What's the difference between functionary and governmental?

Functionary


Definition:

  • (n.) One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.
  • (2) Recently an AfD functionary called for the death penalty to be introduced so that the government could be “placed against a wall” and shot.
  • (3) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
  • (4) But Fifa's blazered functionaries are already talking about the possibility of holding the 2010 tournament in two African countries.
  • (5) This involvement is reflected not only in the rise of for-profit providers, but also in the influence of hospital administrators, utilization review organizations, insurance bureaucrats, and other functionaries unfamiliar with the clinical encounter, but well versed on the bottom line.
  • (6) How much influence will the many other senior RSS functionaries currently in top posts in the BJP have if the party takes power?
  • (7) The only statistically significant difference in levels of self-reported dental anxiety in relation to social background factors was between female labourers (high level) and female functionaries (low level).
  • (8) There was a significant and positive relationship between maternal knowledge and functionary knowledge of the growth chart (GC), and coverage of children for GM.
  • (9) Torture has been defined by the United Nations (declaration of December 9, 1975) as "every act by which a public functionary (or another person at his instigation) intentionally inflicts on another person serious pain or suffering, ...physical or mental, with the object of obtaining information or of punishing him...or of intimidating that person or others."
  • (10) This is imperative because functionaries from both governments are, sadly, pushing their negative emotion out into their nations’ media.
  • (11) These allegations are being pinned not to minor functionaries but senior members of the politburo.
  • (12) "Their functionaries share with us their reproach of the 'radical' Swedes and Czechs, with their human rights priorities, and can't wait for 'moderate' Spain to take over the EU presidency."
  • (13) Adrenoceptors of the bronchi and the lung show a special pattern of distribution and response, ensuring that the airway system works as a functionary unit.
  • (14) Another, less diplomatic dispatch sent to a functionary of the British embassy said simply: “Your new boss is a plonker.” Some, however, believe Johnson is the right man for the job.
  • (15) Even if a court were involved in the acquisition of these records - and that's unlikely here - it typically does little more than act as rubber-stamping functionary, just as it does when secretly approving the DOJ's requests for FISA warrants.
  • (16) The Fair Labor Standards Act, also known as the "Wage and Hour Law," has been expanded to include health professionals in radiologic technology programs as interpreted by functionaries of the Department of Labor.
  • (17) And in only a handful of scenes he brought to ripe, repugnant life a sycophantic functionary in the Coen brothers' caper The Big Lebowski (1998).
  • (18) A downloadable pdf application form for the executioner jobs, available on the website carrying Monday’s date, said the jobs were classified as “religious functionaries” and that they would be at the lower end of the civil service pay scale.
  • (19) She sounds a bit like a grim communist functionary circa 1989: only too aware that everything is changing at speed, but still awaiting orders.
  • (20) However, anti-microbial and anti-diarrheal drugs were used at a significantly higher rate by doctors than by other functionaries (p 0.05).

Governmental


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
  • (2) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
  • (3) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
  • (4) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
  • (5) Despite a favourable governmental attitude towards research and effective and functional organizational structures including the South African Medical Research Council, there is a relatively small medical research community and a much less than optimal research effort.
  • (6) Governmental regulations, requirements, and standards have improved the quality of many laboratories' work, but also result in greatly increased costs, excesses of often trivial procedures, and diversion of trained manpower from clinical service to regulatory procedures, with a resulting increase in manpower needs.
  • (7) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
  • (8) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
  • (9) These effects of governmental restrictions on abortion do indeed interfere with the obstetrician's basic goal of providing optimal care for the patient and undermine their efforts to improve maternal and infant health.
  • (10) The researchers recommended that governmental vehicles (e.g., military and police) transport pregnant women to a hospital in cases of emergency.
  • (11) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
  • (12) This study should be useful by providing a rational base for governmental policies regarding population, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (13) And secretary of state Hillary Clinton, visiting Hungary in 2011, pleaded for “a real commitment to the independence of the judiciary, a free press, and governmental transparency”.
  • (14) We would be prevented from doing so; we are prevented from doing so.” Describing the situation as agonising, she said: “Whether you are a Syrian NGO [non-governmental organisation] on the frontline in eastern Aleppo being bombed into oblivion, or a UN worker sitting in Damascus or accompanying convoys across conflict lines, we are all really taking risks and being mentally pummelled by some of the positions in which we are put.” The deteriorating situation in Syria and continual bombardment of eastern Aleppo has raised the political stakes to new heights in recent days, with Russia being directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes because of its support for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
  • (15) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
  • (16) Various sources of financing are used together with a considerable increase of private health insurance and a diminishing participation of governmental institutions over the years.
  • (17) "People think the Brotherhood can be dissolved through governmental decisions.
  • (18) But the politics of due governmental process is not so easily disposed of.
  • (19) Some of the money could go to non-governmental organisations.
  • (20) This sense of belonging has nothing to do with fiscal or governmental union and everything to do with proximity, amity and difference.

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