordly impudence. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Thus honoured by the head of the Church, and befriended by its dignitaries, Gallileo must have felt himself secure against the indignities of its lesser functionaries.... Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:19.393Z Carew had been nearly six weeks in Pernambuco, when a British mail steamer happened to land an English passenger, who at once called on the consul, and introduced himself to that functionary as Mr. Norton. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z In the old English garden the topiarist was an important functionary. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z We have named those only whose representatives are still dignitaries of the court and functionaries of the palace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Before dinner was announced by a dignified-looking functionary we had got through quite an amazing amount of conversation. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z The curiosity of this functionary once satisfied, he gave them rich presents for the Spanish governor of the Philippines, saying that they might return when they brought Limahon dead or alive. The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) 2012-03-01T03:00:25.290Z This familiarity is wholly out of place under such circumstances, and it is matter of surprise that our public men so frequently fall into it, even in addressing public functionaries representing foreign countries here, etc. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Bishop Lee, as President of Wilberforce University and a functionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, rendered his race constructive service. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z From that Sunday I always went with Aronach, unbidden, but unforbidden; and as I learned to be very expert in stopping, I substituted very speedily the functionary who had performed the office before my advent. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The principal functionary for Ireland is styled Ulster, king of arms: under him are two heralds, Cork and Dublin, and one pursuivant, Athlone. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z There are more than sixty millions of rated persons inscribed on the royal registers, exclusive of the public functionaries and those people who are too poor to pay taxes. The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) 2012-03-01T03:00:25.290Z The affairs of each separate kingdom were evidently directed from the national capitals and administered largely by native functionaries. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z The affairs of the National Baptist Convention, incorporated, are administered by thirteen officers, and the National Baptist Convention, unincorporated, by an equal number of functionaries. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z This functionary I met, swelling with importance, but a trifle blown from the frequent sounding of his clarion, to wit, a japanned fish-horn. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Partly, Wednesday’s visit was intended to be about image-making — Mr. Xi showing off his American rural, agricultural connections, the message being that he is no mere party functionary. Xi Jinping of China Makes a Return Trip to Iowa 2012-02-15T17:27:53Z With what a bitter laugh did Terence contemplate the honour which awaited the overworked functionary! My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z All the functionaries are Russian, the small merchants and shopkeepers Swedish, and the peasants and sailors Finns. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z The laws, therefore, were nominally accepted as just and the functionaries in the colonies in reporting to their home countries on the state of the plantations made it appear that they were generally complied with. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The latter functionary was responsible for the bread and the beer, as being both made from grain. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The explanation given by the Veracruz authorities was largely derided, with one commentator questioning why the state's governor would send a functionary carrying so much cash. Seized cash triggers political furor in Mexico 2012-02-02T15:49:27Z He despatched his sheriff to the provost-marshal, demanding that the culprit should be resigned to him; but that functionary declined to give up his prisoner. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z We went into the Abbey at the Poets' Corner, where an entrance was reserved for the Corps Diplomatique and Court functionaries. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z President Boyer of the Republic of Haiti and other public functionaries kindly received this missionary, giving him permission to preach. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z This functionary actually lived during the period of the dominion of the later Hyksos kings, and therefore very close to the time of Joseph. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Having become acquainted with this functionary, and having seen his comfortable life, he became mad, and now thinks that he, too, can live as gentlemen do, without work, being provided for by the Emperor. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Chief Justice Belcher presided at the quarter sessions this summer, and gave a very loyal address to the Magistrates and public functionaries present; all Magistrates and town officers took the Oath of Allegiance. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z I should think all servants, railway guards, and small functionaries generally would adore him. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Here, however, I confess, the answer is complete—nobody, but the functionaries, is suffered to see it. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z It was originally intended that the party should comprise Sir Humphry and Lady Davy, Faraday, and Sir Humphry's valet, but at the last moment that most important functionary declined to leave his native shores. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z They had not in view the people; but, from kings down to the lowest state functionaries, in Rome, as well as in France, England, Russia, and America, they gave themselves over to idleness and depravity. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z There are no ushers and no Court functionaries, and little or no display. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Later in the afternoon, Black Pete, whose name had been mentioned to the commonwealth attorney by several of the Falerins, walked voluntarily into the office of that functionary. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The office of supporting the body to the grave was supposed to belong, of right, and duty, to relatives and friends; or, in the case of eminent persons, to public functionaries. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Hence that legion of armies, political functionaries, and hangers-on, who devour in idleness the productions of industry; pampering their vicious appetites, and spreading universal corruption. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z While its members include some respected human rights workers, others are said to be diplomats and functionaries sent by Arab League governments with their own woeful records of human rights. Arab League Criticized Over Syria Observer Mission 2012-01-03T02:22:20Z We must not forget that the Summer Palace is a town in itself, a city inhabited by thousands of mandarins, Court functionaries, attendants, servants, and labourers. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Scholars say the new structure is more efficient, with fewer party functionaries lacking clear duties. Chinese Official, Wang Yang, Tests New Political Approach 2011-12-31T04:36:33Z I have had two of those functionaries in adjacent rooms, and have borrowed the money from one to pay out the other, with many such like incidents.” Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z It is sad to have to record that this man, too, fell a victim to the temptation of borrowing from the public funds, which so few Fijian functionaries can resist. