Sentence examples for of official functions from inspiring English sources

Lord McAlpine: In terms of official functions and, er, functionaries.

Icac has investigated and reported on many matters that it believed met the requirements where conduct could adversely affect the exercise of official functions.

Icac had tried to argue it was corrupt conduct because it could adversely affect the exercise of official functions by the investigating police officers and by a court that would deal with any charges arising from the car accident.

"She will think it's too conservative, because she likes sexy clothes," Ms. Prokopov said, glancing at the Chanel, "but she goes to a lot of official functions, so maybe it will work".

Under the legislation "corrupt conduct" is "any conduct of any person... that adversely affects, or that could adversely affect, either directly or indirectly, the exercise of official functions by any public official" and which could involve certain kinds of misconduct listed, including perverting the course of justice.

He was in alignment with the minority view of Chief Justice Tom Bathurst in the NSW court of appeal in Cunneen v Icac, who assumed that corrupt conduct by anyone under the relevant provision had to meet two conditions: it is conduct that could adversely affect the exercise of official functions, and the same conduct could involve a range of criminal offences.

It fixes its heroes in an abstemious, militarized world of twenty-four-hour-a-day work for mere survival, in which no personal life remains outside the realm of official function, a de-mentalized world that the movie presents, moreover, as appealing.

There has been speculation that she spends tens of thousands on dresses for official functions but a breakdown of her clothing costs was not included in the accounts released on Friday, coming under expenditure for official duties and charitable activities of £9,831,000, up from £9,444,000.

Unlike her mother-in-law, who left the selection of the food for official functions to the chef, Mrs. Bush will choose from the suggested menus and then, like Nancy Reagan, have a trial dinner.

The Commons has announced it will sell its wine cellar though the proceeds will not go to the Exchequer but to fund a larger stock of cheaper wine for official functions.

For them the scope of the defense varied in proportion to the nature of their official functions and the range of decisions that conceivably might be taken in "good faith". This "functional" approach also defined a second tier, however, at which the especially sensitive duties of certain officials -- notably judges and prosecutors -- required the continued recognition of absolute immunity.