Sentence examples for customs staff from inspiring English sources

Revenue and customs staff were cut.

The UK has 5,000 customs staff and Border Force has 8,000: a very lean operation by international standards.

He praised the work of border control and customs staff, saying authorities had made "record seizures" in the past year.

Home Office ministers are urgently considering taking court action over Thursday's planned 24-hour strike by Heathrow immigration and customs staff on the eve of the Olympics.

"The worst that would happen is that the book will be confiscated," he said, "and it's probably because the customs staff want to read it themselves".

We are talking about jobcentre staff, customs staff, pensions staff, coastguards, immigration officers, security guards, air traffic control staff, traffic wardens, museum warders, librarians, prison and court workers.

While, according to Prussian custom, general staff officers accepted joint responsibility for all decisions made, they had to preserve strict anonymity.

The last measure of this kind (1733) had not been enforced, but this time the government set up a system of customs houses, staffed by British officers, and even established a vice-admiralty court.

A letter sent to Iran's customs offices informed staff that this "decedent Western custom" was a "sacrilegious cultural inroad from the domineering capitalist system with the aim of weakening the Iran's... fundamental family values".They have little time for moony merchandise.

Philip Hammond's preference for a transitional period after the UK leaves the EU could refer solely to a period of adjustment for customs and border staff, rather than retaining any trading or free movement rights, a former cabinet minister has said.

The public accounts committee will have a field day with that, and the absence of critical performance data, such as the cost per passport inspected – plus the claim that it no longer bothers with rich folk arriving by private plane and yacht and has robbed customs inspections of staff to boost passport control.