The magnificently uniformed functionary in Delhi who demands to see your papers—despite having just watched another functionary inspect them—falls into this category.
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If it weren't him, it would be some other functionary.
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Not everyone is convinced that he was a Kremlin functionary.
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Silk is a minor bureaucratic functionary in a mysterious office in Berlin.
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He is competent but humorless, a party functionary, not a political visionary.
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As a former Socialist Party functionary, Mussolini knew little of art or edifice.
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He is a functionary, chosen in part to dismantle EPA regulations on greenhouse gases.
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He isn't as easy to dismiss as someone they'd call a functionary of the state.
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A Hindu BJP functionary from Uttar Pradesh will not come to Mizoram as a candidate.
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The latest twist concerns a city hall functionary whom Ms Raggi promoted, almost tripling his salary.
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Last night they spoke as though a functionary, an employee, was sitting in the chair himself.
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With her death, the party named a top functionary, O. Panneerselvam, as the new Chief Minister.
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Before Mr. Brooks took the stage, a functionary came out and speed-read a blanket waiver.
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"Why don't I just film some other guy?" a functionary offers to Julia, not so helpfully.
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One of those he met was Narendra Modi, who was then a little-known B.J.P. functionary.
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From being a mere functionary in a political machine, We. The Revolution transforms you into its puppetmaster.
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Bored by the endless preamble, the Son of Heaven had the functionary dragged to the court and flogged.
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Lance Reddick is back as the perfect concierge, an unflappable functionary with a tiny, sly smile for everything.
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"Weather Report" (2016) offers a tribal functionary holding a weathervane, pointing with neoclassical élan toward a cartoon raincloud.
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To succeed where others failed, Sanders can't simply become a functionary, working to reform the Democratic establishment from within.
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In this contentious political season, the show suggests a kind of radically moderate unity ticket of revolutionary and functionary.
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When Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Ms. Nie was a midlevel Communist Party functionary at Peking University.
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You are cursed to serve a functionary purpose on NBA teams of varying quality for the length of your life.
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It's the story of a bounty hunter with no name working for a government functionary known only as The Client.
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No President in recent history has treated his Attorney General solely as a political, or even as a personal, functionary.
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Ryan is not some corrupt functionary, some time-serving Roman official eating grapes while the barbarians come over the wall.
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"One day I'll be your boss," he recalls saying to senior officials, even when he was a midlevel government functionary.
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There, they are giving a party to celebrate Janet's recent appointment as a government functionary of the unnamed opposition party.
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The United States, for example, does not directly elect its secretary of state or, for that matter, any State Department functionary.
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Filling out the cast of central characters is James Samuels, an English functionary at Dublin Castle and would-be African explorer.
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He was an Army officer in World War I. More to the point, he was a political functionary in the Bronx.
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Will he make climate change a top-level issue, as John Kerry did, or will he assign it to a functionary?
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But after the Indian Army chief's promise of pain, the Pakistani government's spokesman declared that he was acting like a B.J.P. functionary.
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He moved from one prominent job to another — including provincial posts where he developed a reputation as an effective and loyal functionary.
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Ding rose through the ranks of the ministry as a human resources functionary, with a reputation for implementing policies, not making them.
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I'd say that, of any important functionary... Meaning you have to go elsewhere for technology, whether it's Israel or China, even. Yeah.
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But one of the most startling moments of the book is a description of the tsunami by a government functionary named Teruo Konno.
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In Hodeidah, a low-level government functionary threatened to detain a CNN team if he did not sit in on a meeting with UN officials.
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Benedict Wong shows up as comic relief, delightful in a film that has no use for him beyond his purely functionary capacity as tension-breaker.
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On February 25, Paris attended an art exhibition with her current partner, Jared, who is also mixed race, at the Public Functionary gallery in Minneapolis.
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As first secretary of Poland's Communist Party, Mr. Kania, a colorless career party functionary, led the government in Warsaw from September 21980 through October 24.
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Whoever he may be, this unexplained use of a supportive male functionary is one of the greatest yet most characteristic oddities of Balanchine ballet theater.
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After Mr. Xi came to power in 2012 and installed a hard-line party functionary to run Xinjiang, the drive to root out dissent here accelerated.
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It has come to his honor's attention that the state functionary of the play's title is in the area incognito, checking up on abuses of power.
