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Government officials   /gˈəvərmənt əfˈɪʃəlz/   Listen
Government officials

noun
1.
People elected or appointed to administer a government.  Synonym: officialdom.






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"Government officials" Quotes from Famous Books



... Judge Drummond said that the "Mormons" were traitors to the United States, and would not obey its laws; that they had a secret organization whose duty it was to murder all who opposed them; that the court records had been burned; that the government officials were in danger of their lives, etc. Like reports were made by other persons, and the result was that a strong feeling was created in the East against ...
— A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Nephi Anderson

... replied the customer. "I endorse it, but government officials do not. They feel very sore, and will make trouble for you if ...
— From Boyhood to Manhood • William M. Thayer

... financiers in Galicia and Roumania. I doubt whether a more liberal Germany will wish to put the control of a great business in the hands of the government, thereby greatly increasing the number of government officials and the weight of government influence in the country. Heaven knows there are officials enough to-day in Germany, without turning over a great department of private industry to the government for the sole purpose of making good bad investments of ...
— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard

... greatly interested in the work of the Government officials and soldiers who were there upholding the cause of civilization. These men appealed to me; in the first place, because they reminded me so much of our own officials and soldiers who have reflected ...
— African and European Addresses • Theodore Roosevelt

... for a few moments. He had heard that Government officials were hard to move, and knew that, in hot countries, Englishmen who marry native wives sometimes grow apathetic and succumb to the climatic lethargy. But this was not all: he had to contend against the official dislike of anything informal ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss


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