Translation of "Beamtentum" in English

The officers' corps was still German, the higher officials predominantly so.

If officialdom can ignore the rules, why should we not ignore them too?

This is officialdom: men in high position ecclesiastically, governing in an official way.

To this group belong the independent artisans, the small shopkeepers, the minor intelligentsia comprising the salariat, and the lesser officialdom.

Two institutions most characteristic of this state machine are the bureaucracy and the standing army.

There is no fame, self-interest, or official titles in Dafa, but only cultivation practice.

He unsparingly attacks the emperor and the military as well as the clergy, Prussianism, and officialdom.

I would like to endorse what the previous speaker said and ask you urgently to ensure, in your sphere of influence, that selections will not only be made on the basis of national quotas, but also that party political preferences will be put aside so that we can finally break with a very awkward tradition in connection with officials, which is specific to Europe, and actually bring in the best people.

Furthermore, complaints bureaux are very important, but it is also important for civil servants, particularly at the European level, to become more helpful and citizen-friendly.

His attitude was sympathetic, but no solution was found because officialdom does not want to give way on this matter.

I hope the Chinese authorities will use the opportunity of the Games to show their people that rules apply not only in the sporting arena, but above all to the duty incumbent on officialdom to respect human rights and freedom of expression.

While the commoners (German: Untertanen) in the landlocked Imperial States of the Holy Roman Empire were subjected to bureaucracy and its civil officialdom (German: Beamtentum), Hamburg was distinguished by its honorary self-government by the most respected of its free citizens, the Hamburg notables (German: Hamburger Notabeln).

On the other hand there were the parties of the centre and the right, whose supporters came from the middle class, the university and the civil service.

Their priority is to nurture a cozy relationship with Chinese officialdom -- much of which can be easily bought.

Leo Löwenthal has a similar summary of the values in his Hamsun study: "industry and civil servants, sciences and teaching staff, naturalistic writers and liberally governed countries, the café and the corporation, large town and intellectuals, the proletarians and the idea of social reform or even revolution - these are the essential cases in which for Hamsun the modern world consists and what it makes hateful with them" (17).

The infinite increase in the power of the crown is then enhanced by a second creation of the system of payment in money, by officialdom .

But to smash the old bureaucratic machine at once and to begin immediately to construct a new one that will make possible the gradual abolition of all bureaucracy--this is not a utopia, it is the experience of the Commune, the direct and immediate task of the revolutionary proletariat.

It is in our high and highest state officialdom that the Jew has at all times (aside from a few exceptions) found the most compliant abettor of his work of disintegration.

We here have quite clearly indicated the beginning of ecclesiasticism, clericalism, formalism, officialdom in Christian orders.

This, in turn, results in the fact that, at a certain stage in the development of democracy, it first welds together the class that wages a revolutionary struggle against capitalism--the proletariat, and enables it to crush, smash to atoms, wipe off the face of the earth the bourgeois, even the republican-bourgeois, state machine, the standing army, the police and the bureaucracy and to substitute for them a more democratic state machine, but a state machine nevertheless, in the shape of armed workers who proceed to form a militia involving the entire population.

Primarily in the fact that “in place of special institutions of a privileged minority (privileged officials, commanders of a standing army), the majority itself can directly carry out” the functions of suppression.

It is through that view that the international left was colonized by the lenses of Aufklaerung which originated in the civil service of the enlightened despotic states.

Thus the bureaucracy – that is, the “privileged officials and commanders of the standing army” – represents a special kind of compulsion which the masses cannot or do not wish to exercise, and which, one way or another, is directed against the masses themselves.

They don't seem to have any kind of gold braid on or anything like that, but maybe some kind of insignia to bespeak officialdom.