Sentence examples for functionary for from inspiring English sources

In high school, he served as a party functionary for both the local and state Democratic parties.

Even before the phrase "the genius of the system" crept into academic jargon, historians depicted Fleming as nothing more than a competent functionary for a strong studio, MGM.

He is a Texas oil man whose acquaintance with the current President Bush leads to his appointment as a State Department functionary for Middle Eastern affairs.

Mr. Berlusconi has said he recently met Ms. Letizia through her father, Benedetto Letizia, a functionary for the city of Naples.

Mr. Jakes was a Communist functionary for 42 of his 67 years, until he was ousted as head of the party last November, during the "velvet revolution" that shook Czechoslovakia.

Mr. Laxman, who has been a full-time party functionary for three decades, was annointed for the party presidency by the prime minister, who is generally seen as the party's liberal face.

M. Georges Hirsch, who five years ago was sharply criticized by the press and some state functionaries for "irregularities" in his administration of the Opera and the Opera-Comique and was replaced, is now back, this time with a broom.

The very poorest, in particular, he argues, need to be given more choice so that they aren't dependent on just one or two potentially corrupt low-ranking functionaries for their dealings with the state – for instance the distribution system, which channels food at controlled prices to the poor and which, as it stands, is open to subversion on various levels.

The other study finds the glass half empty: in a Research Letter to be posted online Tuesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers who followed British functionaries for two decades found that just over half of those who were obese but metabolically healthy at the outset had become metabolically unhealthy by the end.

It is not too late for some senior members of the armed forces and police - and senior ZANU-PF functionaries for that matter - to abandon Mugabe and to come over to the democratic forces.

One of them was Alfred Kokh, a government functionary responsible for running the auction for Tyumen Oil, which was known as TNK.