Sentence examples for a functionary from inspiring English sources

And always there's a functionary, somberly listing what he does.

But Mr. Hunter said he was "just a functionary".

The Jin prefect was no more than a functionary, in contrast to the feudal practice.

"That makes you a functionary of the Chinese government," said Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican.

He is more of a functionary than a potential leader; an apparatchik.

There was no time to wonder who their author was — a functionary under the spell of his politically accrued charisma?

Word by word, line by line, Clattenburg shed the stereotype of the referee as a functionary rendered anonymous by authority.

It is also true that all of Hollande's experience has been as a functionary within the Socialist party.

Another, less diplomatic dispatch sent to a functionary of the British embassy said simply: "Your new boss is a plonker".

He was much more of a functionary-type guy who was buddies with John Chambers.

At a similar timing, having a collaborative partnership with the National Natural Science Foundation of China a functionary of the Chinese State Council, the German Research Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaftt) issued a public statement concerning the replicability problem of research results nowadays (Forschungsgemeinschaft 2017).