What's the difference between burglar and chief?

Burglar


Definition:

  • (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1972 burglars working on behalf of president Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic party headquarters in Washington, and successfully installed a listening device on at least one phone.
  • (2) A police officer attended the scene of a burglary in progress and, following a pursuit through the house with his gun in hand, short the burglar in the back of the head.
  • (3) In a sophisticated operation, the burglars are believed to have abseiled from the roof of the building, disabling movement sensors, they write.
  • (4) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (5) He denies the charge , insisting that he mistook her for a burglar.
  • (6) However, lecturer Paul Kohler, who was savagely beaten by Polish burglars who broke into his west London home last year, was at the demonstration for a Channel 4 News programme and said he was depressed by the views of those on the march.
  • (7) You are a killer.” The second was in May 2013 against Shepherd Moyo, a serial rapist and burglar whose sentence of 252 years was intended to serve as a deterrent, she said.
  • (8) "You wouldn't ask burglars to come in and shape the law on burglary but they are breaking the law and they are shaping the law," he said.
  • (9) He told the court that he mistook her for a burglar, while prosecutors argued that he shot her after an argument.
  • (10) Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork which was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats.
  • (11) The activity of burglars more often then the thieves' one goes over into the night.
  • (12) Matsuka said unknown people had tried to storm his office, and his team had installed security cameras, a panic button and burglar alarm.
  • (13) Alcoholic intoxication hardly occurs with offences against property, although the activity of burglars goes over into the early hours of night.
  • (14) Why on earth did they have their phones with them?” a former burglar, who knew three of the burglars well, asked me.
  • (15) When he examined the body, a black yarmulke was present near the outstretched hand of the burglar.
  • (16) What everyone can hear, loud as a burglar alarm, is the shriek of self-interest dressed up as national interest.
  • (17) The 42-year-old convicted burglar put Pegida, which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, onto the political agenda by leading weekly rallies in the eastern city of Dresden to defend what he calls “German” values.
  • (18) The police had to be persuaded that this was a respectable author who liked climbing things from the outside and not an inept cat burglar returning to the scene of his crime.)
  • (19) In Robot & Frank (1 ) you play a forgetful retired cat burglar whose kids hire him a home-help robot (2 ).
  • (20) England could have a skyline of huge footballers mansions (complete with burglars).

Chief


Definition:

  • (n.) The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.
  • (n.) The principal part; the most valuable portion.
  • (n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.
  • (a.) Highest in office or rank; principal; head.
  • (a.) Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.
  • (a.) Very intimate, near, or close.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Ciarán Devane, Macmillan's chief executive, welcomed the rethink.
  • (3) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (4) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
  • (5) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (6) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (7) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (8) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.
  • (9) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (10) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (11) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (12) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (13) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
  • (14) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
  • (15) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
  • (16) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (17) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (18) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (19) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (20) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.