Sentence examples for just a functionary from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Hunter said he was "just a functionary".

On Mr Cable, he added: "He's indeed a soothsayer of some importance, but I'm just a functionary who would make things happen, but it would be very difficult to do so... It's a coalition and all views are welcome".

I remember starting out and my agent said 'does the character change the situation or is he just a functionary' and this character changes the situation.

First, Arendt reveals the ground for her belief that Eichmann was no ideological Nazi but, in fact, was just a blind functionary.

Izzard was standing in the aisle admiring the spectacle when a functionary came up to him and told him he'd just won the festival's Amstel Light jury prize for best one-person show.

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

And always there's a functionary, somberly listing what he does.

The Jin prefect was no more than a functionary, in contrast to the feudal practice.

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

He is more of a functionary than a potential leader; an apparatchik.

There was no time to wonder who their author was — a functionary under the spell of his politically accrued charisma?