Sentence examples for local functionaries from inspiring English sources

In a country where local functionaries jealously guard their powers, he ensured that every capital case had to be reviewed by the highest court in Beijing.

On graduating from college, Chen abandoned medicine and returned to his village to become a "barefoot lawyer": defending ordinary people against the depredations of local functionaries.

Both George Allen and Bill Frist are said to have presidential aspirations for 2008; an alliance with a popular Republican builds ties to local functionaries who could be useful later.

With large amounts of money to dispense for subcontracts and support services, P.L.A. officers have become powerful, striking alliances with Pakistan-sponsored local functionaries, Pakistani bureaucrats and Pakistani businessmen who are profiting from more than 200 mining and other Chinese-run projects.

Meanwhile, in states like Terengganu, also run by UMNO, repressive laws against heresy and apostasy remain on the books, and officious local functionaries occasionally enforce them.In this section Under fire A storm in a teapot Uncooking the books A power shift?

A local functionary named Aimé von Palézieux agitated against Kessler, accusing him of besmirching the Grand Duke's name.

Nysø Manor (1673) near Præstø, Sealand, was built for the local functionary Jens Lauridsen.

As the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza points out, while other possible candidates have been building campaign infrastructure and engaging in the often gruelling work of courting local party functionaries, Ms Palin has done nothing.

- Drew DeSilver: "In short, they're the embodiment of the institutional Democratic Party – everyone from former presidents, congressional leaders and big-money fundraisers to mayors, labor leaders and longtime local party functionaries.

In some cuts, Stepok overhears his father's planning and sneaks out in the night to inform on him; in others, the local Communist Party functionary breastfeeds Stepok's young sister; in still others, Stepok's father says after shooting his son, "They took you from me, but I did not give you to them.

For example, many local experts and functionaries of government departments were male.