(n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
(n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
(n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
(n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
(n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(3) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(4) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(5) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(6) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
(9) The appearance of the enamel of their permanent teeth was assessed 11 years later (children aged 12-15 years) and recorded using Dean's and the FDI indices.
(10) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(11) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
(12) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
(13) Dean's system, however, has several shortcomings, principally its inability to measure fluorosis in different tooth surfaces.
(14) As dean of the Medical Faculty (1930-1931) or prodean (1931-1932) he had to resolve under complicated conditions of the general economic crisis many difficult problems of its further development and concept.
(15) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
(16) 98, 491-505 (1984)] and G. L. Rice, J. W. Gray, P. N. Dean, and W. C. Dewey [Cancer Res.
(17) During the 1982-83 academic year, ten members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions through the year 1991.
(18) Separately, in February a group of junior doctors at Tameside privately raised a number of concerns with the postgraduate medical dean for Greater Manchester, Jackie Hayden.
(19) Neighbor Dean McDaniel said he’d known the family for nearly 17 years, and remembered Abdulazeez as an elementary school student and teenager.
(20) Responses from faculty (nominated by their deans to answer the survey) from 82% of the medical schools indicated considerable agreement between the basic science teachers and clinical teachers on the relative importance of a set of biomedical concepts, and showed relatively minor levels of disagreement on how difficult these concepts are.
Headmaster
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Example Sentences:
(1) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(2) He would walk into the room and say, ‘I like this and that.’ It was a team effort, but definitely he was the headmaster.” Nautical but nice: Ralph Lauren unveils latest collection in New York Read more In the early 60s, Lauren worked for the Manhattan men’s outfitter Brooks Brothers behind the tie counter.
(3) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(4) The headmaster of his Buckinghamshire grammar school once described Shayler as "a born rebel who sails close to the wind".
(5) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
(6) 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.
(7) Alec O’Connell, headmaster of Scotch College, where Mo went to school, said the “catastrophe was a tragedy of the highest order”.
(8) The real value of spending will be eroded over the next parliament.” Peter Kent, a serving headmaster and president of the Association of School and College Leaders, said school leaders shared the prime minister’s commitment to raising standards, “but we’ve got to have the resources to provide the quality of education he is talking about.
(9) Lindsay Roy, headmaster at Brown's old school, elected MP with increased share of vote.
(10) Lord Justice Leveson joined in, like the headmaster walking in on a rowdy classroom.
(11) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
(12) Lawrence Stone was born in Epsom, and educated at Charterhouse, where the headmaster, Sir Robert Birley, subsequently headmaster of Eton and then professor of social science at the City University, London, was a strong influence.
(13) After furious lobbying from the public schools (the Headmasters' Conference was established to counter this threat), the endowed schools bill was completely emasculated, the only provision that remained was competitive exams, which only helped to entrench their social and financial exclusivity.
(14) In 2009 Niall Nelson, headmaster while Vahey was at JIS, gave him a reference for a job at Southbank international school in London.
(15) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
(16) She said she told senior administrators, including the headmaster, about the incident.
(17) On Wednesday, a letter to parents from headmaster John McIntosh and chairman of governors Father Ignatius Harrison said money was needed because government funding changes had left the Roman Catholic comprehensive with a £250,000 deficit.
(18) "In this time of national crisis, it is incumbent on us all to support our government," his headmaster writes.
(19) Sometimes we’ve had managers in the past who have ruled like a headmaster, being a little bit too strict.
(20) Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Retired headmaster and local historian Salem Ould Elhadje says no one knows where Kankou Moussa – the “king of kings” as he is known in Mali – established his capital, or even if he had one.