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Over the past six months, Porter saw his role in the White House dramatically elevated from behind-the-scenes functionary to one of Trump's chief gatekeepers.
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Throughout Season 1, Eve (Sandra Oh) has transformed from a paper-pushing MI5 functionary to a thriving international spy, determinedly pursuing Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a prolific assassin.
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Antonio Tajani, a centre-right Italian who won the presidency of the chamber on January 17th, is the sort of bland functionary the European Union specialises in.
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The "demon" Michael is not the horrific monster of Catholic tradition but a midlevel functionary who finds himself drawn to the charges he's been tasked to torture.
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Jaczko—a twiggy, earnest bureaucratic functionary who bears an uncommon resemblance to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver—went to Fukushima and was deeply affected by what he saw.
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A functionary in Veracruz of Prospera, a federal social programme, resigned on May 10th after he was caught on tape discussing how to buy votes for the PRI.
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He entered the bureaucracy as a high-level economic functionary, was active in the small socialist groups that preceded the modern Socialist Party and opposed the Algerian war.
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Even creepier was "One for the Road," with Antony Sher as a state functionary careering between charm and brutality as he interrogates three tortured members of a family.
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Hassan Rouhani, though the current president and also a protégé, is too cautious and, as a former intelligence officer, too much a plodding functionary, to defy the establishment alone.
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But as Mr. Baroni described it, he was more of a functionary at the Port Authority, while Mr. Wildstein was its chief link to "Trenton," code for the governor.
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"This is a great loss for all fans of comic movies around the world," Mr. Zhang said, sounding not at all like the stereotype of a Communist Party functionary.
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They included Chen Min'er, 57, who worked as a propaganda functionary with Mr. Xi when they were both officials in the eastern province of Zhejiang in the early 2000s.
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The Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho stars as Don Diego de Zama, a frustrated, possibly delusional functionary of the Spanish Empire who sits stranded in the boondocks, wanting more.
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A modest Breton couple in a rural town — his father is an aviation mechanic, his mother a hospital functionary — adopted him and raised him with their own four children.
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Mr. Fariñas also recalled how, after graduation, Mr. Díaz-Canel became a teacher and party functionary at his university, joining a nationwide campaign to fight "negative tendencies" in Cuba.
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A functionary with a soft middle, he wants no part of Una, though he desires every part of her, including, perhaps, her sometimes hate-filled eyes and her abuse.
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Dispatched to the scene of the accident as President Jimmy Carter's personal envoy, Mr. Denton was transformed overnight from a faceless government functionary into a very visible expert spokesman.
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Mr. Hollande, by all accounts an affable man with a penchant for sly humor, came into office in 2012 as a high-level party functionary with no particular ideological convictions.
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Attorney General Bill Barr has made clear over the past few weeks that he will be the loyal functionary whom Trump has long sought to install atop the Justice Department.
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Making his Met debut as Scarpia, the baritone Claudio Sgura muddled through some lower passages, turning the character into something of a functionary, instead of an evil force of nature.
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In early October Xu Yanjun, a functionary of China's foreign-intelligence agency, was lured to Belgium and then extradited to America on charges of stealing trade secrets from American aerospace companies.
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At every step of the way he has acted less like a potential justice and more like a partisan functionary, desperately clinging to the chance at the job of his lifetime.
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With the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, attention has turned to his replacement, Matthew Whitaker, a GOP functionary who has a long history of extreme statements condemning the Mueller investigation.
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But Mr. Roy scoffs at what he sees as his rival's near-obsessive reliance on the text by Mr. Suri, a onetime functionary of Al Qaeda who broke with Osama bin Laden.
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Barr in the middle of yet another controversy The highly unusual episode over Stone will also fuel concerns among legal experts that Barr is functioning increasingly as a political functionary for Trump.
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Ko Sung-hee stars as an anonymous P.R. functionary at an eyewear company called Prism, which is experimenting with a pair of glasses that will assist in summoning a realistic holographic companion.
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In other words, the fact that a functionary in a sprawling organization envisioned an elaborate plan 25 years ago does not mean that the plan has been put into place, much less successfully.
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Queen Victoria's first encounters with Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), an Indian functionary sent to Britain to present her with a ceremonial coin, are in comedic scenes that lampoon the pomp of her court.
