Sentence examples for servants were unable from inspiring English sources

The local authorities were unable to help survivors as public servants were unable to report for duty.

The Information Commissioner's office is investigating claims that civil servants were unable to find these emails when asked to retrieve them under the Freedom of Information act.

The emails allegedly include a discussion of replacing personnel in the department but civil servants were unable to find those emails when asked to retrieve them under the Freedom of Information Act, the Financial Times reported.

It says civil servants were unable to find certain emails when asked to retrieve them under a request.

Fast-growing unions of government workers were the exception -- but as unruly public "servants," they were unable to brighten the image of labor.

Civil servants were then unable to find these emails, which included discussions of replacing DfE personnel, when asked to retrieve them under the FOI Act.

The effect, the documents go on to say, has been that civil servants have been unable to determine how many genuine employment vacancies are listed on the site.

If the Greek government were unable to pay customs officials and other public servants, frontiers could become more porous still, opening the way to more crime and illegal migration into the European Union.

In some societies indentured servants probably differed little from debt slaves (i.e., persons who initially were unable to pay off obligations and thus were forced to work them off at an amount per year specified by law).

Many were unable to work.

Many were unable to swim.