| A special functionary, the muezzin, intones a call to prayer to the entire community at the appropriate hour. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide. |
