Sentence examples for a useful servant from inspiring English sources

Nkoloso had been "quite politically active when we were fighting for independence," he said, and "a useful servant to the nation".

Abigail's husband, Samuel Masham, was made a baron, although Anne protested to Harley that she "never had any design to make a great lady of [Abigail], and should lose a useful servant".

Steinem was savvy enough to understand that the thorny gift of brains and beauty had made her attractive to the mass media and an unexpectedly useful servant of the cause.

When science becomes the sole or even primary arbiter of such basic notions as personhood, it ceases to be mankind's most useful servant and threatens, instead, to become its dictator.

Assuming the civil servants are on an average public-sector wage of around £24,000, the saving from a cull of 80,000 will amount to around £2 billion—a useful start but a long way off £20 billion.

One of the coming techniques will be what we might call bioengineering – the development of intelligent and useful servants among the other animals on this planet, particularly the great apes and, in the oceans, the dolphins and whales".

In other words, the teacher is seen as a useful minor civil servant, without deviant political or economic attitudes.

"Does anyone seriously suppose that Russia will try to annex Rockall in peacetime," questioned a civil servant's memo, "or would be physically able to maintain any sort of a useful observation post there?" The mandarin had a point.

Anyway, a useful lesson.

And a useful one.

A useful innovation.