(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.
Reis
Definition:
(pl. ) of Rei
(n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.
(n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequence homologies among YsT9.1 and the Fv regions of McPC603, J539 and human Bence--Jones protein REI, all of which have solved crystal structures, provided the basis for the modeling.
(2) The authors infer from the REI literature five assumptions regarding the roles and responsibilities of elementary regular classroom teachers, concluding that these teachers and specialists form a partnership, but the classroom teachers are ultimately in charge of the instruction of all children in their classrooms, including those who are not succeeding in the mainstream.
(3) A 46-year-old white woman had Reis-Bücklers corneal dystrophy; the disease had recurred in a corneal transplant within ten years of transplantation.
(4) For one region in the first domain of CD4 there was an ambiguity in the alignment with REI and two alternate models are presented.
(5) Perhaps due to the misnomer, annular or honeycomblike subepithelial opacities have come to be regarded as Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy.
(6) Ninety-four regular classroom teachers in northwest Iowa were asked to agree or disagree with a series of statements on the REI position.
(7) Their impact on the entomological parameters is remarkable with a reduction of more than 98% of ma and the rate of entomological inoculation (REI) in the houses.
(8) Most publicly, when Manchester United bought the Portuguese player Bébé in 2010, Gestifute had just days earlier bought 30% of the player's "economic rights" and begun representing him, Bébé having sacked his former agent Gonçalo Reis just before the United deal.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luiz Henrique Reis What makes me happy about Brazil is ... the typical happiness and hospitality found in people.
(10) Bébé's agent, Gonçalo Reis, has said he was cut off mid-contract, before Mendes suddenly began to represent Bébé then within days agreed a €9m (£7.5m) deal with United.
(11) But with the last kick, or header, of the game, Tim Cahill provided a late equalizer for the second successive game as his attempt looped over Matt Reis to give New York the point they needed to clinch a playoff spot.
(12) The specimens consisted of 8 keratoplasty specimens obtained from 2 cases of granular dystrophy and 4 cases of lattice dystrophy and one case each of primary droplet dystrophy and Reis-Bücklers dystrophy.
(13) The dystrophy originally described by Reis and Bücklers shows electron-microscopically 'rod-shaped bodies' in the region of Bowman's membrane that cannot be distinguished from the 'rod-shaped bodies' in the granular dystrophy.
(14) In Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy an unknown pathomechanism in Bowman's layer and the basal cells of the corneal epithelium results in recurrent epithelial erosions.
(15) Thiel-Behnke's corneal dystrophy resembles Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy clinically, but differs from it in its honeycomb-shaped opacity pattern, the fibrous tissue in histology, and the curly dense filaments found in electron microscopy.
(16) Electroroentgenography with multiple magnification by means of the apparatuses REIS-D and ERGA-02 reveals lymph nodes in the mediastinum of small laboratory animals.
(17) One of the criticisms is that regular classroom teachers' views regarding many of the beliefs or assumptions of the REI are unknown.
(18) Rei Kawakubo, the founder of Comme des Garçons: Weird pink kaleidoscope prints!
(19) The structure of the variable portions of a K-type Bence-Jones protein REI forming a dimer has been determined by X-ray diffraction to a resolution of 2.0 A.
(20) A lovely little dink over the top is clutched by Reis.