(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 .
Vice
Definition:
(n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
(n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
(n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
(n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
(n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
(n.) A gripe or grasp.
(v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
(prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
(prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(2) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(3) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(4) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
(5) La3+ binding was partially inhibited by RuR and vice versa, and La3+ was also capable of partially displacing RuR previously bound to the synaptosomes, particularly in the sucrose medium.
(6) It is not known whether the conversion of DHEAS into E1 and E2 influence the conversion of 16OH-DHEAS into E3 and vice versa.
(7) Behavioral interventions developed for alcohol abuse are now being tested with drug abusers, and vice versa.
(8) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
(9) And I was a little surprised because I said: ‘Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong there.’ But he did something wrong with respect to the vice-president and I thought that was not acceptable.” So that’s clear.
(10) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(11) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(12) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(13) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(14) Norepinephrine (10(-5) to 10(-6) M) increased contractile force and decreased alpha iNa, but in its presence ACh still increased force and alpha iNa and vice versa.
(15) Microbial antigen-specific LTT responses fluctuated considerably in time from strongly positive to negative and vice versa in healthy individuals as well as in patients.
(16) Lynn Kramer, the zoo's vice-president of animal operations and welfare, said five lions were typically in the exhibit and have never appeared to endanger each other before.
(17) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
(18) Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa.
(19) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.
(20) Vice versa, when the glpF and glpK(+) alleles of S. flexneri are incorporated into E. coli, the hybrid strain grows slowly in low glycerol medium.