Sentence examples for functionary of from inspiring English sources

Here the jiqiu ("libationer"), the priestly functionary of the nuclear community, officiated.

"That makes you a functionary of the Chinese government," said Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican.

Another, less diplomatic dispatch sent to a functionary of the British embassy said simply: "Your new boss is a plonker".

But then they called back later and said some functionary of the government would be coming to get the boy".

The supreme being was the highest state security functionary of them all, the former K.G.B. colonel, Vladimir Putin.

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.

All of them shared one feature — all were functionaries of the state.

Nights and weekends were sacred, because functionaries of that sort tend to have suburban family lives.

For the functionaries of the R.T.C., however, he harbors deep contempt.

"Priests are not functionaries of the Vatican," Tomasi told the committee.

In the case of Arabic, that community consisted of a number of functionaries of the Islamic court and, especially, bureaucrats and chancery officials.