Under Pope Benedict, Father Lombardi was a mere functionary who had no direct access to the pontiff.
In that moment when the functionary at BMW offered me any 3-series I wanted, I succumbed to maximalism.
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.
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.
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