Sentence examples for servant known from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rowse is the only British civil servant known to have switched his citizenship to China.

They are run along quasi-colonial lines by a powerful civil servant, known as the political agent, whose duty is to keep the tribes quiet.

Mr. Foster, 63, a career civil servant known for his fierce independence, has been an influential voice on Medicare, Medicaid and the new health care law.

Certainly Mr. Weber would be a very different E.C.B. president compared with Mr. Trichet, a lifelong civil servant known for decorum.

It is a decision that Sir Humphrey, the cunning civil servant known to many Britons through "Yes Minister", a TV comedy, would undoubtedly have described as "courageous".

There was Brother Watch, a midlevel civil servant known for his large collection of luxury timepieces who was convicted of bribery last month, and Grandpa House, a former police chief in Guangdong Province who was accused of using fake identity cards to purchase 192 homes.

Ethan, by contrast, as a management-level public servant knew he could use formal complaints mechanisms to address his experience of bullying by his manager without losing his job.

Misfeasance in public office - malicious action beyond power that the public servant knew would harm the plaintiff[1].

The authorities said thousands of those trafficked were sold as servants, known as restaveks, to well-to-do Haitian families.

Unlike Sarkozy, he studied at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), France's graduate school for civil servants, known as the "factory of the elite".

In so doing, she aimed both to resurrect a moribund Indian art form and to reverse the negative social stereotypes associated with its female practitioners the temple servants known as devadasis, whose obligations to the temple deity involved prostitution.