Their reason was simple : the proposed vaccination law granted too much discretionary power to the president and his minions.
The word gofer for 'a minion or assistant' is a good case in point.
It is small wonder that this long-developing and deeply-lived attitude would carry over to the colonial regime and its minions.
Students of labor and political machines have been most interested in how bosses and their minions in the wards influenced the politics of the labor movement.
Let the minions do it; let somebody else take the brickbats; let somebody else take the insults.
From there, the commissioners will send their carefully selected minions into the country to do we know not what we know not how.
Until there are men to spare, let the existing men try to prevent accidents by advertising their presence as the minions of the law.
It is no good reducing a few minions at the lower levels unless there are cuts at the top.
