(n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
(n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) 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.
(3) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(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) James Goodman, chairman of the Wyre Forest GPs' Association, said: "We didn't necessarily fully support the changes at the start of the process.
(6) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
(7) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(8) Calum MacLean, Grangemouth Petrochemicals chairman, says, “This is a hugely sad day for everyone at Grangemouth.
(9) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(10) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(11) May is due to announce that Dennis Stevenson, a former HBOS chairman and a mental health campaigner, will lead a review alongside Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind.
(12) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(13) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(14) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(15) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
(16) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(17) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(18) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
(19) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
(20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.
Chairmanship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
Example Sentences:
(1) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(2) I believe in wealth creation and company profits, and for the government to play its part, and we have been working closely with business to shape that agenda.” Specifically, Miliband pointed out David Cameron, during his chairmanship of the G8 in 2013, had promised to make a crackdown on tax evasion one of his central goals.
(3) His resignation comes weeks before an influential Commons committee is expected to heavily criticise his chairmanship of Kids Company.
(4) It is widely believed that the government was trying to convince Davies to take the chairmanship of the deeply troubled Royal Bank of Scotland, in which the taxpayer now has a 58% stake.
(5) This year the UK completed its six-month, rotating chairmanship of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the ECHR.
(6) It will be followed by a G8 summit under British chairmanship in June.
(7) Yeo was elected to the select committee chairmanship and it is not clear if a fresh election will be held, or a temporary substitute will be appointed.
(8) A last minute change to the job description for the chairmanship of the BBC Trust has prompted Labour complaints that the change has been made to ensure that the government’s preferred candidate, Conservative peer Lord Coe, can apply.
(9) This pointed her in the direction of the chairmanship of standing committees, a key instrument in the scrutiny of government activity.
(10) The first was delivered by Tim Hands , the headmaster of Magdalen College school since 2008, and given to mark Hands's elevation to chairmanship of the Headmasters and Mistresses Conference , which represents the prosperous elite of Britain's independent schools, including Eton and Roedean.
(11) One particular line from his letter to Major, quoted in Brown's book, gives a clue to what attitude he might take if given the chairmanship of ITV.
(12) His resignation last night from the honorary chairmanship of the Christian Democrats is highly significant for a country he reunited by the sheer power of his personality.
(13) Osborne hailed the agreement as "a significant step forward" in the fight against tax evasion and illicit finance, one of the chief themes of the UK's chairmanship of the forthcoming G8 meeting, which is being held in Northern Ireland in June.
(14) In a speech in Davos in January, Cameron promised to make tax transparency his number one goal for his G8 chairmanship.
(15) On Friday, Trinity Mirror accelerated the handover of power from Sir Ian Gibson, who has held the chairmanship since 2006, to former Reuters and Emap senior executive Grigson.
(16) M&S said that Rose will continue as a part-time chairman of M&S after Bolland is installed to ensure "a smooth transition", adding that he will step down from the chairmanship by the summer of 2011.
(17) Matt Ridley inherited (along with his estate, his opencast coal mines and his vast wealth) the chairmanship of Northern Rock, whose collapse under his reckless and incompetent oversight was the catalyst for the British financial crisis, which impoverished so many.
(18) We must do what is necessary to eliminate Isis, protect the innocent, and keep Americans safe,” said Representative Mike Pompeo, a Kansas Republican on the intelligence committee rumored to seek the chairmanship, an influential foreign-policy position.
(19) The justice secretary did however spell out to MPs the government's priorities for reform of the European court of human rights at Strasbourg, when Britain takes over the chairmanship of the Council of Europe shortly.
(20) Gave up chairmanship of a committee to be a whip, worked hard and was widely acknowledged ... to be a good whip.