Sentence examples for the first servant from inspiring English sources

He posed as the first servant of an empire over which the Roman Senate presided, and it would appear that his claim to have accepted no office inconsistent with ancestral custom was literally true.

It's not just that one has to agree with Stalin all the time, one also has to maintain the illusion that free discourse is possible; otherwise the fantasy that Stalin has been freely chosen to lead the people – that he is the first servant, as it were – is destroyed.

His father is a far cry from the third servant.

But the third servant simply held onto the money, afraid of taking any chances, and was berated for the failure.

But any reader of the Bible will know that lessons like this can go either way - that had the first two buried their talents and the third servant doubled his, he could easily have been accused of greed and also cast out.

Or was it, rather, a parable about the cost of standing up to authority, of being a whistle-blower like the third servant, who calls his master a "hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown?" Was it about the courage to face down totalitarianism and its rich apparatchiks?

Kalidasa remakes the story into a love idyll whose characters represent a pristine aristocratic ideal: the girl, sentimental, selfless, alive to little but the delicacies of nature, and the king, first servant of the dharma (religious and social law and duties), protector of the social order, resolute hero, yet tender and suffering agonies over his lost love.

Not only did the title aim at identifying the new Russia with European political tradition, but it also bespoke the new conception of rulership and of political authority that Peter wanted to implant: that the sovereign emperor was the head of the state and its first servant, not the patrimonial owner of the land and "father" of his subjects (as the tsar had been).

But formally the States-General had been sovereign since 1588, and the Stadtholder was merely their "first servant".

Omand is not the first civil servant to describe this world to us.

On the government Referring to Mr Blair's first "servants of the people" speech: Good instincts.