Sentence examples for servants sought from inspiring English sources

MPs engaged me in email conversations, civil servants sought me out on Twitter and the great British public commented on my articles.

They were among 75 civil servants sought in a corruption investigation led by the city's top prosecutor, who has asked the Congress to impeach Mr. Espinosa, now the tourism minister, on fraud charges.

As The Economist recently wrote, airport construction in Japan has been stimulated in part by "fanciful traffic assumptions" dreamt up by civil servants seeking cushy retirement sinecures.

"In a country where corruption is rampant, it's very good to show that there are Brazilian public servants seeking the best possible bargain," says Otto Licks, an intellectual-property lawyer in Rio de Janeiro.

"The public's right to know what governments do in our name is being overridden by public servants seeking to cover up a scandal in order to persecute and prosecute a whistleblower.

The Labour deputy finds himself at the shoulder of Mr Dacre, whose paper last Thursday carried the front page headline "Just who do they think they are?" as it criticised the "so-called public servants" seeking to keep the public "in the dark about their greed, incompetence and corruption".

Those familiar with the workings of the United Nations must ask: Why should drowsy diplomats and sleepy civil servants seek out Ambassador Alain Dejammet's napping nooks ("12 Places to Get 40 Winks: A Guide for Diplomats," United Nations Journal, April 12) when they can repair to the United Nations Medical Service for a proper, discreet sleep in one of its "resting rooms"?

Last Thursday, Your Humble Servant sought out Browne and Royster in the Public Information office.

Cabinet Office ministers Matthew Hancock and Oliver Letwin instructed that the second grant should go ahead after Mr Heaton invoked the rarely-used "ministerial  direction" procedure, in which a civil servant seeks written instruction from a minister to act.

And it is the city's lackluster image — as much as taxes or budgets or crime — that has been a recurring theme in the bitter and still unresolved race for mayor between Kevin Johnson, the former professional basketball star, native son and local businessman, and Heather Fargo, a career public servant seeking her third term as mayor.

Martin Luther King channeled no fury, but only sought to cleanse white America as any good servant seeks to serve his masters.