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The phrase "a functionary of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who holds a specific role or position within an organization, often in a bureaucratic or administrative context.
Example: "He was appointed as a functionary of the local government, responsible for overseeing community projects."
Alternatives: "an official of" or "a member of".
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"That makes you a functionary of the Chinese government," said Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican.
Another, less diplomatic dispatch sent to a functionary of the British embassy said simply: "Your new boss is a plonker".
Under the 1985 French law even the creditor's representative is a functionary of the administration of justice, appointed by the court from an approved panel.
Last month's first round of presidential voting in Egypt produced two flawed, polarizing candidates: Ahmed Shafik, former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister; and Mohamed Morsi, a functionary of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He spent the early years of his career as a functionary of the Brooklyn Democratic machine and only came to trial work in 1974, when he helped defend Representative Bertram Podell in a federal corruption case.
Dwight proves a disturbing character because he seems to have reached a hellish accommodation with Negan's rule, surrendering what is valuable about being human as he becomes a functionary of an evil regime.
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Indebtedness to commercial power depersonalises the people in this film: more even than dispensable workers, the replicants are not makers of the product, they are the product; otherwise Deckard is a man scoured out by being a functionary on behalf of what he himself names "the business".
The sample of 12 healthcare professionals consisted of three GPs, an academic GP, a practice nurse and a mental health nurse, a pharmacist, a dietician, a physical therapist, a vascular internist, and an advising GP with a healthcare functionary of a health insurance company (interviewed together).
Mr. Berlusconi has said he recently met Ms. Letizia through her father, Benedetto Letizia, a functionary for the city of Naples.
"There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function".
The agreement that the church is now proposing "would essentially transform the center's nonsectarian public service mission into a sectarian one in which the center would become a functionary organization of the church and the diocese," the arts center said in a statement.
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