officiate oor Afrikaans

officiate

/əˈfiʃ.i.eɪt/ werkwoord, naamwoord

(intransitive, transitive) To perform the functions of some office.

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Soortgelyke frases

official language
Amptelike taal · ampstaal · amptelike taal

official residence
ampswoning

bank official
bankier

official
amptelik · beampte · offisieel · raamwerk

official secret
ampsgeheim

official
amptelik · beampte · offisieel · raamwerk

voorbeelde

Your body requires as nutrients 22 of the 103 officially recognized chemical elements.
Jou liggaam het 22 van die 103 amptelik erkende chemiese elemente as voedingstowwe nodig.

Repeated efforts of Jehovah’s Witnesses to send trained supervisors into the country were rebuffed by Belgian officials.
Herhaalde pogings deur Jehovah se Getuies om opgeleide opsieners na daardie land te stuur, is deur Belgiese amptenare in die wiele gery.

What impresses officials most is the long-lasting benefit of this volunteer program.
Wat amptenare die meeste beïndruk, is die blywende voordele van hierdie vrywilligerprogram.

THAT is how one Polish prison official reacted to an article about the work of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as reported on in our October 15, 1998, issue.
DIT is hoe ’n Poolse gevangenisbeampte gereageer het op ’n artikel oor die werk van Jehovah se Getuies, wat in ons nommer van 15 Oktober 1998 verskyn het.

The 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, published by Transparency International, reported that people worldwide have the perception that the five most corrupt institutions are political parties, the police, public officials, the legislature, and the judiciary.
Volgens die Global Corruption Barometer vir 2013, wat deur Transparency International uitgegee word, dink mense regoor die wêreld dat die vyf korrupste instansies politieke partye, die polisie, die staat, die wetgewer en die howe is.

Recently, in the jungles of Cambodia, according to officials quoted in the newspaper The Australian, the Khmer Rouge have deliberately slaughtered many rare animals.
Volgens amptenare wat in die koerant The Australian aangehaal is, het die Khmer Rouge onlangs talle seldsame diere in die oerwoude van Kambodja opsetlik doodgemaak.

The bold thieves even turn up in official- looking garb and steal right “from under worshippers’ noses.”
Die vermetele diewe daag selfs in amptelike kleredrag op en steel “voor kerkgangers se neuse”.

At present, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, employs more than four times as many translators and interpreters as the United Nations headquarters, which has only five official languages.
Tans werk meer as vier keer soveel vertalers en tolke vir die Europese Kommissie, die uitvoerende liggaam van die EU, as vir die hoofkwartier van die Verenigde Nasies, wat net vyf amptelike tale het.

Prison officials also showed interest by requesting 40 extra copies for themselves.
Gevangenisbeamptes het ook belangstelling getoon en 40 ekstra tydskrifte vir hulleself gevra.

Apparently the party organizer was trying to curry favor with superior party officials, and when Communist rule came to an end in Estonia, the party organizer herself lost her job.
Die partyorganiseerder het blykbaar in die guns van die hoër partyamptenare probeer kom, en toe die Kommunistiese bewind in Estland tot ’n einde gekom het, het die partyorganiseerder háár werk verloor.

How ironic it is that while health officials desperately try to halt the progress of a deadly sexually transmitted disease, so-called Christian nations unleash propaganda promoting immoral, high-risk behavior!
Hoe ironies is dit tog dat sogenaamd Christelike nasies propaganda vrystel wat onsedelike, hoë-risiko gedrag bevorder terwyl gesondheidsamptenare desperaat probeer om die vooruitgang van ’n dodelike seksueel oordraagbare siekte te stuit!

The Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, compiled under Perry’s supervision, tells about Japanese officials who could not resist jumping on a Lilliputian locomotive that “could hardly carry a child of six years of age.”
Die Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, wat onder Perry se toesig saamgestel is, vertel van Japannese amptenare wat nie die versoeking kon weerstaan om op ’n miniatuurlokomotief te spring wat “skaars ’n kind van ses jaar kon dra” nie.

