Sentence examples for obscure official from inspiring English sources

The king patched together a disparate ministry of moderates and ultras headed by an obscure official, Jean-Baptiste-Sylvère Gay, vicomte de Martignac.

Nobody knows how the Senate parliamentarian, an obscure official who advises the presiding officer, would rule on any of these complicated issues.

Working with Mr. O'Keefe, he also used heavily edited video clips to savage Ms. Sherrod, an obscure official at the Agriculture Department, by giving the appearance that she had made racially motivated financing decisions, when actually she had done the opposite.

The lords would send aides to these restaurants to conduct business on their behalf, usually preferring obscure officials to evade notice by rivals and spies.

Second, in both cases a government released the identity of a relatively obscure public official in order to further its political ends.

The challenge, as they see it, is how to rise above a town that can obsess for a week on whether an obscure Agriculture Department official in Georgia should have been fired.

In 1998, while working for a Petrobras unit involved in a pipeline to import natural gas from Bolivia, she met Ms. Rousseff, then an obscure energy official in Rio Grande do Sul, a southern Brazilian state.

For Baldwin, who was straining to finish a novel and pay personal debts, the place to turn for cash was neither the government nor any literary agent but to a relatively obscure foundation official named W. McNeil Lowry.

Doctors Without Borders called it "unprecedented, really shocking testimony," but it wasn't a one-time gaffe from an obscure agency official.

Next, the Senate Parliamentarian — an obscure unelected official who is the keeper of the legislative body's rules — will have to determine if the bill will qualify for reconciliation.

One obscure Republican official from Suffolk County, New York, emerged from a ten-minute audience announcing that the Leader of the Free World had agreed to take a closer look at the problems of his local sewage district.