Sentence examples similar to servants on behalf of from inspiring English sources

We ask that he be remembered as a good husband, father and grandfather and a dedicated servant on behalf of the rights of women everywhere".

The Observer said the report, compiled by a senior civil servant on behalf of Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, discounts the theory that anyone else was involved in the July 7 attack.

But he said the current set-up - where civil servants work on behalf of different governments - worked well and continuity brought great benefits, citing the example of senior Treasury official Michael Ellam who has worked for Ken Clarke, Gordon Brown and George Osborne.

The legal concept, which dates to the Middle Ages and the days of servants acting on behalf of their masters, requires consideration of how the illegal actions relate to an employee's normal duties, Dolin said.

Smith's move from the regulator to a supermarket he had been regulating in October 2012 was approved by the prime minister after guidance from the advisory committee on business appointments (ACOBA), on condition that Smith did not lobby civil servants or ministers on behalf of Tesco for two years.

Mr. Pataki yesterday praised Mr. Marino as "a distinguished New Yorker," adding: "While we had our differences over the years, Senator Marino was a dedicated public servant who worked on behalf of the people of this state for many years".

His recipe for change largely involves the extension of the idea of shareholder value from a merely financial concept into the full range of human wellbeing, with a focus on environmental and other sustainabilities, on corporate responsibility and on "servant leadership" (leadership on behalf of colleagues rather than by domination).

The unions, meanwhile, want a similar arrangement to the one agreed on behalf of civil servants and workers in education and the NHS.

Nor will he lobby government ministers, civil servants or fellow-MPs on behalf of Fluor, let alone about its interest in Sellafield clean-up contracts.

The people spending aid money these days are more likely to be civil servants in suits, working on behalf of the world's poor than nurses in uniforms.

As The Economist went to press, the bank's executive directors civil servants who oversee the bank on behalf of member governments—had yet to pass judgment on the deal Mr Wolfowitz struck for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, in August 2005.