What's the difference between corporate and functionary?

Corporate


Definition:

  • (a.) Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
  • (a.) Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
  • (a.) United; general; collectively one.
  • (v. t.) To incorporate.
  • (v. i.) To become incorporated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (2) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (3) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
  • (4) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
  • (5) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
  • (6) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (7) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (8) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
  • (9) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
  • (10) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (11) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
  • (13) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
  • (14) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
  • (15) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
  • (16) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
  • (17) Ian Read, Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, said the tax structure would protect AstraZeneca's revenues from the 38% rate of corporation tax in the US.
  • (18) Of the three main parties, the most promising ideas are housing zones and self-build for the Conservatives, Labour’s new homes corporations, and the strong garden cities offer from the Liberal Democrats .
  • (19) Given the importance of knowing the corporal composition according to the model of the four components (fat, mineral, fat free and aqueous) the same was calculated in 220 women and 130 men, considered as normal, between the ages of 15 and 49.
  • (20) In contrast, corporate support was positively correlated with the number of hours of total work per week, but negatively correlated with the amount of time currently devoted to research.

Functionary


Definition:

  • (n.) One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.
  • (2) Recently an AfD functionary called for the death penalty to be introduced so that the government could be “placed against a wall” and shot.
  • (3) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
  • (4) But Fifa's blazered functionaries are already talking about the possibility of holding the 2010 tournament in two African countries.
  • (5) This involvement is reflected not only in the rise of for-profit providers, but also in the influence of hospital administrators, utilization review organizations, insurance bureaucrats, and other functionaries unfamiliar with the clinical encounter, but well versed on the bottom line.
  • (6) How much influence will the many other senior RSS functionaries currently in top posts in the BJP have if the party takes power?
  • (7) The only statistically significant difference in levels of self-reported dental anxiety in relation to social background factors was between female labourers (high level) and female functionaries (low level).
  • (8) There was a significant and positive relationship between maternal knowledge and functionary knowledge of the growth chart (GC), and coverage of children for GM.
  • (9) Torture has been defined by the United Nations (declaration of December 9, 1975) as "every act by which a public functionary (or another person at his instigation) intentionally inflicts on another person serious pain or suffering, ...physical or mental, with the object of obtaining information or of punishing him...or of intimidating that person or others."
  • (10) This is imperative because functionaries from both governments are, sadly, pushing their negative emotion out into their nations’ media.
  • (11) These allegations are being pinned not to minor functionaries but senior members of the politburo.
  • (12) "Their functionaries share with us their reproach of the 'radical' Swedes and Czechs, with their human rights priorities, and can't wait for 'moderate' Spain to take over the EU presidency."
  • (13) Adrenoceptors of the bronchi and the lung show a special pattern of distribution and response, ensuring that the airway system works as a functionary unit.
  • (14) Another, less diplomatic dispatch sent to a functionary of the British embassy said simply: “Your new boss is a plonker.” Some, however, believe Johnson is the right man for the job.
  • (15) Even if a court were involved in the acquisition of these records - and that's unlikely here - it typically does little more than act as rubber-stamping functionary, just as it does when secretly approving the DOJ's requests for FISA warrants.
  • (16) The Fair Labor Standards Act, also known as the "Wage and Hour Law," has been expanded to include health professionals in radiologic technology programs as interpreted by functionaries of the Department of Labor.
  • (17) And in only a handful of scenes he brought to ripe, repugnant life a sycophantic functionary in the Coen brothers' caper The Big Lebowski (1998).
  • (18) A downloadable pdf application form for the executioner jobs, available on the website carrying Monday’s date, said the jobs were classified as “religious functionaries” and that they would be at the lower end of the civil service pay scale.
  • (19) She sounds a bit like a grim communist functionary circa 1989: only too aware that everything is changing at speed, but still awaiting orders.
  • (20) However, anti-microbial and anti-diarrheal drugs were used at a significantly higher rate by doctors than by other functionaries (p 0.05).