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One Kvartal 95 sketch from the period made fun of the brutality of the riot police; in another, Zelensky played a psychiatric patient who is recruited by a government functionary to go after demonstrators.
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In a moment of doubt, Yevgeny Kopot, a Prigozhin functionary who appears to play a coordinating role for operations in different African countries, sent a text message to a colleague in Madagascar in January.
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The way I read this was that, after so many years as a functionary interpreting what Manafort was saying to party sponsors, leaders, and hacks alike, he had himself become part of the legend.
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A Communist Party functionary in the late Soviet period, he later served as deputy speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, and was appointed deputy governor of the Russian central bank in 22016.
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The businessman was grabbed as part of an continuing corruption crackdown by Nguyen Phu Trong, a functionary in the Communist Party who became its general secretary last year after a bruising internal power struggle.
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His stepfather, a rough-around-the-edges, street-smart Teamsters functionary named Chuckie O'Brien, was one of Hoffa's closest associates — a combination of aide-de-camp, confidant and surrogate son for more than three decades.
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While Mr. Putin sent himself, it was only at the last minute that the Trump administration upgraded its delegate to the forum from a Commerce Department functionary to Matthew Pottinger, Mr. Trump's senior Asia adviser.
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In an internal memo to staff, however, Huawei said Teng Hongfei, the Greater China sales head for its consumer business division, had been detained for "the suspected crime of accepting bribes as a non-state functionary".
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The country's National Archives contains more than 1,000 official seals, some dating to feudal times, that were used by titled nobles, elected politicians and every functionary in between to bash their imprimatur in wax and ink.
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With the disgraced Victor Ponta under indictment, and party leader Liviu Dragnea facing jail time for his second set of corruption and influence-peddling charges, a pliable young functionary named Sorin Grindeanu was installed as prime minister.
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On a visit to Fiji in 2012, Wu Bangguo, a senior functionary, saluted the principle of non-interference, encouraged Fiji to adopt a "Look North" policy and complained about the "bullying" of small countries by big ones.
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"Fully understand that this task is in order to save your relatives and your families," wrote Ms. Maimaiti, a Communist Party functionary who works on the western edge of Xinjiang, in a message that was preserved online.
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A lot of people in the operative class who do this for a living are highly skilled but also a little bit functionary: They move from one cycle to the next, very malleable with platforms and agendas.
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In the letter, Eichmann repeated the defense offered at his four-month trial in 1961: that he was a low-level functionary following orders and that he should not be held accountable for the crimes of his superiors.
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Other books are more hopeful: Jesse Ball's novel "Census" may tell the story of a functionary volunteering to carry out a mysterious government project, but at heart it remains a tender exploration of a poignant father-son relationship.
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In 1981, Weyrich, Viguerie, LaHaye, Republican functionary Morton Blackwell, anti-feminist lawyer Phyllis Schlafly, oil scion Nelson Bunker Hunt, beer magnate Joseph Coors, and some 50 other conservatives began meeting every Wednesday morning in Viguerie's handsome Virginia home.
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ICE can randomly demand that anyone within this enforcement boundary turn up to be interviewed—once, twice, or five times a week if a functionary feels like it—in order to prove they have not violated immigration law.
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But the project fails, mostly because the repression and censorship that Ma Daode carries out as a ham-handed functionary constantly triggers flashbacks to violence he suffered through — and participated in — as a young man during the Cultural Revolution.
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The Saturday Profile ROME — During a visit to Moscow in 19983, Marco Minniti, a bald and bold young functionary in the Italian Communist Party, mortified his comrades by asking a Red Army general why the Soviets had occupied Afghanistan.
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In 1661, Nicolas Fouquet, France's finance minister under Louis XIV, threw a party so ostentatious that it convinced its observers of a long-held suspicion that the erstwhile government functionary was skimming off crown funds for his own benefit.
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Mr. Szymczyk, who had been the director of the Kunsthalle Basel and moved to Athens in 2014 with some of his curatorial team, dismissed the idea that he was, as he put it, a "functionary" of the German state.
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For years an unremarkable Socialist functionary who rose slowly through the ranks, waiting for his turn, Mr. Hollande owed his narrow election in 2012 more to disgust with the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, than to any personal appeal he exerted.
