| But they should abandon the illusion that the news manager can be dropped as an official functionary. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A few days later a senior RSS functionary was knifed to death by unknown assailants in the district. |
| Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide. |
