8 sentences with 'bureaucrats'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bureaucrats and other words derived from it.
• « Some very fortunate slaves who were educated ran businesses or served as bureaucrats, teachers or accountants. »
• « The Abbasid caliphs employed Persian bureaucrats and ruled in a manner similar to the earlier Persian Great Kings, although they did not adopt that title. Their role as caliphs was to protect the ummah and provide a political framework within which Shari'a could flourish; it was in the Abbasid period that Islamic law was truly developed and codified. »
• « Cathedral schools were supposed to produce not only spiritual leaders, but also skilled bureaucrats, and that required a form of rigorous education that encouraged the study not only of the Bible, but of classics of Latin literature such as the speeches of the great Roman politician Cicero and the great epic poem of ancient Rome, Virgil's Aeneid. »
• « Princes and other elites wanted skilled bureaucrats to staff their mercantile empires; they needed literate men with knowledge of law and mathematics, even if they themselves were not merchants. »
• « 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.). »
• « The practical nature of humanistic education ensured that this new generation of bureaucrats was more efficient and effective than ever before. »
• « Kings could not dismiss their nobles, but they could dismiss their officials. Therefore, this new class of educated bureaucrats had to be good at their jobs, as they had no titles to fall back on. »