(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.
Convener
Definition:
(n.) One who convenes or meets with others.
(n.) One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(2) 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.
(3) The report of a panel convened by Save the Children and chaired by an independent expert from Public Health England says there is no conclusive evidence as to how Cafferkey was infected, but it points to the difference between her equipment and that of other volunteers.
(4) The World Health Organisation has convened an emergency committee to discuss the “explosive” spread of the Zika virus , with one of its scientists estimating there there could be 3m-4m Zika infections in the Americas over the next year.
(5) The conference was convened by the Prince of Wales, who has set up a working group to find ways of funding forest protection.
(6) A group convened by the WHO recommended full disclosure, but ordered an urgent review of the security and safety of labs where such viruses are stored.
(7) A verification of the epidemiological material, convened according to a common programme and the method of identification was made in separate districts of Ivanovo and the Andizhan Region.
(8) The two sides announced a renewed intention of convening a Geneva 2 conference to seek an overarching peace deal in Syria.
(9) The case, which highlighted the ultimate power of commanders as "convening authorities" to nullify a conviction by a military jury, became a focus of last month's Senate hearing on military sexual assault .
(10) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(11) Addressing the World Economic Forum's 2006 panel, which was convened to consider global catastrophes, he gave this advice: "A great leader acts in awareness of the big picture and accepts responsibility for the long-term consequences of the policies he or she pursues.
(12) On 9 September, just two days after Stapel was suspended, the university convened an ad-hoc investigative committee of current and former faculty.
(13) Medical Research Council, Academy of Finland convened a Consensus Development Conference on Blood Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease on April 24-26, 1989.
(14) An interdisciplinary task force was convened to design and implement the transfer center, requiring two months from conception to implementation.
(15) And this week, at a summit of police and religious leaders convened by De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, he drew a sharp contrast between the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson with the peaceful protests that have marked Garner’s death.
(16) When the IPCC took over the investigation, a meeting was convened with the family and City of London police.
(17) His intervention came on the day that the 115th Congress convened, with Republicans in control of both chambers, hoping that the incoming president will prove willing to sign long-planned bills into law.
(18) The Biological Stain Commission-sponsored workshop was convened to address the following issues: a manufacturers' testing program for probity of commercial antibodies, development of a manual for performance criteria and quality control assurance procedures, standardization of package inserts, standardization of information provided in the Materials and Methods sections of publications, establishment of a reagent and procedure clearing house, study of the effects of different fixation regimes on tissue antigens, and investigation of the environmental conditions needed for antigen-antibody interaction.
(19) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(20) You know, there has been talk about "should we convene a conversation on race".