Sentence examples for servants known from inspiring English sources

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.

Unfortunately, these rules go out of the window for academies, which are overseen by the eight senior civil servants known as regional schools commissioners, advised by a small panel of headteachers.

The threat to veto the money for the D.A. amounted to, according to the prosecutor, two different kinds of felonies: a "misuse" of government property, and a corrupt attempt to influence a public official in "a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty" or "to violate the public servants known legal duty".

But a union of 18,000 senior civil servants known as the FDA is not convinced.

But he found no evidence that ministers or civil servants knew about the kickbacks.

Little happened in Whitehall during Mr Blair's last year in power, for civil servants knew that long-term commitments could be undone by his successor.

Then I can include the innkeeper's backstory, and people won't be distracted wondering how the servants know all those details about him".

Ministers and civil servants know that if they keep faith with corporations in office they will be assured of lucrative directorships in retirement.

Researchers and civil servants know a lot about the individuals who claim hundreds in, say, employment support allowance: every last cough, spit and missed appointment at the jobcentre.