Administrative

Examples

• After a while we took it as a matter of course that the head of a company was an administrative dummy, with a dependence on unofficial power similar to that of Governor Dix on Boss Murphy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I trust you will not be disappointed in my administrative ability. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• His greatest passions seem to be purely administrative and legal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Then I did the same for Herbert (who modestly said he had not my administrative genius), and felt that I had brought his affairs into a focus for him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• None of them have the administrative power required for even so small a community as this. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He had shown little or no military ability, but considerable dexterity and administrative power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not only was some method required but also some positive organ, some administrative agency for carrying on the process of instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She was far better informed, better read, a deeper thinker than Miss Ainley, but of administrative energy, of executive activity, she had none. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They made it possible to carry out administrative work in areas ten times as great as any that had hitherto been workable under one administration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Like all the empires founded by nomads, it was, to begin with, purely a military and administrative empire, a framework rather than a rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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