(n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
(n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
(n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
(n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week the labor bureau reported that the US added just 69,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, the first rise in nine months.
(2) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(3) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(4) --The study was based on data collected by the US Bureau of the Census in the March 1991 Current Population Survey for six groups of workers in health care occupations and three classifications of insurance employees.
(5) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
(6) Could the film’s producer be the same Harry Saltzman who came to the bureau in 1951 as a newspaper photographer to take a picture of a laboratory?
(7) The Bureau of the Census has developed a model describing the joint effect of sampling and nonsampling errors on census statistics.
(8) To test this hypothesis, data concerning use of a pediatric ED during three seasonally diverse months was analyzed in the light of Weather Bureau information concerning daily conditions during the study months.
(9) The Met's press bureau refused to put out substantial details of its policing plan, claiming it was not necessary for an event of the anticipated scale.
(10) The New York Times's bureau chief in Tehran, Thomas Erdbrink, also reacted to Rezaian's arrest.
(11) Collins's claim came after a member of the bureau went to Bell Pottinger, as well as a number of other lobbying firms, posing as a member of the Uzbek government wanting to clean up the regime's image in the west.
(12) Africans want to be allowed to travel in their own country and to seek work where they want to and not where the labour bureau tells them to.
(13) The data are from the Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey and annual money income before taxes is the measure of income.
(14) In implementing this approach, the Bureau of Quality Assurance recognizes that long-term care review is in an evolutionary state, and will initiate a series of demonstrations designed to test and refine various acceptable approaches, rather than require a single uniform methodology for PSRO use.
(15) Elemental standards, primarily National Bureau of Standards multielement research glasses, were dry-ground into submicrometer-sized particles and analyzed at 200 kV accelerating potential.
(16) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(17) A spokesman for Putin had also contacted the NYT's Moscow bureau to float the idea, Rosenthal said.
(18) To assist analysts in improving their data in mycotoxin research, the Community Bureau of Reference of the European Commission has produced several reference materials for mycotoxins; others, such as a reference material for ochratoxin A in grains, are in development.
(19) Over the past six years, the Home Office has deported 605 Afghans who arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism .
(20) Data were obtained primarily from the Population Reference Bureau World Population Data Sheets for 1979 and 1987.
Ministry
Definition:
(n.) The act of ministering; ministration; service.
(n.) Agency; instrumentality.
(n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
(n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
(n.) Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(4) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(5) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(6) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(7) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(8) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
(9) In consequence of the findings the Netherlands Ministry for Housing, Physical Planning and Environment appropriated money to cleanup contaminated gardens.
(10) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(11) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
(12) On Sunday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed a serious further offence review would take place to see if lessons can be learned from the case.
(13) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
(14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(15) Japan's trade and industrial ministry warned on Wednesday that Google must follow Japan's privacy law in implementing its new approach, and that Google needed to provide explanations to address users' concerns.
(16) The decision will mean the Ministry of Justice has to find as much as £100m in extra savings over four years from elsewhere in its budget.
(17) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
(18) The Ministry of Defence has said it is “planning for a seamless transition of assets”.
(19) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(20) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.