The church officials were unable to refute this reasoning, and Henry is now one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Die kerkamptenare kon hierdie redenasie nie weerlê nie, en Henry is nou een van Jehovah se Getuies.

Says the account: “Then the king said to Ashpenaz his chief court official to bring some of the sons of Israel and of the royal offspring and of the nobles, children in whom there was no defect at all, but good in appearance and having insight into all wisdom and being acquainted with knowledge, and having discernment of what is known, in whom also there was ability to stand in the palace of the king.”—Daniel 1:3, 4.
Die verslag sê: “Daarop het die koning aan Aspenas, die owerste van sy hofdienaars, bevel gegee om uit die kinders van Israel, uit die koninklike geslag sowel as uit die edeles, te bring: jong seuns aan wie geen enkele liggaamsgebrek was nie, maar wat mooi van aansien was en vernuftig in allerhande wysheid en in besit van kennis en insig in wetenskap, en wat bekwaam was om in die paleis van die koning te dien.”—Daniël 1:3, 4.

Augustin, a former park official, remembers a unique encounter with gorillas in 2002.
Augustin, ’n voormalige parkbeampte, onthou ’n unieke ontmoeting wat hy in 2002 met gorillas gehad het.

Thus, Ducal Prussia, at the time a fiefdom of the kingdom of Poland, became the first state in Europe to adopt the teachings of Martin Luther officially.
Die hertogdom van Pruise, wat destyds ’n feodale besitting van die koninkryk van Pole was, het dus die eerste staat in Europa geword wat die leringe van Martin Luther amptelik aangeneem het.

‘I’m sorry, Colonel,’ Bart de Wit said to White, ‘but you’ll simply have to work through the official channels.
“Ek is jammer, kolonel,” sê die senior superintendent vir Wit, “julle sal eenvoudig deur die kanale moet werk.

Finally, in the last quarter of the 4th century, Theodosius the Great [379-395 C.E.] made Christianity the official religion of the Empire and suppressed public pagan worship.”
Theodosius die Grote [379-395 G.J.] het uiteindelik in die laaste kwart van die 4de eeu die Christelike godsdiens die amptelike godsdiens van die Ryk gemaak en openbare heidense aanbidding onderdruk.”

At times, we may deal directly with government officials.
Soms kry ons persoonlik met regeringsamptenare te doen.

Some officials say that burning the garbage in giant municipal incinerators is the answer.
Sommige amptenare sê die oplossing is om die vullis in reusagtige munisipale verbrandingsoonde te verbrand.

In March 1991, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia received official recognition.
In Maart 1991 is Jehovah se Getuies in Rusland amptelik erken.

(Proverbs 29:4, New International Version) Justice —especially when practiced from the highest official down— brings stability, whereas corruption impoverishes a country.
Geregtigheid werk stabiliteit in die hand—veral wanneer dit deur die belangrikste amptenaar tot die geringste toegepas word—maar korrupsie verarm ’n land.

Investigations are “being conducted in Europe, Canada and the United Kingdom, where unapproved parts (tail rotor shaft nuts) have been linked to a recent fatal helicopter crash,” transportation officials said.
Ondersoeke word “in Europa, Kanada en die Verenigde Koninkryk gedoen, waar minderwaardige onderdele (moere aan die stertrotoras) met ’n onlangse noodlottige helikopterongeluk verbind word”, het beamptes van die vervoerwese gesê.

In the name of Jehovah God and His anointed King, Christ Jesus, I demand that you give order to all officials and servants of your government that Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany be permitted to peaceably assemble and without hindrance worship God.”
In die naam van Jehovah God en Sy gesalfde Koning, Christus Jesus, eis ek dat jy alle amptenare en dienaars van jou regering beveel dat Jehovah se getuies in Duitsland toegelaat moet word om vreedsaam te vergader en God sonder hindernis te aanbid.”

“More careful counts revealed that previous censuses had been inflated by officials who either were in connivance with poachers or were merely eager to impress their superiors. . . .
“Noukeuriger tellings het aan die lig gebring dat vorige sensusse vergroot is deur amptenare wat óf met wilddiewe saamgewerk het óf bloot gretig was om hulle meerderes te beïndruk. . . .