Traditionally, the ensi was the highest functionary of the Sumerian city-states.

And all the high functionaries who were in his way fumbled and gasped and found it impossible to manage coherence.

They lived comfortably there and he associated with higher functionaries of the Chinese government.

Luxuriously furnished villas built for the children of the highest functionaries.

This was evidently a higher functionary.

No doubt this man was some high functionary in the organization.

He would remain a high functionary in the Soviet transport bureaucracy for more than a year.

He would not be rewarded for what certain high functionaries of the Church would regard as a failure.

Along with several other high functionaries including Dir.