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The iconic painting hangs everywhere in North Korea — in the offices of party functionaries and in homes, in factories and in schools. North Korea Waits for Kim Jong Un to Consolidate Power 2011-12-19T11:05:00Z You refuse to understand that everybody on this earth has to work, from the smallest to the greatest, from the humblest clerk to the highest functionary, from the artisan to the artist. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z This month, scientists who did not want to belong to an academic institution whose members were mostly selected by government functionaries set up their own independent academy. Analysis: Politics enters science in Erdogan's Turkey 2011-12-12T10:50:53Z A kindred functionary of the law, having been struck by the cruel conduct of a vindictive tradesman, actually paying the bill himself, and receiving the money back from Mathews in instalments of ten pounds. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z “It’s not a low-level functionary,” a regulator said. Common Sense: An Unthinkable Risk at a Brokerage Firm 2011-12-09T23:18:59Z "United Russia did not do too well in a series of regions, but not because people refuse to trust the party itself ... but simply because local functionaries irritate them," he said. Putin's party has domination cut in Russia 2011-12-06T00:46:58Z That distinguished functionary divests himself of his cigar, polishes his perspiring forehead with his handkerchief, and offers himself as a candidate for her hand. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z At the hour when the particular robbery with which he was charged had been committed, Agua-Dulce showed that he was in the town and had saluted this or that functionary. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z At the foreign ministry - relatively modest given Myanmar's hermetic nature - functionaries peeked as the U.S. entourage arrived to launch the official talks. Witness: What not to wear in Myanmar: Clinton's Burma road 2011-12-02T17:26:48Z "I'm going," he said, directly that functionary was gone. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z The control of education in Cuba was given—it hardly seems credible—into the hands of the military functionaries to administer. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z "Because every castle must have its conservatories, madame," replied the functionary, proudly. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z In order to check extravagance on the part of the free cities, he greatly extended the practice of placing them under the supervision of imperial functionaries known as correctores. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He was a picturesque and important functionary, illustrating in his person the simple fashions and modest desires of the French who first settled this State. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z Before he went he gave a private hint to the head gamekeeper that he would not be inconsolable if that questionable functionary could manage to make out a case of night-poaching against Thomas Wanless. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z He shall also issue commissions to all the functionaries of the Republic. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z "We must beg monsieur to kindly pardon our ignorance of these formalities," said Madame Bastien, with a mocking smile, as if to show her son how little she minded this pompous functionary's discourtesy. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z But that functionary only shrugged his shoulders and replaced the Guide upon the mantelpiece. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z Her white dress, together with the coat of the bridegroom, must be blessed by the priest, a ceremony which the church functionary performs alone, both articles being sent to him early in the morning. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z We at once engaged the latter functionary, ordered the remise of the hotel to wait for us, and started upon two days of eager but weary sight-seeing. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The House of Representatives shall have full power to dismiss from office any functionary whom they have convicted. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z The last prime minister was a functionary serving the military council, and the demonstrators, as well as most civilian parties, are now calling for the council to hand over real authority to a successor. Egypt Military and Protesters Dig In for Tahrir Square Standoff 2011-11-25T09:29:05Z It was raining hard when we got there, but not one of these gorgeous functionaries would demean himself sufficiently to carry an umbrella down to our carriage. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Thus we should look to drive an economic wedge between the regime and the military officers, government functionaries and business elites that underlie it. Economic Pressure Can Make Syria’s Assad the Next to Fall: View 2011-11-17T00:23:02Z A franc each person was the entrance fee, and we were scarcely seated before a functionary authoritatively invited us to command some refreshment, in a tone which was itself the order of the day. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Several of my relatives carried the habit to such an extent that they made public discourses on their dying day—discourses which were discourteously interrupted by vile public functionaries. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z I see lots of officers and functionaries, in uniform, passing in fiacres and riding, and a general migration of the whole city including the beggars and flower girls of the Spanish Steps toward the Piazza. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Two or three functionaries of the civil power, and, in one corner, a black cloth, spread on the floor, concealed some unknown object. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The farmer, the stock-raiser, and the merchant seemed to be allowed to exist only to pay the Spanish functionary, instead of the government's existing for the benefit of the producing community. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z In the mean time a functionary enters, and furtively carries away a small box. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Messieurs, you who are not vile, and who are not public functionaries, and, indeed, who are never likely to be public functionaries—you, I trust, will not interrupt me. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z But that functionary saw at once the necessity of strengthening the frontier. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Some of us have encountered Congressional committees attending the remains of distinguished functionaries to their distant place of burial. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z He suppressed the exactions of Dutch soldiers and functionaries, and established law, order, and justice. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z Mr. Rogerson carried round the plate and counted the money in the vestry—most important function and functionary of them all. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z And I may add that the baby in arms was rarely trusted to this functionary, except for airings in the garden under my eye. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z The ambitious chief, first of all issued his pronunciamiento against the ministry of the president, and then, shortly after, against that functionary himself. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z "No!" roared Wilbur, excitedly; "he should satisfy a public functionary that he's paid his debts and provided for those who are dependent on him." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Legislation has been controlled by the functionaries, and there has been no general and continuous participation in governmental affairs by the body of the people. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z "I am certain Hodgkins is vexed about something," said Aunt Harriet solemnly, when that functionary had withdrawn. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z |
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