Sentence examples for servant at a from inspiring English sources

The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, described Hester as Britain's best-paid civil servant at a time of austerity in the public sector.

Mr. Beame was an honest and unpretentious public servant at a time when history demanded more than he, and perhaps most mayors, could bring to the job.

Public records showed an 11-year-old Jerome Salinger living with his older sister, his parents and a servant at a $200-a-month rental at 215 West 82nd Street at the time of the 1930 census.

Their leader, Jeremiah Brandreth, a former Luddite and, like many of the men, a Methodist, was armed with a musket and shot a servant at a local farmhouse when the owner refused to open up.

In Mayo he'll campaign with Jamie Briggs, who resigned from the ministry in December over unacceptable behaviour involving a female public servant at a bar in Hong Kong, during which he allegedly tried to kiss her on the neck.

In Derek Walcott's 1978 play "Pantomime," Jackson, a black servant at a resort, objects to the presence of a parrot that the current resort owner inherited from a German named Heinegger.

According to the technology blog 9to5 Mac, Apple is expected to introduce a product called Assistant, which will be a servant at an iPhone owner's beck and call.

Similarly, in "Matinée de Septembre" (Lynch's adaptation of "Death in Venice"), the poet Aisling Black, widowed and dying, becomes enchanted by and then obsessed with a beautiful Jamaican girl, a servant at an island resort.

Earlier this year, he talked of plaudits from Stonewall and the proportion of disabled civil servants at a record high.

In 2008 he was accused of assaulting his servants at a Swiss hotel, which led to a diplomatic war between Libya and Switzerland.

However, while the governments have laid down legislation, and Britain continues to be active, on the continent civil servants at a regional level still display xenophobic attitudes.