Sentence examples for potential servants from inspiring English sources

"How many good potential servants have become poor stenographers because of the odium of the name 'Bridget'?" she asked rhetorically.

He adds that the "greatest challenge" is probably to change the civil service's culture, saying "younger, high potential civil servants" had been asked to draw up plans to address this.

The ruling has the potential to make "indentured servants out of employees," said Hillary Richard, an employment lawyer in New York.

As part of the reform package, the government has agreed to dispense with the link between age and compensation, effectively increasing the rate at which younger civil servants accrue their potential entitlement.

The episode raised the difficult question of how to weigh the public's right to know against the potential harm in naming a public servant.

Civil servants are weighing up the potential unpopularity of the move, and the risk of it worsening the existing shortage of NHS nurses, against it potentially freeing up about £800m a year for the government.

The inquiry comes after Scottish finance secretary John Swinney complained that advice given to George Osborne from top Treasury civil servant Sir Nicholas Macpherson about a potential currency union had crossed the line of civil service impartiality.

This led policy makers, researchers and civil servants to consider and explore the potential of diversified farming systems (DFS) to address current problems in agriculture.

And unfortunately, anyone in the service industry can tell you that solely relying on the kindness of strangers has the potential for us to end up as indentured servants instead of servers.

A baroque bureaucracy, something economists have long warned slows the potential for growth here, and low pay for public servants leads to peso-greased shortcuts for the simplest transactions.

They should also consider the potential pitfalls of reforms that first focus on civil servants, especially when the use of public funds potentially compromises coverage for other citizens.