Sentence examples for petty officials from inspiring English sources

Petty officials readily accept them as a bribe.

They hate being bossed around by petty officials and ruled by corrupt autocrats.

Even where governments have ratified it, petty officials can be bribed to turn a blind eye.

An army of petty officials bullied people into communal villages.Tanzanians were loth to share land.

Consequently, many petty officials have decided to take the law into their own hands.

An account of how seriously petty officials in France take their duties.

HE LOOKED an ordinary man, with an ordinary face: a petty official perhaps, somebody who stamps parcels at a post-office counter.

(The Chinese word li here means "a petty official" or "a clerk"; lishu is a style specially devised for the use of clerks).

During Daddyji's early years Lalaji was posted as a "patwari" (petty official who kept tax records) to various villages in the district of Amritsar.

Justice Scalia responded to a comment by Justice Stevens that there were "patriotic citizens" who might "prefer silence to speech licensed by a petty official".

A man who has a trucking business complained that he had to pay a 10 percent bribe to a petty official in order to get a certificate proving he paid a transport tax on his vehicle.