Sentence examples for first servant from inspiring English sources

He posed as the first servant of an empire over which the Roman Senate presided, and it would appear that his claim to have accepted no office inconsistent with ancestral custom was literally true.

Not only did the title aim at identifying the new Russia with European political tradition, but it also bespoke the new conception of rulership and of political authority that Peter wanted to implant: that the sovereign emperor was the head of the state and its first servant, not the patrimonial owner of the land and "father" of his subjects (as the tsar had been).

But formally the States-General had been sovereign since 1588, and the Stadtholder was merely their "first servant".

It's not just that one has to agree with Stalin all the time, one also has to maintain the illusion that free discourse is possible; otherwise the fantasy that Stalin has been freely chosen to lead the people – that he is the first servant, as it were – is destroyed.

On the government Referring to Mr Blair's first "servants of the people" speech: Good instincts.

His father is a far cry from the third servant.

SECOND SERVANT: Yes, it's good that he's keeping the money.

A few days later, Mrs. Chawla sends a second servant, Lata.

But the third servant simply held onto the money, afraid of taking any chances, and was berated for the failure.

Prentice brings in a second servant, a maid named Sheila, who at first seems a mousy little thing but is soon slithering around the kitchen in a tennis sweater and not much else.

But any reader of the Bible will know that lessons like this can go either way - that had the first two buried their talents and the third servant doubled his, he could easily have been accused of greed and also cast out.