Sentence examples for a humble official from inspiring English sources

He proved that he, a humble official of HM Revenue & Customs, could still be "a player" – the go-to guy who could cut a deal with the big boys – by overriding his underlings.

It raised suspicions about how a village official earning a humble salary was able to afford the extravagance.

Whereas a jumble of official economic and financial data spun out by Beijing are prone to official censorship, potatoes, a humble crop that has been a low-cost dietary staple in much of the West, is one of the more illustrative and reliable barometers for the state of the Chinese economy.

Islamist hubris alone has not undone Erdoğan; it's more the mile-wide authoritarian streak he inherited from Ataturk and which runs through Turkish life, filtering down to humblest officials currying favour by second guessing and zealously enforcing their superiors' orders.

A humble pack-horse.

A humble guy.

Kalam had a humble beginning.

We are a humble kitchen.

He was a humble kid.

"I'm a humble guy".

"It's a humble town.