mandarins

If players at Seoul's foreign exchange market are convinced that the Korean economy will be among the first to recover from the global recession - as Yoon says - and if they have confidence in Korean mandarins 'ability to forestall a liquidity squeeze, they would not have sold down the won to the current level.

BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

To do this, he needed the services of the educated class, the so-called mandarins.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

That's the dilemma mandarins like Jim Baker and the heavyweights on his Commission have to deal with.

The End of the Bush Dynasty 2006

That's the dilemma mandarins like Jim Baker and the heavyweights on his Commission have to deal with.

The End of the Bush Dynasty 2006

They're perhaps more appropriately called the mandarins of the government of Japan.

Briefing On Japan By Kantor Altman And Cutter ITY National Archives 1994

The king nodded once again; an invisible band suddenly struck up the loveliest music, and off they set to the places of honor reserved for them in the centre of the room, where all the mandarins were assembling.

The Cuckoo Clock 1893

Then, again, all foreigners, sometimes the women also, carry sticks, which can only be for beating innocent people; and their so-called mandarins and others ride races and row boats, instead of having coolies to do these things for them.

The Civilization of China Herbert Allen Giles 1890

Before them walk two Sangleys who bear suspended from their shoulders a porcelain case in which it is said they carry their chapas which indicate that they are mandarins, which is the same that we here call "decrees" and "royal commissions."

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Looking back to his attitude towards the "mandarins" he saw in public service in the first years of his career, Amery was always on the side of planning and organization, new ideas, and unconventional methods to obtain his ends.

Patricia A. Ferguson: Fighting on All Fronts Leo Amery and the First World War Patricia A. Ferguson 1993

With his background experience in three senior departments of government, was it any wonder that he was alleged to have been one of that exclusive group of "mandarins" which at one time included among others Robert Bryce, Simon Reisman, and Ed Ritchie -- who lunched together each Friday in the delightful suburban setting of the country club on the north bank of the Ottawa River, to give direction to the economy of Canada.

Reflections from Washington 1977