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There is much speculation that Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang is about to appoint a generalist civil servant better known for his personal loyalty than for his financial expertise.
As a result, finance eventually became the master of the world economy, rather than its servant.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that Europe should be a partner, not a servant or a rival, of the US.
He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.
But he was a senior civil servant, and seemed to be the only technocrat who could credibly hold together Hong Kong’s disaffected civil service, which China knew was indispensable to governing the territory, regardless of its British heritage.
He is an outstanding hard-working civil servant and a good reformer.
Its choices should not be seen as a threat to Russia, but its independence does demand a new relationship with Russia – one of equals, not that of master and servant.
Almost the only concrete outcome was the commissioning of a report by a group chaired by a senior French civil servant, Philippe Jurgensen, on whether intervention was an effective instrument against the volatility that seemed to be undermining trade relations.
The highest level civil servant or chief justice of the Supreme Court at the end of their careers is nowadays paid barely half the salary of graduates of India's elite educational institutions, who are snapped up by the global economy.
No civil servant, military officer, or professor is able to buy even a modest apartment, unless they have an additional – often illegal – source of income.
This high-handed attempt to highjack the ECB and make it a servant of the European Parliament would mean chronically low European interest rates and a depreciated euro.
By contrast, immigrants in Western Europe were invited to fill low-status jobs, creating a built-in incentive for natives to see them and their children as a servant class, incapable of entering, let alone leading, the larger society.
It was created in 1945 to be the servant of its member states, and Article 2.7 of its charter protects the sovereign jurisdiction of its members.
Geithner is a very smart and experienced public servant.
A Londoner, as Keynes put it, could send his servant to fetch any amount of foreign currency, and he could invest his sterling wherever he wished.
Failing that, the IMF needs a no-nonsense British civil servant who looks at the facts instead of schmoozing finance ministers, who judges financial risks instead of cultivating politicians with long records of failure.
Photographs of Locke carrying his own daypack and buying coffee at Starbucks – humble acts that high-ranking Chinese officials would have underlings do – spurred a flurry of online posts celebrating him as a virtuous public servant.
The US must accept this principle, and recognize that Europe is a partner, not merely a servant, whether willing or unwilling, of American orders.
But, given that Mali lacks political parties with popular support, candidates who command respect, and a permanent polling-station system, an election held so soon would probably bring an international civil servant to power – an outcome that could reignite internal conflicts.
Once the space served as a vestibule, but, given the room's historic function, perhaps it should be called an antechamber - a place watched over by an armed guard or servant.
The president names the head of the armed forces, a power that could potentially turn the military into a servant of the government.
But, just when America’s Sino-centric Asia policy became noticeable, Japan put the US on notice that it cannot indefinitely remain a faithful servant of American policies.
The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
It was Hammarskjold who, at the height of the Cold War, first argued that an impartial civil servant could be “politically celibate” without being “politically virgin.”
And the temptation to consider oneself the incarnation of the state, rather than its servant, is often irresistible among southern European politicians.
Wasn’t Dylan alluding to something similar when, after years of struggle for civil rights, resistance to the war in Vietnam, and support for the feminist revolution, he titled one of his most beautiful songs “I’m Not There,” as in, I’m not here anymore, no longer your servant, goodbye to all that, so long?
The status of permanent civil servant, marked by a special reciprocal obligation of loyalty, was created by the Prussian state in order to fill strategically important positions with people who could be fully trusted.
With no safe haven at hand, everyone – even non-members – became a servant of the Communist Party.
Whatever may happen, I as the people's loyal servant am with them all the way.
As a senior public servant, he knew that the construction was illegal, and that he should have taken remedial steps to legalize his actions or to abandon it – a matter merely of money, of which he has plenty.
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