But has any politician worked with a civil servant who really is just like Sir Humphrey?
"He told his ministers to goad the villagers into speaking out, " says a civil servant.
He worked on a cattle station, then as a carpenter, then as a civil servant.
That person does not know the difference between a Civil Servant and a Local Authority employee.
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Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh was a civil servant with a keen nose for business.
She became municipal secretary of finance for Porto Alegre in 1986, her first job as a civil servant.
It would be odd if a government did nothing about a civil servant blabbing damagingly to the media.
In 2005 the average age of a civil servant was 42, three years more than the private-sector mean.
An independent government-commissioned review is one whose author is not a civil servant.
Everything the government does this year will be presented as part of the PAC, says a civil servant in Lula's office.
He's a civil servant, he's exempt from the restrictions on being impartial and political, he's not exempt from telling the truth.
Supposedly, the Duchess and Diez, a civil servant in the department of social security, have been close friends for many years.
Mr Skelton spent 20 years in counter terrorism research as a civil servant and now works to help protect soldiers in Afghanistan.
Clarke's "ideas" began taking shape when - as a civil servant before the war - he started writing tales about outer space.
He discarded the Russian name, got an education and for about 20 years from 1935 was a civil servant, specialising in economic matters.
Mainly Mr Gertz's past: he has been an academic, a businessman, a politician, a civil servant, anything but a policeman or a soldier.
This is a culture of fear, a culture of oppression - of information that's either going to embarrass a civil servant or embarrass a minister.
The then prime minister made the remark in response to a civil servant's memo about the conclusions of the Taylor report into the 1989 tragedy.
Kennedy Federal Building in downtown Boston only twice once for fingerprints and pictures, a second time for an interview with a civil servant to review my application.
Remarkably, that was soon before he publicly endorsed her husband in 2004 for his unsuccessful presidential run, again, a highly unusual act for a civil servant.
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So an affluence test based on the woman's income alone could, for example, catch a civil servant but let off the wife of a merchant banker.
How else, many ask, could you explain the government's unseemly haste to dismiss Shirley Sherrod, a civil servant falsely accused of racism by a right-wing blogger?
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The brilliant but not charismatic Mr Falae was a civil servant, though he served in General Ibrahim Babangida's military government as finance minister in the mid-1980s.
Nazeer is now a civil servant in the British government and he's just written a book, Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism.
Hollinghurst's third novel, The Spell, followed a civil servant whose life is turned upside down when he falls in love with a younger man and discovers Ecstasy.
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More than 68% surveyed considered it acceptable for a civil servant to top up a low salary by accepting small bribes - up from 42% in 2009, it said.
Best hung around the music scene -- he had his own combo in the mid-'60s -- but eventually left the business, working in a bakery and later as a civil servant.
Mr Virgo said Mr Baker had lived alone following the deaths of his parents, worked as a civil servant and had experienced trouble with his hips, which left him walking with a stick.
Mr Ralfe calculates that the new cost for taxpayers of pensions is 31% of a typical teacher's salary, 32% of an NHS employee's salary and 26% of a civil servant's salary - compared with 31% across the board before the reforms.
"Rana Plaza collapsed due to blatant violation of the building code, the use of substandard material and the operation of heavy machinery including generators on the upper floors, " Main Uddin Khandaker, a civil servant who led the panel, said in an interview.
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