bureaucrat
Example Sentences
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Monday’s column featured Steve Swedberg making the case that airport security is too important to be left in the hands of federal bureaucrats.
A Justice Department official said leadership officials were obligated to intervene when bureaucrats make moves inconsistent with the agency’s enforcement policies.
That sparked an administrative sprint, with organizers and bureaucrats working overtime to clear the horses in time.
They sent a lower-ranking bureaucrat to sign it—a diplomatic snub.
For the latter half of samurai history, armor was a facade, a largely symbolic display of authority for an archetypal military class whose members became bureaucrats and eventually pop-culture icons.
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