Sentence examples for be a functionary from inspiring English sources

The more likely scenario that could spare us Blair is that leaders of several of Europe's smaller member nations are not quite sure that they want such a high-profile figure, and a compromise candidate could be a functionary or a less visible leader from a small country.

I was a functionary of the Polish government.

And always there's a functionary, somberly listing what he does.

Claimed at the inquests he was a "functionary" with no seniority in the post-Hillsborough operation.

There was no time to wonder who their author was — a functionary under the spell of his politically accrued charisma?

Under the 1985 French law even the creditor's representative is a functionary of the administration of justice, appointed by the court from an approved panel.

Part of her defense was that she was a functionary working at the behest of a mysterious woman named Antoinette Kay, who has never been found.

'One of my uncles disappeared,' he says, 'he was quite senior in local administration and had been a functionary with the previous government, the Obote regime.

The last prime minister was a functionary serving the military council, and the demonstrators, as well as most civilian parties, are now calling for the council to hand over real authority to a successor.

The setting in the version that opened last night at the 59E59 Theaters is Denver, a city bang in the middle of America, and the narrator is a functionary in an electrical supply warehouse named Michael.

"He's not a hero -- he's a functionary," Mr. Luriye said last week of Mr. Putin, between drags on a cigarette in one of the city's sophisticated bars.