Sentence examples for maintain servants from inspiring English sources

He was entitled to marry several wives and to maintain servants; upon his death his wives and some servants, along with any others who wished to join him in the afterlife, were ritually sacrificed.

My mother had grown up in England with impossibly high housekeeping standards maintained by servants.

Yet he also insisted, up to a point – as most Whitehall officials still maintain today – that civil servants like strong ministers.

"You have a desperate effort by senior civil servants to maintain some control, but they no longer have the power," said Robert Boyer, a senior French economist.

His ambition was too transparent for a regime in which, whatever the realities, senior figures have to maintain appearances of being servants of the people and of the party.

Independent civil servants should maintain a page for every MP that includes contact details (that means an office phone number and address as well as email) and complete voting record.

Her freedom is subversive in all sorts of ways - not least because, while she's frittering away her days with aimless bus-riding and trips to the flicks, The Franchise is literally falling apart for want of servants to maintain it, and Marion, outrageously, is exhausting herself with housework.

Many homes of Old Louisville were originally built as mansions that would require several servants to maintain.

Both civil servants maintained that they had done nothing wrong and that the article was a reflection of the views of senior civil servants at the time.

Mr Campbell replied yesterday to the PCC, maintaining that civil servants "did nothing more than seek to establish what was expected of the prime minister".

All major Dutch cities have designated "bicycle civil servants", tasked to maintain and improve the network.