Sentence examples for as a functionary in from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The Jin prefect was no more than a functionary, in contrast to the feudal practice.

To scholars on the left, he was an irksome distraction from the attempt to humanize socialism; to scholars on the right, his origins as a Communist functionary in the hinterlands made him deeply suspect -- a typical provincial apparatchik," was the dismissive judgment of Dmitri K. Simes.

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.

In Mr. Holbrooke's most recent job, both the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal, and his aides, as well as functionaries in Mr. Obama's White House and National Security Council, sniped incessantly at the ambassador.

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.

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.