Sentence examples for servants to go from inspiring English sources

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When civil servants were throwing money out the window to the students, why not call on those civil servants to go on strike?

The railroad made it possible for schoolteachers, engineers, and civil servants to go from London to the Alps in less than twenty-four hours, instead of spending weeks in a stagecoach, according to "The Smell of the Continent," a history of Victorian travel by Richard Mullen and James Munson.

Loyalist forces regained control of the radio station and broadcast an announcement claiming control and ordering students and public servants to go about their normal lives.

Here Sir Richard Verney goes directly to Cumnor Place, forces the servants to go to the market, and breaks Lady Amy's neck before placing her at the foot of the stairs; the jury's verdict is murder, and she is buried first secretly at the Cunmor parish church before being dug up and reburied at Oxford.

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Insecurity makes civil servants reluctant to go to work, and deeply discourages private investment from outside.The new council will have considerable difficulties addressing the power complaints.

The best civil servants tend to go and work with ministers devising policies – leaving the less able with the grunt job of delivering them.

The old ones were faceless functionaries that went wobbling down the streets on various errands, but these are sleek new servants designed to go in every home with trim humanoid bodywork and a blandly smiling face that gives them the air of what in the army used to be called "dumb insolence".

Mr Maude said it was normal for the Government Digital Service - an elite team of IT experts and civil servants - to go into departments for a limited period of time to help build new systems.

"He [Young] remained, at the age of 78, willing to be a public servant, willing to go into Downing Street unpaid, not looking for any personal aggrandisement for himself, just wanting to do the right thing for the country.

They'll offer a single line of accountability for local decision making and spending – something that is vital to convincing central politicians and civil servants to let go of power.

There were three entrances: one in front, for the residents; one in the basement, for deliverymen; and one at street level on the side of the building, for servants -- to "obviate the trouble that invariably arises when servants are compelled to go downstairs to the basement and use the delivery entrance," the Record and Guide noted.

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