Servants in a sentence

Pandemonium filled the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja on Wednesday as the National President, Ayuba Wabba, engaged in a fight with civil servants who demanded explanations over a failed housing scheme for public servants.

Politicians and not civil servants should make any "exceptionally difficult decisions" on Stormont's public finances, a union representing senior civil servants has said.

Remember the office of president is NOT based on the British king (that goes to the Congress or the states or the people), but on the king’s servants (what we now call a prime minister) – and the king’s servants never had immunity.

Researchers have since speculated that they might have been servants or slaves, or possibly children of servants or slaves residing in the house.

For a leader who chose his policies with less thought than he did his military uniforms, it is not surprising that he treated his civil servants with less respect than he did his personal servants.

However, local government staff were paid less on average than the overall figure for civil servants, though the overall figure for civil servants was higher than the national average.

I’ve got a question that doesn’t fit into our issue areas, but that is one of the questions of the week, which is Bill 21 in Quebec, which will forbid public servants, which today forbids public servants from wearing religious signs including teachers.

How is it that when you bar public servants from engaging in other professional services, you allow legislators who are also public servants to open petrol pumps and argue cases in courts?

They could have become a two-tier society, with natives each having an entourage of servants (a larger scale of America recent history, where the upper middle class now has servants cleaning its homes and caring for its childcare).

Hindenburg resented this bill in case it was not amended to exclude all Jewish veterans of World War I, Jewish civil servants who served in the civil service during the war and those Jewish civil servants whose fathers were veterans.

Indentured servants from India travelled to British colonies in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and also to French and Portuguese colonies, while Chinese servants travelled to British and Dutch colonies.

In some castles the kitchen was retained in the same structure, but servants were strictly separated from nobles, by constructing separate spiral stone staircases for use of servants to bring food to upper levels.

Likewise outside of that gate are an old house for the servants, a good table, long and divided, and to the east of the principal building, beyond the smaller stable, a solar for the use of the servants.

Some children undertook work as apprentices to respectable trades, such as building, or as domestic servants (there were over 120,000 domestic servants in London in the mid 19th century).

The servants lament the hard "work" Higgins does ("The Servants' Chorus").

About 155,000 federal public servants have been on strike since April 19. While wages are a primary sticking point, the union also wants remote work included in its collective agreement.

About 50,000 civil servants can use the technology.

According to the parallel National Unity Government (NUG), over 400,000 civil servants refused to work for the regime and joined the CDM following the coup.

Addressing the federation's Workers' Day gathering in Durban, Vavi said the government needed to pay civil servants a minimum living wage of R75 per hour or R12,500 per month.

A file photo of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (middle) with Lagos Civil Servants during a working visit to the State Secretariat, Alausa, on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.