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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was The Times which reported that the MSC had disclosed the identity of police officers, a civil servant and an army officer to Scotland Yard because it did not believe they were "legitimate sources", since they had allegedly been paid for information.
Mwelu, a retired civil servant, is a volunteer community health worker.
MPs have a free vote on their own pay (although not for much longer, as the government has asked a senior civil servant to recommend a less inflammatory alternative).
Dr. Armendariz is correct insofar as the U.S. owes a significant amount of its success to the legacy of the Roman Republic: separation of power, checks and balances, and a robust civil servant corps, to name a few.
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The court was told that Mrs McCracken, a retired civil servant from Stoke Gifford, was a passenger on a First Bus service on 16 May.
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He still sports the bow-ties he wore as a colonial civil servant, but has recently been seen in a Chinese-collared jacket.
He's been a senior civil servant in several departments since 1997 and is seen as a good operator and adept at getting close to ministers.
Sadik Imret, a retired civil servant, will not accept what he calls "the slurs".
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