Sentence examples for servants were not from inspiring English sources

The plaintiff could not properly plead to this declaration that his servants were not guilty of negligence, or that the servants were not his servants.

I would wish that the world were a better place where honest and conscientious public servants were not put in impossible situations such as this.

Downing Street had previously insisted civil servants were not involved in drawing up policies the government would adopt in the event of Brexit.

But the rules were so harsh that civil servants were not even allowed to give their friends, or receive from them, the small gifts that are traditional.

It is not suggested that the defendant himself was present, and it will be argued that upon these pleadings it is not open to the defendant to contend that his servants were not engaged in lowering the barrel of flour.

The memoirs of Margaret Powell, which partly inspired the original series of Upstairs Downstairs and which have just been republished, bristle with the sense that "servants were not real people with minds and feelings.

"Originally, four to five years ago, we looked to be heading for a sustainable energy policy but then the nuclear lobby came in and civil servants weren't able to resist.

"Servants are not allowed to ask questions.

And civil servants are not supposed to be.

Treating hourly wage workers like personal servants is not.

Civil servants are not supposed to care about the opposition.