Sentence examples for a good functionary from inspiring English sources

More plausibly, someone has told her to make this go away and like a good functionary she has.

This may have been a good career guide for the ambitious cultural functionary in 18th-century Germany, but doesn't seem to have much relevance for us now.

This is a humbler tale, of the unsung role of an incompetent functionary who helped speed an empire to its demise.Chonghou chose the right parents in life and a good era to be born.

So now can we all feel good about a Taliban functionary benefiting from our open society, becoming a convert to our belief in liberal democracy?

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

Of the unusual family name he had only a theory: an Ellis Island functionary had garbled the father's hometown, Odessa.

A sweeper woman stopped by for an hour a day, the functionary explained, but afterward things inevitably became filthy again.

"It's not a low-level functionary," a regulator said.

But can Don survive as a high-priced functionary, a drone with all the perks but no real freedom?

The government is a public functionary, a public institution meant for public good.

It's admittedly easy enough, if you are writing a fictional television show, to sit in a diner booth or on a bar stool with a police lieutenant or an assistant principal, an assistant state's attorney or a political functionary and have them tell you the good dirt, knowing as they do that fiction is a safe abstraction.