Under Pope Benedict, Father Lombardi was a mere functionary who had no direct access to the pontiff.
For the next decade, he worked in obscurity, either as a minor functionary or in labor camps.
In that moment when the functionary at BMW offered me any 3-series I wanted, I succumbed to maximalism.
Critics dismissed him as "The Weathervane, " a functionary whose ideology and loyalty shifted according to the slightest political breeze.
After six years in the job he was made a functionary in Ukraine.
Singh was merely the rubber-stamp functionary, and not the force behind those reforms.
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Things fell apart quickly and soon, a senior Congress functionary was openly calling the yoga guru a "a thug".
Livingstone, 37, has long been a low-level functionary in Democratic Party politics with more background in political work than in security.
She asks him a question about the plight of street children in New Delhi, which he passes on to a junior functionary.
Needing someone to run against, Mr Saleh got people to nominate a functionary from his own party as the only other candidate.
The typical Afghan functionary would decorate his office with a bouquet of fake silk flowers, but Audin, the gaudy usurper, felt compelled to jam a dozen of them in every nook and cranny.
Effective power ebbed away from the presidency and into the hands of the new prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov a former intelligence chief whose background as a loyal Soviet functionary sent a reassuring message to communists and the military.
And in any case, Abu Ghaith was known as a "functionary" in the al-Qaida network, rather than a leader, and as such was far less likely to inspire reaction from bin Laden's followers, said Balboni, New York's former deputy secretary of public safety.
By the 1980s the state gas sector that ran the operation was controlled by a classic Soviet functionary, Victor Chernomyrdin, and he held on tight to his post until 1992, a year after Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected leader of Russia.
We also must know whether he agrees with the UN functionary who is the driving force behind its Millennium Project, Harvard professor Jeffrey Sachs, who insists that a new "global tax" on carbon emissions is required to underwrite his agenda for spreading the wealth around.
But it also seems clear that Prokhorov, a man with property holdings all over the world and substantial international exposure as the owner of an NBA franchise, is much more independent, and more capable of striking independent political positions, than a party functionary in the old Soviet system.
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At that point she becomes an obsessive organizer of the search, and a compulsive scourge of anyone who threatens to stand in her way. (One fatuous Pakistani functionary insists that the abduction is an Indian plot.) Given Angelina Jolie's celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn't happened.
Harold and Erica go to good schools, and pass through a series of haute bourgeois jobs museum curator, freelance consultant, corporate marketing functionary, author of mid-list historical biographies until, finally, the hyper-achieving Erica arrives as the chief executive of a cable company, and the ponderous Harold scores a sinecure at a neocon think tank, where he pastes David Brooks opinion columns into papers on public policy.
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There was even greater surprise when, 14 years later, the former party functionary with no current party post, no elected national office and little government experience (just four years as education minister, between 1988 and 1992), not only imposed himself as the Socialists' presidential candidate, but went on to take the lead in the first ballot, before winning a thoroughly creditable 47% in the run-off.
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