Sentence examples for servants were given from inspiring English sources

Civil servants were given two days off and businesses along the procession route were ordered to close.

The second precedent was a Prussian ordinance of 1810 that placed on masters a duty to ensure that their servants were given medical attention in case of illness.

Appointed to the Performance and Innovation Unit, a small team of civil servants were given a vague and innocuous-sounding task: to assess some of the long-term strategic challenges for the UK.

Two public servants were given just two days to assess and cost a two-year home insulation program for more than two million Australian households, an inquiry has heard.

Also, public servants were given excellent compensation packages, secured tenure and autonomy in decision-making.

Newyddion Ar-lein has previously discovered that two police employees resigned in 2012 over misuse of Facebook, while three Welsh government civil servants were given warnings about postings on Facebook or Twitter.

He also called for civil servants be given a hand in shaping civil service reform.

The fund-raising effort has its own name, Rolling Jubilee, a reference to the biblical tradition of a jubilee year, in which all debts are forgiven and all indentured servants are given their freedom.

So, when they all meet, you have the delightful spectacle of two toffs disconcerted by their sudden attraction to a supposed member of the lower orders: equally, the servants are given the chance to parodically ape the pretensions of their employers.

Frequently, presidents and prime ministers have no idea what the roles should be of government spokesmen and, accordingly, low-level civil servants are given these positions without access to top officials and cabinet ministers.

They have been searching the houses today for arms … Servants are giving information of all the arms and soldiers who have been concealed".