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Comptroller


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They have put a political constraint on their investment which should not be there – it is definitely an overexposure,” said Tom Sanzillo, a former New York State comptroller who oversaw a $156bn pension fund.
  • (2) We are obviously very concerned about the wellbeing of the fund, which is heavily invested in energy stocks worldwide,” said Pete Grannis, New York State deputy comptroller, whose office is the sole trustee of the fund, which has one million members.
  • (3) Last year the state comptroller listed what he considered excessive expenditures on takeaway meals, cleaning, makeup and hairstyling.
  • (4) Of about two dozen companies investigated by the comptroller general’s office, known as the CGU, just five are building most of the nearly 40bn reais’ ($10.5 billion) worth of venues and infrastructure needed for the Olympics in Rio.
  • (5) The BBC must be subject to full independent audit by the comptroller and auditor general.
  • (6) These are huge issues for all of us.” The 16-day shutdown cost the Pentagon $600m in lost productivity , a comptroller estimated.
  • (7) Another US regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, also imposed fines on JP Morgan, Citi and Bank of America, taking the day’s tally to £2.6bn.
  • (8) Tom Sanzillo, a former New York State comptroller who oversaw a $156bn pension fund, said: “Coal is arguably the worst performing sector in the whole world.
  • (9) The US's biggest bank will pay $300m to the US office of the comptroller of the currency, $200m to Federal Reserve , $200m to the securities and exchange commission (SEC) and £137.6m ($219.74m) to the UK's financial conduct authority.
  • (10) The NAO comptroller and auditor general, Amyas Morse, recently refused to sign off the accounts of the Department for Education due to his opinion that “ the level of error and uncertainty in the statements to be both material and pervasive ”, which bears out Kerslake’s concern: Morse says he simply does not know whether academy schools are spending public money well enough.
  • (11) John Liu, New York City comptroller, expressed scepticism over the ban last year.
  • (12) No bank was even forced to admit wrongdoing in the orders by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
  • (13) The contract itself is designed to provide some degree of certainty and security for individuals who take on these roles in the knowledge their appointments may come to an end at short notice.” Following the decision, Manzoni will inform the financial watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General, who may refer it to the House of Common’s powerful public accounts committee for an investigation.
  • (14) In May, Israel’s state comptroller released a critical report on Netanyahu’s foreign trips, some with his wife and children, between 2003 and 2005 when he was finance minister.
  • (15) Structural problems include: 1 Inadequate country risk assessments According to a 2012 US Senate report into money laundering, the legal counsel in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency observed that problems with the bank’s 2009 “country risk assessments extended beyond Mexico to other countries as well.
  • (16) He declined, but said he was happy to share it with the comptroller and auditor general of the National Audit Office, Amyas Morse, who also attended the committee meeting.
  • (17) Updated at 12.28pm BST 12.22pm BST UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) Don Foster has been appointed as Comptroller of HM Household (Lib Dem Chief Whip).
  • (18) The prosecution of the war is also being investigated by the UN Human Rights Council, by a commission of inquiry set up by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and by the Israeli state comptroller , Joseph Shapira, who has been tasked with investigating decisions made by Israeli political and military leaders.
  • (19) MPs are now pressing for Sir John Bourn, the comptroller and auditor general, to have unfettered access to the BBC's accounts.
  • (20) Kate Hoey, whose Vauxhall constituency takes in the south landing of the proposed 367-metre structure across the Thames, has written to Sir Amyas Morse, the comptroller and auditor general of the National Audit Office (NAO), to request a full inquiry into the finances of the project, with work on it halted in the interim.

Superintendent


Definition:

  • (a.) Overseeing; superintending.
  • (n.) One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ripa can be used with approval from an officer of superintendant level or above, and does not require the police to disclose their intentions to snoop on journalists.
  • (2) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
  • (3) However, Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Chicago SunTimes that the tit-for-tat insult trading on social media was ill-advised .
  • (4) Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service.
  • (5) In fact it was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Chitty (who died in 1983).
  • (6) The first Berlin specialist was a Dr. Jüngling, a pupil of Mayrhofer, at the "Friedrichshain Hospital", the first medical superintendents were appointed in 1956.
  • (7) The results of the study provide practical information, ideas and considerations for administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents and other responsible for residential staff development.
  • (8) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
  • (9) Kavanagh defended Chief Superintendent Sandra Looby, the Tottenham police chief who has been criticised in the media for reportedly flying to Florida on Saturday, just before the rioting broke out.
  • (10) Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York's department of financial services, said last month that he intends to introduce regulation for bitcoins later this year, making New York the first state to do so.
  • (11) Despite having sacked the police superintendent , Garry McCarthy, on Monday and ordered the formation of a taskforce into police accountability, questions continue to swirl about what Emanuel knew, and when he knew it – questions that at best raise doubts about his grip over his own city and at worst threaten to impugn his integrity.
  • (12) He said doctors should be allowed to prescribe nevirapine in consultation with hospital superintendents.
  • (13) Savile had keys to the high-security hospital, accommodation and unrestricted access due to his relationship with the medical superintendent who hoped his fame would improve public perception of the hospital.
  • (14) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
  • (15) She is shellshocked, wearing a neck-brace while facing our old friends DS Arnott (played by Martin Compston) and superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar).
  • (16) Dr Sudha Dev Kota, the medical superintendent at the hospital, said the seven doctors at the small facility housed in bare brick buildings had treated more than 200 people since Saturday.
  • (17) Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the gunmen opened fire on the group in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which one of them was slightly wounded.
  • (18) At the end of the aborted trial, the Met's Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell expressed his regrets: "This current investigation has identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
  • (19) The constitutional role of the law officers is to superintend the CPS.
  • (20) Chief Superintendent Alan McCrum said: "Last night we saw a number of people on the streets who were intent on engaging in violence.