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How to use functionary in a sentence

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But they should abandon the illusion that the news manager can be dropped as an official functionary.
A few days later a senior RSS functionary was knifed to death by unknown assailants in the district.
Adjara had been ruled since Georgian independence as a personal fiefdom of Aslan Abashidze, a former minor functionary.
And, like it or not, spectators assume you're another campaign functionary, not the hired help.
Article 41 states that citizens have the right to criticize and make suggestions regarding any state organ or functionary.
I'd be sharing decisions with the other guy, the reptile, the functionary whose usual job was to stoke the boiler and run the air and water intakes.
At the end, he should present a written report of his achievements and learning experiences to the chief functionary of Mass Education.
Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide.
A special functionary, the muezzin, intones a call to prayer to the entire community at the appropriate hour.
The position of Lord High Steward of England, not to be confused with the Lord Steward, a court functionary, is the first of the Great Officers of State.
A few days later, a studio functionary called to say the offices were to be vacated.
The next predictable step was to appoint from among the clan a functionary whose duty was to report on clan members who committed offences against national law.
Needing someone to run against, Mr Saleh got people to nominate a functionary from his own party as the only other candidate.
Tax-dodging tycoons have also angered regular folk who are already fed up with rampant graft that has put many a government functionary behind the wheel of a fancy car.
He was promoted from high military functionary to commander of the army on marrying the daughter of the bey.
For doing all such activities and acting as an important functionary for the government, the monthly wages being paid to him are too meager to be taken into consideration.
The Lord Chancellor, formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom.
It is unacceptable for a functionary such as Strauss-Kahn to have pre-empted his institution's own report with ill-informed comments about the supposed unfeasibility of a financial transactions tax.
There isn't, for example, much to be said for Abraham Walkowitz, a doggedly faithful Stieglitz gallery functionary who had a thing for Isadora Duncan and drew — maladroitly — her scantily draped figure countless times.
Years later, she discovered that the man who had ordered her torture, a notorious Derg functionary called Kelbessa Negewo, had emigrated to the United States and was working as a bellhop at a hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It means, of course, when the functionary in question is a man who has his wits about him.
He found that functionary and the vice-consul in a state of great agitation.
It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.
He pressed the button on his desk, and, as the doorman appeared, addressed that functionary.
Laurent chinked some pieces of gold before the functionary, who began to smile.
His own clothes were at once appropriated by that functionary, who carried them into his cabin.
The functionary who is called Alcayde of the carcel at Havana confused the men.
Opposite to this functionary was a bench whereon the witnesses were placed.
I do not know if this be true, but of the functionary we might say as often as not, he does not think, he is thought.
Crawling in after the functionary, Jack handed him the letter.
Justice Parsons, of Gloucester, was a functionary of this sort.
Half an hour's walk brought him there, and the functionary was at home.
A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper.
The commission agent is an important functionary in agricultural marketing.
The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to calculate successfully.
The Brotherhood's formidable political machine got out the vote for Morsi, an unknown, uncharismatic functionary who was brought in at the last minute.
Aramis's early visit, from that moment, seemed to possess consequences, which a functionary such as he was, was perfectly justified in apprehending.
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