(a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.
Example Sentences:
(1) A backbench policy advisory group will be established to develop ideas.
(2) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(3) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(4) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(5) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
(6) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(7) Subacute (10-day) and subchronic (90-day) toxicity studies of ethylene glycol (EG) were conducted in male and female Sprague-Dawley rats to provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Drinking Water with toxicity data for final preparation of a Health Advisory for the chemical.
(8) We don’t say there’s a number that’s too much but if it’s a very large number it needs to be justified.” Shareholder advisory group ISS has recommended a vote against boardroom pay at next week’s AGM of mining company Anglo American.
(9) He will continue to work part time for BBC radio on leadership development and take on an advisory role with Comic Relief.
(10) The union's concerns are echoed by the government's migration advisory committee (Mac), which has warned that a shortage of seasonal migrant labour would lead to a 10% to 15% rise in supermarket prices.
(11) However, an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors has now finally been agreed, after 10 days of talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
(12) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(13) He has led the successful opposition to the death penalty in the courts of the Caribbean and is a member of the foreign secretary's death penalty advisory panel.
(14) The demise of the retailer and the subsequent investigation by MPs has raised important questions about the relationship between advisory firms and their client in the City.
(15) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
(16) Ex-ministers also have to seek the advice of the advisory committee on business appointments if they want to take a private sector job in the first two years after they leave office.
(17) In a statement to the Guardian, Elsevier said: "The Harvard Faculty Advisory Council letter does not specify any specific publisher.
(18) The advisory group comprises 14 16- to 24-year-olds with either direct or indirect (through friends or family members) experience of mental health problems.
(19) These revised recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) on Measles Prevention replace previous recommendations published in 1987 (1) and 1989 (2).
(20) He can work as a lawyer in Spain , lecture or take up advisory positions like the role he held in 2010 at the international criminal court in The Hague.
Prudential
Definition:
(a.) Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives.
(a.) Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee.
(n.) That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(2) Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam has probably had worse moments than Wednesday's dressing down from the Financial Services Authority .
(3) However, the governor of the Bank, Mervyn King , will chair both the committee and the prudential authority, and is expected to exercise ultimate control over all areas of supervision.
(4) The City regulator also used its Prudential Risk Outlook to reveal that the UK's biggest banks have been told they must have enough capital to withstand a plunge back into recession in the next four years.
(5) At St Edward, a joint venture between housebuilder Berkeley and insurer Prudential’s M&G property arm, 43% of staff are female.
(6) Thiam returned to McKinsey and came to prominence in the UK when he joined Prudential’s rival Aviva.
(7) City analysts said Prudential's aim to tap investors in the coming two months follows huge demands on the purse strings of investors who have been asked to back fundraisings by London-listed companies worth almost £60bn over two years.
(8) Less than a third of women expect to be "financially comfortable" in retirement, according to figures from Prudential.
(9) The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority are investigating, as is the accounting body the Financial Reporting Council.
(10) Two black FTSE 100 bosses come to mind: Tidjane Thiam, who left Prudential for Credit Suisse last year, and Arnold Donald at Carnival.
(11) The three made their announcements after Standard Life, Aviva and Prudential’s M&G barred investors from withdrawing their cash earlier in the week.
(12) In the end, shareholders took out their anger by ousting Harvey McGrath as chairman of Prudential in 2011.
(13) Hector Sants, the current boss of the FSA, will take on the role of chief executive of the first overseeing agency, which will be called the Prudential Regulatory Authority.
(14) It was perhaps good training for running Britain's top financial watchdog (the FSA will be split into two, with "prudential" regulation of the financial system going to the Bank of England, and supervision of products and sales coming under Wheatley at the FCA).
(15) King, who will now be in charge of macro-prudential supervision as well as interest rates said tonight: "I welcome these new responsibilities.
(16) Chief executives of companies such as Burberry, Tesco, Vodafone, BAE Systems, Prudential and GSK were keen to take a final opportunity to lobby the prime minister in advance of the meeting of political leaders in Northern Ireland.
(17) Prudential's proposed $35bn (£23bn) acquisition of AIA fits this profile.
(18) My assessment of recent history is that there has not been a case of a major prudential or conduct failing in a firm which did not have among its root causes a failure of culture as manifested in governance, remuneration, risk management or tone from the top,” Bailey said.
(19) Once the deal is finalised, Prudential will integrate AIA with its other Asian operations.
(20) The FSA said Prudential should have informed it about such a big acquisition; instead the regulator found out when the planned takeover was reported in the press.