Sentence examples for customs clerk from inspiring English sources

In 1871, he became a customs clerk, stationed on the outskirts of Paris.

After working as a customs clerk and serving in a military unit protecting the port in the 1948 war for independence, he became director of customs for the new nation and moved to Jerusalem.

But the movie is heading steadily into Capraesque sentimentality as Viktor becomes the close friend of an elderly Indian cleaner, a Hispanic kitchen worker (for whom he acts as Cupid with a customs clerk) and a black baggage attendant.

It rules out any tolerance of so called "facilitation payments" a euphemism for the sort of low-level bribery endemic to many parts of the world, such as slipping a few dollars to a customs clerk to speed goods through a port.But there are also concerns that the rules, so promising on paper, will be watered down.

So wrote Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) of his large painting "The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope" (1905), which appears in a terrific, unexpectedly challenging retrospective of the beloved customs clerk's art, subtitled "Jungles in Paris," at the Tate Modern, in London.

In 1547, Polish cochineal disappeared from the Poznań customs registry; a Volhynian clerk noted in 1566 that the dye no longer paid in Gdańsk.

The greatest poet of the age, Geoffrey Chaucer, served the king as a diplomat, a customs official and a clerk of The King's Works while producing some of his best-known work.

Jordan Perez, the goalkeeper, is a firefighter; the Chipolina brothers, Joseph and Ryan, are an admin clerk and a customs officer respectively; two of the three Casciaros, Ryan and Lee, are policemen, while the third, Kyle, is a shipping agent.

Or perhaps some governments deliberately keep wages low because they take it for granted that customs inspectors and driving-licence clerks will supplement their official pay.Although it is plausible to suspect that low pay encourages government officials to seek extra income, a strong correlation is hard to draw.

In 1910 United States Census, he was living in Baltimore with two sisters, working as a clerk for a custom house.

At the post office, I was filling out a customs form and asked the young clerk what I should put under "value".