Sentence examples for servants account from inspiring English sources

"Civil servants account for a significant proportion of our customers," said Panayiotis Doumas, 39, the manager of a men's clothing store in the center of Athens.

A DCLG spokesman said: "The reality is senior civil servants account for less than 5% of the department's workforce, while over a quarter of our staff work across the country.

For Amref, too little effort has been invested in building up local level structures to hold politicians and civil servants to account.

New cutbacks in the public sector, including plans for thousands of layoffs, have fueled a wave of protests by civil servants who account for one in five Greek workers.

Without accurate information, it is impossible for parliament to hold both ministers and civil servants to account in a timely manner, and a danger that problems are hidden rather than faced up to.

A more effective measure is to support the institutions that underpin civil society in subtle ways, such as ensuring an independent judiciary and paying for universal free education, so that citizens have the ability to hold public servants to account.

Virginia Woolf crops up twice, first in Alison Light's Mrs Woolf and the Servants, an account of the Bloomsbury writer's volatile and intensely felt relations with her live-in staff.

Civil servants, who account for the bulk of the workforce, have seen their wages and pensions cut by 20% as part of the belt-tightening programme, the toughest since the second world war.

The report by Democratic Audit shared exclusively with the Guardian notes there have been many positive advances over the last 10 years: stronger select committees of MPs holding ministers and civil servants to account; devolution of power to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and publication of much more information about politicians' expenses and party donors.

Recent hopes that the Arab League might pay Gulf aid direct to civil servants' bank accounts have been dashed after the Americans blocked it, says the presidency.

The leaked memo caused a major row over the weekend because it was a civil servant's account of a private meeting between the Scottish first minister and the French ambassador.