Sentence examples for as a functionary from inspiring English sources

Word by word, line by line, Clattenburg shed the stereotype of the referee as a functionary rendered anonymous by authority.

It is also true that all of Hollande's experience has been as a functionary within the Socialist party.

So we had one goal by a dreamer and one by a man who has lived all his dreams, albeit as a functionary in Barça teams adorned by fabulous players like Ronaldinho and Leo Messi.

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.

Born into a peasant family, he rejects farming to join the local resistance during the war, then works as a functionary in the newly established Communist government, only to return, eventually, to the family farm.

He spent three decades toiling quietly at the routine jobs of urban machine politics -- as secretary to an alderman, as a functionary in the county treasurers office, as a state legislator, as county clerk.

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.

Though superficially so different, both of these responses were built on the same foundation: a sense of Hernandez not as a person but a functionary within the structure of a football team, and of the murdered Lloyd as a phantom, there only to move a story about the 2013 New England Patriots season along.

The party had ruled Russia since 1917 and it was hard for anyone in Russia, particularly an official who had spent his entire career as a party functionary, to imagine it going out of power.

After his marriage in 1603, however, he settled down as a public functionary in Zamora.

After studying economics at the University of Chicago, Mr. Lavin served as a minor functionary in the Planning Ministry.