(n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
(n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.
(n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
(n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
(v. t.) To place in a chair.
(v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
Example Sentences:
(1) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
(2) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(3) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(4) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(5) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
(6) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(7) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(8) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(9) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(10) They include Andrew Bennett, who chairs the Commons local government and regions committee, which monitors Mr Prescott's department.
(11) This will not be helped by the fact that the AU still accommodates the likes of Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago, who was until January its chair despite having been accused of serious human rights abuses.
(12) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(13) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
(14) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(15) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
(16) Alternatively, they were provided with a small foveal target, either fixed with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT condition), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT condition).
(17) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
(18) Herman Van Rompuy , who would chair meetings to discuss if an independent Scotland could join the EU, believes the move for separatism is a thing of the past, it has emerged.
(19) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
(20) It’s a huge crisis,” added Allan, who is a director of Premier Oil in addition to chairing Brindex.
Professorship
Definition:
(n.) The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(2) Gillard revealed she would be taking up a role as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, working on global education issues as well as her professorship at the University of Adelaide.
(3) Thirty-six surgical repairs done during visiting professorships by American gynecologists between the years 1978-1987 are documented.
(4) There is also a Betamax videotape recording of him receiving an honorary professorship at the Modern Academy of the Humanities, an obscure Moscow university that offers distance learning.
(5) On Monday, former NSA officer and conservative pundit John Schindler was reportedly placed on leave from his professorship at the Naval War College when a text message exchange that included a picture of his penis was posted to Twitter and re-published on Gawker (that link is rather obviously NSFW).
(6) Funds should also be allocated for professorships in this field.
(7) "And then three days ago we received a written confirmation that he would accept the professorship, not from him directly but from an intermediary."
(8) It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema and the day I die is the day I graduate.
(9) After Bouchard attained professorship, his relationship with Charcot gradually deteriorated.
(10) So it is perhaps little surprise that Burns, 63, will retire as Scotland's chief medical officer next month to take up a senior professorship in global public health at Strathclyde University.
(11) Besides her Harley Street practice and her senior appointment at Moorfields (The Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital), she prevented its closure to ophthalmic patients and chaired the Hospital Management Committee; she investigated the pathology of mustard gas keratitis and formed a Chemical Defence Research Team to study ocular effects of warfare chemicals; she was appointed Margaret Ogilvie Reader in Ophthalmology and senior surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital; she established the Nuffield Research Laboratory and was awarded a personal professorship, the first in ophthalmology in Britain, the first professorship given to a woman and the only one in ophthalmology by the University of Oxford.
(12) Ai, who has endured what he described as "extreme conditions" and an 81-day detention in his home country, said on Thursday he was happy to take the offer of a professorship in Germany and that he would continue to focus on freedom of expression in his art.
(13) Orac points out that, just because the senior author of the Nature paper, Stephen Scherer, has a professorship that is endowed by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline, it does not automatically imply a conflict of interest or bias in his research.
(14) Then, in 1988, he was appointed to a professorship at New York University, which was his home for the rest of his life.
(15) The Ministery of Cult and Education in Vienna, and especially Karl Rokitansky, who was the adviser for medical education, in 1867 created a new professorship and Institute for Physiology, beside Purkinje and his Institute.
(16) Professorships in Lusaka, Zambia, and Wyoming in the US followed, as well as a spell at Warsaw University.
(17) In 1989, Hull became professor of religious education at Birmingham, the first full professorship in the subject at a UK university, and also served as dean of the faculty of education and continuing studies.
(18) The granting of faculty status to Nigerian unviersity librarians should go the whole way and let the principle of multiple professorships be applied to the staff structure of unviersity libraries.
(19) It is necessary to take the whole education system into consideration: college up to professorship, as they are linked together.
(20) If we observe how the specialty is distributed, we can see that there are many paediatric services and professorships which do not send their patients to a P.S.