(n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
(n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) I didn’t see him tonight,” smiled the alderman.
(2) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(3) Honorary Alderman, London Borough of Sutton Council.
(4) Alderman's predecessor, Robert Wardle, stepped down from his post at the SFO in 2008, a frustrated man, having seen BAE and its friends persuade Blair to intervene and force a halt to extensive and long running criminal inquiries into the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
(5) Alderman's recent campaign against companies alleged to practise bribery overseas is throwing up novel legal problems.
(6) There was one exception: Antonio French , an alderman of the 21st ward who has been out with protestors night after night, earning a brief stint in jail.
(7) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
(8) Alderman had encouraged companies to cut such US-style plea bargains as a way of admitting their corruption and starting afresh while avoiding a long and costly court case.
(9) Alderman staked much of his credibility on attempts to change the lumbering SFO style of investigation.
(10) Richard Alderman, head of the Serious Fraud Office, plans to press ahead with a controversial £30m plea bargain with the arms company BAE , legal sources say, despite criticism of such deals from a senior judge and anti-corruption campaigners.
(11) Richard Alderman, the SFO director, said after today'sraids: "The SFO is committed to tackling corruption.
(12) It appeared that former tax investigator Alderman's bluff had been called.
(13) Neither innocent nor guilty, you could skulk here for decades, while the alderman's daughter grows old: between step and step, grow old yourself, slip the noose of your name.
(14) The electric equivalent of an Alderman-Grant slotted resonator is analyzed in terms of two one-turn solenoids interconnected by a slotted cylinder resonator.
(15) Richard Alderman, director of the SFO, called the pioneering deal "pragmatic".
(16) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
(17) Dr. Alderman, Director of the Office of Dental Health, Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, can provide lists of communities in Georgia that are optimally fluoridated.
(18) Alderman is expected to hold talks with the judges in an effort to agree the best way to structure future plea bargains.
(19) He is an honorary alderman of the borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
(20) The size of the balloon relative to that of the uterus no doubt plays an important part in the irritability produced, and the volume of the balloon in Dr. Bruce's investigation was much larger than that used by Alderman et al.
Aldermanic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
Example Sentences:
(1) I didn’t see him tonight,” smiled the alderman.
(2) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(3) Honorary Alderman, London Borough of Sutton Council.
(4) Alderman's predecessor, Robert Wardle, stepped down from his post at the SFO in 2008, a frustrated man, having seen BAE and its friends persuade Blair to intervene and force a halt to extensive and long running criminal inquiries into the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
(5) Alderman's recent campaign against companies alleged to practise bribery overseas is throwing up novel legal problems.
(6) There was one exception: Antonio French , an alderman of the 21st ward who has been out with protestors night after night, earning a brief stint in jail.
(7) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
(8) Alderman had encouraged companies to cut such US-style plea bargains as a way of admitting their corruption and starting afresh while avoiding a long and costly court case.
(9) Alderman staked much of his credibility on attempts to change the lumbering SFO style of investigation.
(10) Richard Alderman, head of the Serious Fraud Office, plans to press ahead with a controversial £30m plea bargain with the arms company BAE , legal sources say, despite criticism of such deals from a senior judge and anti-corruption campaigners.
(11) Richard Alderman, the SFO director, said after today'sraids: "The SFO is committed to tackling corruption.
(12) It appeared that former tax investigator Alderman's bluff had been called.
(13) Neither innocent nor guilty, you could skulk here for decades, while the alderman's daughter grows old: between step and step, grow old yourself, slip the noose of your name.
(14) The electric equivalent of an Alderman-Grant slotted resonator is analyzed in terms of two one-turn solenoids interconnected by a slotted cylinder resonator.
(15) Richard Alderman, director of the SFO, called the pioneering deal "pragmatic".
(16) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
(17) Dr. Alderman, Director of the Office of Dental Health, Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, can provide lists of communities in Georgia that are optimally fluoridated.
(18) Alderman is expected to hold talks with the judges in an effort to agree the best way to structure future plea bargains.
(19) He is an honorary alderman of the borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
(20) The size of the balloon relative to that of the uterus no doubt plays an important part in the irritability produced, and the volume of the balloon in Dr. Bruce's investigation was much larger than that used by Alderman et al.