(n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aboriginal people who live in the north-west and other parts of the state are deserved of your allocation, your allocation of the financial assistance grants, because we give it to West Australia to do that,” Scullion said.
(2) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has said the remote scheme will require people to work five days a week, 12 months a year to get the dole, compared with the six months the government will require of benefit recipients in urban and regional areas.
(3) Scullion said criticism of the comment by Indigenous leaders including Pat Dodson, Noel Pearson and the chairman of Abbott’s Indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, followed a “new convention” of “word-annoying”.
(4) The ABC reported Scullion believes the Territory government could allow crocodile safaris under its own management plan once an agreement between it and the commonwealth on one-stop shop environmental approvals was settled.
(5) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has admitted he was briefed on media reports about use of teargas at the Don Dale youth detention facility, despite previously saying he had not known about it.
(6) On the issue of growing tensions in the Liberal party about Indigenous recognition , Scullion said Western Australian Liberals pushing a motion opposing it were entitled to their view.
(7) Scullion said they are challenging, very challenging, there’s a lot of work involved,” he said.
(8) The advice to me was the Northern Territory government need[ed] to seriously consider the findings of the children’s commissioner, to do everything it can to reduce the number of children in detention.” Scullion said he was not briefed about the full content of the children’s commissioner’s report, including its findings on use of force and that children were deemed “at risk”, nor about the Giles government amendments to the Youth Justice Act widening use of mechanical restraints .
(9) Many of these groups provide essential services that are integral to stopping disadvantage within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, they do not deserve to be left in the lurch.” Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion announced the first $860m round of funding earlier this month.
(10) Wong criticised the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) grants announced by the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, last week.
(11) Scullion later said it was “some of the most disturbing footage” he had ever seen and the behaviour of individual officers shown on Four Corners was “evil” and unabashed.
(12) Mr Abbott is taking away services and jobs … people need to live in their communities, on their country, with dignity Nova Peris Scullion last week dismissed suggestions that frontline services had been cut.
(13) But as I move around the communities that doesn’t seem to be the case, they’re not understanding that.” Last week Scullion visited WA’s Kimberley region, where 80% of the state’s remote Aboriginal communities are located.
(14) Scullion travelled to WA last week to meet Collier on another issue .
(15) Any minister that doesn’t listen to their constituency, doesn’t stand up for the portfolio they’re representing should really consider their position.” Activists gather at Don Dale detention centre to demand boys' release Read more Calma said it was a “relatively common” view among Indigenous leaders that Scullion had lost their confidence.
(16) Scullion also said he would push for the service, which was a recommendation made by the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, to be rolled out in other jurisdictions.
(17) Scullion said Indigenous Australians were conducting the most comprehensive consultation since federation on constitutional recognition.
(18) We’ll wave them in front of people out of context and we’ll say, ‘how do you feel about that?’” Scullion said that rather than focusing on Abbott’s comments, the chief message from Aboriginal people living in remote communities was that they needed to be involved in decisions about their future.
(19) In that period of time effectively there will be not a lot of changes to services in that time, that’s as I understand it,” Scullion said.
(20) Asked about whether the government would consider a treaty, Scullion said “of course” the government should engage with Indigenous Australians if they suggested one as part of the recognition process.
Servant
Definition:
(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
(v. t.) To subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
(6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
(9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
(10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
(11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
(12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
(13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
(14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
(15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
(17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
(18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
(19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.