In the course of a long reign a king would acquire the same advantage which a permanentunder-secretary has over his superior, the parliamentary secretary.
2
In 1949 the British government established a PermanentUnder-Secretaries' Committee "to consider long-term questions of foreign policy".
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Someone in the City, you might think, or perhaps a PermanentUnder-Secretary to some Minister you never heard of.
4
'You beg all the questions, Mr. Caldigate,' said the permanentunder-secretary, with a smile.
5
He described the Staithes who was now a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George and a PermanentUnder-Secretary.
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He has walked over from the House an hour ago to talk with the permanentUnder-Secretary, and now he's ready to walk back again.
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'Now that the County Police is established,' pointed out the PermanentUnder-Secretary, Horatio Waddington, 'the assistance of London officers is seldom resorted to.'