Sentence examples for the functionaries from inspiring English sources
noun
A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.
He thinks the functionaries on the East Coast don't have the knack for wrangling celebrities.
"But on the other hand, the functionaries at film funds only talk about the viewership figures".
For the functionaries of the R.T.C., however, he harbors deep contempt.
The functionaries are here to bring all the key administrative sectors – health, education, security, taxation, banking – in line with Moscow standards.
Makiya envisioned similar things for Iraq, including a South African-style truth commission, where the functionaries of Hussein's regime could confess their crimes without fear of prosecution.
Amusingly, three of the functionaries at the Holy Office are named "Foot", "Redgrave" and "Lord Stansgate", in testimony to Amis's dislike of three well-known 1970s lefty ideologues.
Aside from the smoky pall covering the hills surrounding the park and the gray functionaries behind the customs desk in the building I was in, you could be anywhere.
The functionary was gleeful.
He wondered if the functionary whom he'd insulted had exacted revenge.
France remains a nation of Napoleonic centralism where the functionary's mentality holds sway.
A sweeper woman stopped by for an hour a day, the functionary explained, but afterward things inevitably became filthy again.
