(n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
(n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
(n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
(n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(3) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(4) 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.
(5) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
(6) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
(7) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(8) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(9) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(10) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(11) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(12) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(13) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
(14) 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.
(15) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
(16) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(17) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
(18) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(19) If the physician's office laboratory is not subject to regulations, the physician-director should personally direct the operation of his or her laboratory and keep abreast of the latest developments in laboratory medicine applicable to the specific areas of testing performed.
(20) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
Registrar
Definition:
(n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
(2) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
(3) When you register the death, the registrar will give you a unique reference number to use the Tell Us Once service.
(4) The registrar was very sympathetic but confirmed we were of the opposite sex and said consequently she could not provide a civil partnership,” explained Steinfeld, 33, who was until recently a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the US.
(5) The surgery has six doctors (five partners and a salaried doctor who is covering for a partner on maternity leave); two registrars (GPs about to qualify who are allowed to see patients on their own but have a mentoring doctor they can consult if they want a second opinion); three nurses, one full- and two part-time; eight receptionists each working a few hours a day; and four stressed-out admin staff.
(6) Ruling the registrar had made "an error of law", the judge said section 144 did not apply to squatter's title because it was enacted to deal with householders who needed rapid police help to get rid of squatters who had moved into their homes whilst they were away.
(7) A series of 80 consecutive procedures, carried out for 43 day-stay patients under general anaesthesia by seven junior staff (senior house officers and registrars: 39 procedures) and four senior staff (senior registrars and consultants: 41 procedures) were analysed.
(8) The court has not yet set an exact date for the start of the appeal, the court registrar Paul Myburgh said, but it will be this November.
(9) Instead she presented in labour and Dharmasena, the on-call registrar, had to delivery the baby in an emergency procedure which involved him making a cut through the scar tissue of her FGM.
(10) The South Dakota Tumor Registrars' Association reviewed breast cancer cases in South Dakota for the years 1983 and 1988.
(11) To determine the nature of possible factors, the Registrar General's decennial supplement and the vital statistics special reports of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on occupational mortality were analysed for occupation-specific mortality from peptic ulcer.
(12) The CPQ identified significantly more patients with a family history of cancer than had previously been detected by chart review by the tumor registrar.
(13) The duty registrar and two consultants independently graded the severity of each baby's illness without knowledge of the Baby Check score.
(14) But we were refused by the registrar, who said it was “not worth her job” to perform an act of civil disobedience.
(15) But in a 2009 report into the problem of stillbirths it found that, from a sample of 100 such cases, 39 involved a CTG error – 25 by midwives, eight by a registrar or senior registrar and four by a consultant obstetrician.
(16) The obstetric outcome and experience of care of 96 pregnant women attending an integrated community antenatal clinic staffed by general practitioners, a community midwife and an obstetric accredited senior registrar were compared with those of 100 women receiving traditional shared antenatal care.
(17) Any deviation will result in the certificate be rejected by the Registrar of Death and the matter referred to the Coroner.
(18) Occupy London , which arrived outside the church on 15 October when it was denied access to nearby Paternoster Square, the home of the London Stock Exchange, faces multiple accusations of obstruction and disruption, from witnesses including Nicholas Cottam, the registrar of St Paul's.
(19) In June 1988, a questionnaire was sent to 221 Danish general practitioners chosen at random and to 195 registrars who had applied for postgraduate courses in general medicine.
(20) A computer-based method for linking MONICA Project registration records with the Registrar General's death certification data identified 273 of the 277 deaths.