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Manuel Marrero Cruz, 56, an architect and whose nomination was ratified by the National Assembly, is a former functionary of the military-run Gaviota tourism corporation whose hotels have been sanctioned by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Separately, Sputnik carried a news report last Friday about Macron supporters being awarded state decorations when he had been a high-level functionary at the Elysee and economy minister in the Socialist government, suggesting this could amount to influence peddling.
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Not an edition goes by that the Mexican press doesn't report on a PRI governor or government functionary and/or their mistresses fleeing Mexico with millions of pesos and dollars in offshore bank accounts and huge property holdings in America.
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The progressive march of the last century has achieved much of its objective: It has shifted power to the administrative state and away from the citizen and the legislature, it has made state government a federal functionary, and it has marginalized the citizen.
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Mr. Htin Kyaw was widely regarded as an honest but powerless functionary who did the bidding of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate who has been condemned globally for her acquiescence to the military's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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A back-room functionary for decades who dislikes speaking in public, Mr. Beglov has appalled the intellectual elite of Russia's cultural capital — a city that gave the world Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Pushkin and other giants of Russian literature — by mangling the Russian language.
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Both men were and are deeply religious Catholics, which raises the question of whether Pope Francis will ever acknowledge a woman's right to ownership of her body and its reproductive functions, thus pulling the "textual" rug out from under this kind of abusive, functionary thug.
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John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter:: [Kaya] Scodelario, of the Maze Runner films and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, is just about the only member of the cast who seems to believe she's expected to be more than a thin generic functionary or flamboyant scene-stealer.
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I imagine Bronwen Riley's travel companion, Julius Severus, to have been not unlike some upper-class English functionary on his way to a distant imperial posting a century ago — cool, confident, well educated, well mannered, sometimes arrogant and perhaps rather too pleased with himself.
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Mr. Trump most likely hopes that Mr. O'Brien will prove to be not an irrepressible ideologue, a foreign-policy entrepreneur or a consensus-building process expert, but rather a functionary who will provide an official veneer for the president's often outlandish views and moves.
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Set just after the events of Return of the Jedi, the Mandalorian takes a job from an Empire functionary he may not be able to fulfill I understood that this was Star Wars by way of Sergio Leone with a dash of Lone Wolf and Cub.
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Franz Suchomel, a former SS functionary at Treblinka who had been convicted of war crimes and spent six years in prison, told Mr. Lanzmann (in confidence, or so he thought) that it was not true, as some Jews claimed, that 18,000 a day were gassed at Treblinka.
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And his involvement in discussions related to back-channel peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia attracted attention from President Barack Obama's National Security Council, which saw him as a functionary for oligarchs working to sell out Ukraine to Moscow's benefit, a former United States official said.
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An unknown young functionary of the Hollande-Valls government just two years prior, having disaffiliated from the Socialist Party in 2009, the 38-year-old spoke to a crowd of 3,000 individuals and elected officials from both major parties who had joined his new political movement, En Marche!
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The prosecutors' announcement was made just two days after his funeral in Kassel, and after two weeks of speculation about why a popular, if unobtrusive, local functionary could have been killed at his home on a Saturday night with a shot to his head, apparently at close range.
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A recent disastrous story from Bloomberg—in which a right-wing functionary at the Department of Labor lost his job after a reporter at the outlet mistook a sarcastic Facebook post criticizing far-right candidate Paul Nehlen for a sincere endorsement of Nehlen's anti-Semitism—shows that such an effort might even be necessary.
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If the title of Alassane's 1972 feature F.V.V.A (standing for femmes, voitures, villas, argent: girls, cars, mansions, money) recalls a No Limit Records album from the early 2000s, it's not a total coincidence: the picture concerns Ali, a well-meaning functionary in his 20s who finds himself tempted by the finer things available under post-independence capitalism.
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But operating in a formal capacity as a partisan functionary would most likely have required Mr. Romney to stay silent about his disagreements with Mr. Trump, lest he put Republican candidates in the position of having to pick sides between the two men — the sitting president and the best-known Republican senator — on a routine basis.
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Consider the figures who are now in power around Trump: Mike Pence, who is a social conservative who believes in gay conversion therapy; Peter Thiel, who is gay and a social libertarian; Stephen Bannon, who wants to launch an alt-right revolution against the GOP elite; and Reince Priebus, a Republican functionary who is the perfect embodiment of that elite.
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