7 sentences with 'servants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word servants and other words derived from it.
• « Pericles instituted a policy of paying civil servants, who had worked for free in the past, a move that drastically decreased the potential for corruption through bribery and opened up the possibility for poorer citizens to hold public office. »
• « In the provinces, entire regions revolted when royal servants showed up and attempted to destroy the icons. »
• « Royal governments all over Europe sought humanistically educated men to serve as bureaucrats and civil servants, even as merchants everywhere adopted Italian mercantile practices for their obvious benefits (e.g. the superiority of Arabic numerals over Roman numerals, the crucial importance of accurate bookkeeping, etc.). »
• « Ivan IV the Terrible's overall goal was the transformation of Russian nobles - called boyars - into servants of the state, in which their power was based solely on their loyalty to the Tsar. »
• « Peter the Great also forced boyars to undergo military education and serve as army officers, and all noblemen after 1722 were required to serve the state as civil servants or military officers. »
• « In the field of education, his most notable invention was the lycée, a secondary school for the training of an elite of leaders and administrators, with a secular curriculum and scholarships for the children of officials and civil servants and the most gifted pupils of the ordinary secondary schools. »
• « The hardest workers of all, however, were probably the legions of domestic servants who worked in the homes of others. »