Nearly all its members had been to Cambridge and came from distinguished upper-middle-class families; i.e., without being aristocrats or large landowners, they were accustomed to efficient servants, first-rate meals, good silver and linen, and weekends in country houses.
On whose behalf would Scottish civil servants seconded to trade negotiations argue?
Leadership is about being a servant first.
You were the servant of the people of the State of New York and America, but always God's servant first.
The warning signs about Fust begin when Gutenberg's servant first announces the surprise visitor -- as Faust.
J. Vincent & Ms R. Porter: Those leading very affluent lives employ this type of servant (first letters).
You're a servant, first of the composer, and like the composer, of the poet, of the public.
Speakers at the ceremony -- from Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton -- recalled Mr. Moynihan's career as a public servant, first as an aide in the 1950's to New York Gov. Averell Harriman, then in the administrations of four presidents and, finally, since 1977, as a senator.
Far from disappearing from view, Patten has re-invented himself as a politician-turned-public servant, first in Hong Kong, for the past year working away at the horribly difficult question of policing a fissured Northern Ireland and soon to be the Tory-nominated Commissioner for External Affairs and Enlargement at the European Union.
She's a public servant first".
But I have been her servant first, last and always.
