Sentence examples for Elected servants from inspiring English sources

But as elected servants of citizens and the public interest, we cannot afford to sacrifice certain European safeguards on the altar of free trade," said the lead MEP, Bart Staes (Greens/EFA, BE).

I'm not an elected servant.

Taxpayers may wonder why the existing deep-pocket system came to be licit, why their elected public servants can (must?) routinely behave as crass mendicants.

With all the bellowing about spiraling budget deficits and shrinking tax revenue emanating from New Jersey's State House these days, it might be logical to assume that your elected civil servants might attend to the treasury with a bit of austerity.

Elected public servants generally serve for 4 years.

Come next year, newly elected public servants across the country will be getting to work building a more progressive future for their local communities and a more progressive Democratic party.

The partnership has worked well; Mr. O'Brien calls Mayor Jason "the most effective elected public servant I've met".

Looking back, I realise the reason I was suddenly so unblocked was because I had stumbled on something significant: the relationship between our most senior elected public servant and our head of state.

"In the long sweep of American history, there are moments for each elected public servant to step aside and let someone else step up," he said, standing outside his flag- and wreath-bedecked clapboard home, a 19th-century schoolhouse on Main Street in East Haddam, with his 8-year-old daughter, Grace, resting her chin on his elbow, and Christina, 4, in her mother's arms.

Facing a tough reelection, Dodd said that "there are moments for each elected public servant to step aside and let someone else step up".

The influence that the vote gave to the farmers was not exploited at first, and they continued to elect civil servants as their parliamentary representatives.