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But the government must overcome the spoilers, such as senior civil servants and the Remain majority in the House of Commons, who favor a Brexit in name only – a “false” version that could never deliver the benefits of the real thing.
When regimes lose legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens, it is not reasonable to derive one’s information mainly from that regime’s servants and sycophants.
Elites must give up their privileges, and regulations on corporate governance must limit collusion between managers and civil servants or politicians.
Public servants have few defenses when attacked so openly by prominent politicians.
Criticism of large European transfer payments may have some justification, say, insofar as French, Greek, and Italian civil servants could indeed retire young.
But treating the civil service as a potential enemy was clearly stupid, as only the civil servants know how the government actually works.
The rules that govern politicians' behavior must not be written as if disinterested, well-intentioned public servants will apply them.
The influence and effectiveness of diplomats and international civil servants will increasingly depend on the extent to which they can mobilize scientific and technical expertise in their work.
Consider “Downton Abbey,” a British period drama that follows the lives of the Crawley family and its servants in the family’s classic country house, from 1912 to the mid-1920s.
Decades of control over education and culture budgets have produced a formidable clerisy, including legions of political apparatchiks, civil servants, writers, academics, teachers, NGO workers, journalists, and TV producers, among many others.
As they crowd into Hong Kong over a short period of time, their presence may cause some difficulties for Hong Kong’s highly respected civil servants who try to maintain the high standards of Hong Kong’s market environment, with its impartial enforcement of the laws and fair competition.
But, above all, it is an honor and a privilege to play such a role in our society, and I know that the vast majority of officials, legislators, judges, and civil servants with whom I’ve worked would agree.
Elected and unelected government officials alike, including cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and civil servants, were implicated in corruption scandals.
Salaries for all public servants, a majority of the national work force, were raised, as was the total number of public-sector jobs.
What if Trump openly defied a court decision and ordered civil servants to act in violation of it?
In Turkey, Friday prayers are written by civil servants in the 70,000-member State Directorate of Religious Affairs, and all Turkish imams also must be civil servants.
At the same time, the automatic tax audits and asset-disclosure requirements that have been in place since 2016 have been expanded to apply to a greater number of civil servants; and the definition of “conflict of interest” has been stretched ever further.
The bill’s wording also allows prosecution of civil servants, journalists, and activists who expose official wrongdoing.
Voters entrust politicians with becoming informed – making full use of public servants, information, and analysis – and weighing alternatives with a long-term, big-picture perspective.
And one can easily understand civil servants’ strong reluctance to disregard legal obligations and risk criminal liability for breach of trust.
Of Saints and ServantsMOSCOW: In July 1918, the last Tsar, Nikolai II, his family, three servants and a doctor were executed by a Cheka firing squad in a cellar in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg.
The four servants who died with the Tsar’s family, however, were not canonized.
Our family, all through the Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev years, also had servants.
We never called them servants, however; it was not a polite word.
When reading tales as a girl about kings and grandees surrounded by servants, my child’s heart wept at those crimes against equality and justice.
So Russia’s Church blessed the last Tsar but forgot his servants.
The electricity that people in rich countries consume is, on average, equivalent to the energy of 56 servants helping them.
Even people in Sub-Saharan Africa have electricity equivalent to about three servants.
At the same time, China must reduce the incentive for graft, by raising the pay of public servants at all levels.
The homes of several senior civil servants have been raided recently as part of corruption investigations, and serious accusations of sexual harassment have been leveled against India’s top environmentalist, Rajendra Pachauri, who headed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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