Sentence examples for servants properly from inspiring English sources

Only a state that can raise the money to pay its civil servants properly will be able to raise the money to, er, pay its civil servants properly.

This is not only desirable in itself, it will also reduce the power of officials to extort rents from Nigerian business.Given the government's precarious finances, paying public servants properly will not be easy.

Training can help employees recognise that process as it unwinds.Multinationals can also help in the fight against bribery by encouraging the governments of corrupt countries in which they operate to reward their civil servants properly (ie, pay more to fewer of them).

Those who do turn up often find that there is no budget for day-to-day running costs.Exorcise the ghostsOne way to free up funds to pay civil servants properly would be to reduce their number, starting with the unknown but certainly huge number of "ghost" workers who get paid even though they are dead, or who never existed in the first place.

As he was the guy in the Lords responsible for making sure that his colleagues, his fellow public servants, behaved properly, the notion of "double standards" covers him much less impressively than that unfortunate bra.

It follows that, if the state genuinely pursues a policy of discussion and negotiation with civil servants and attempts properly to fulfill agreements with them, it should in return be freed from the threat of strike action.

And was he, by the way, a servant or more properly a slave?

But I encourage public servants to report it properly".

He told MPs he had set up his own investigation in 2012, after he felt civil servants were not "focusing" properly on delivering the changes.

Transport ministers may have placed too much trust in the assurances of civil servants that the bids had been treated properly and fairly.

Several New Testament texts exhort slaves to obedience (the Vulgate servi, which is normally and properly translated "slaves", is in the Douai version translated "servants"): "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward" (1 Peter 2 18).