Sentence examples for administration servant from inspiring English sources

Mr Clarke countered by arguing that he had merely been spinning the facts as a loyal administration servant - a cynical defence that had the effect of belittling the integrity of both sides in the row.

Collapsing under the weight of an ineffectual system and unprecedented levels of administration, civil servants will start to strike.

Amid the feuds and the policy gridlock of the Trump Administration, one faithful servant of the White House, Jefferson B. Sessions III, the Attorney General, has been busy pushing through real policy changes that have been on his mind for decades.

But I'll also add that they're encouraged that policy makers in the U.S. — led by the Obama administration and public servants like Mr. Kulongoski — are finally starting to get it.

This plan was very flexible, for in a large monastery there would be several cloisters or courts with suitable independent arrangements for archives, administration, guests, wayfarers, servants, artisans, shops, and folds; special quarters were provided by such courts for retired or sick monks and for novices.

On Thursday, most of the Democrats on the House foreign affairs committee wrote to the current secretary of state, John Kerry, offering his staff protection against a "witch-hunt" by the new administration against civil servants who worked on Obama policies Trump wants to reverse.

The result is a growing politicisation of public administration under which civil servants are loth to show any initiative unless authorised by ministers.

The difference between Democratic and Republican Administrations, one career civil servant said, is that when Democrats see a room of reporters they rush out to woo them, while Republicans keep a distance and are more disciplined about punishing miscreants.

He appealed to the international community to unblock Libyan funds frozen in western bank accounts since the fighting started, so that the new administration could pay civil servants and the police.

This tactic was used during the Reagan administration by career civil servants in the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service who challenged the president's efforts to cut the food stamp budget and declare ketchup a "vegetable". They performed the work that was technically required but refused to openly defend the policy to various constituencies.

But there is a dark, McCarthyist undertone to the idea that an incoming administration should remove civil servants who have pushed for the advancement of LGBT rights; in part because it's a slippery slope to removing people who are, themselves, LGBT.