(n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
(n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) At the end of the year, however, Hugh Davies QC, deputy counsel to the inquiry, also resigned.
(3) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(4) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(5) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(6) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
(7) The private eye was well known to the News of the World, having worked for the paper for several years before he was jailed, when Coulson was deputy editor.
(8) 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.
(9) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(10) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
(11) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
(12) Sir James Crosby, the chief executive until 2006, was forced to resign as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority after the Treasury select committee produced allegations by a whistleblower that the bank was "going too fast".
(13) "This is a massive and indiscriminate lack of trust that symbolises the rejection of the government," said Frédéric Dabi, deputy director general of pollsters Ifop.
(14) "Not much has changed," said Frans Cronje, deputy chief executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations.
(15) "It is not true that at this time a flight of deposits from Bankia is taking place," said Fernando Jiménez Latorre, the deputy economy minister.
(16) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(17) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(18) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
(19) "We are trying to build a city that is sustainable and we are not being allowed to," said David Hopkins, deputy leader of the council.
(20) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
Legate
Definition:
(n.) An ambassador or envoy.
(n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.
(n.) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.
(n.) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and positive serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were treated by hepatic artery legation and postoperative chemotherapy.
(2) (1) Bile duct legation protects against aspirin-induced gastric mucosal lesions by inhibiting gastric HCl secretion.
(3) Evidence is presented suggesting that recurrent saphenofemoral incompetence may occur after an efficiently performed high legation of the great saphenous vein flush with the femoral vein.
(4) We have legats [legal attaches] there from the FBI and State Department, very small to the extent that we are asked.
(5) Although she had her first ballet lessons in Ndola, her training was essentially in Britain, first with Flora Fairbairn, then with the great pedagogue Nicholas Legat and, after his death in 1937, with his widow Nadine Nicolayeva.
(6) Those on the statue are taken from the typed version he sent to the American legation in Brussels, which passed them on to London.
(7) However, if the wire is too firmly legated to the teeth with a flexure of more than 2.0 mm for the former, and more than 0.5 mm for the latter, there is the danger of excessively strengthening the orthodontic force.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) The file shows Roger Hollis, head of MI5, arguing in 1944: “You may think the case against Costello himself is a thin one, and I think I should add that we have information from entirely reliable but very secret sources that certain of the Communist party leaders were aware of Costello’s departure from this country in July last.” Costello continued his career in the New Zealand diplomatic service and in 1950 was promoted to be first secretary at the Paris legation.
(10) Studies were carried out to investigate this question in normal dogs, sham-operated animals, and dogs with acute and chronic legation of CBD.
(11) She was travelling to meet her mother and stepfather in Damascus, where he had been posted as minister at the British Legation.
(12) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether bile duct legation of pylorus ligation in the rat inhibits asprin-induced gastric lesions, and, if so, what the protective mechanisms are.
(13) Immediately after legation of coronary arteries (CA) and during the next 2 days mesaton was introduced in a single dose into the marginal auricular vein of 12 rabbits with EMI.
(14) He joined the army and served as an intelligence officer and translator for the New Zealand forces in north Africa and Italy before being appointed by the New Zealand government in 1944 as second secretary to their legation in Moscow.