What's the difference between director and sterner?

Director


Definition:

  • (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.

Sterner


Definition:

  • (n.) A director.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hall has already survived a grilling from John Humphrys on Radio 4's Today programme, but he will face a sterner test against the Tory MP Philip Davies, widely seen as the most anti-BBC member of the cross-party committee following his memorable clash with Patten at a post-Savile session last November .
  • (2) Engagement has failed, and it is time for sterner stuff, the successful cold war recipe of isolation and condemnation.
  • (3) From the data obtained it was concluded that tested compounds could be classified to the fourth toxicity class (Hodge-Sterner classification).
  • (4) Walcott’s second came with the match over and while a win and progression is always the bottom line, of course, Watford could and should prove a far sterner test in Sunday’s quarter-final.
  • (5) Regardless, there is an acceptance that reinforcements will be needed before a sterner test next term.
  • (6) The phacoantigenic uveitis is a self-immune affection at the lens proteins, which may be determined by a 3rd-type hypersensitivity, and some sterner forms by a 4th-type hypersensitivity.
  • (7) Far sterner tests await, though, than this weakened City, who had 58% possession and more shots on goal overall but still looked like a team simply stretching their legs.
  • (8) The Miliband brothers, whom cartoonists still put in short trousers, are clearly not contemplating dotage just yet, and so surely their gooey professions of love should be set aside for the sterner dictates of combat.
  • (9) The present paper describes the amino acid sequence analysis of the internal and COOH-terminal cyanogen bromide fragments of yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase (Sterner, R., Noyes, C., and Heinrikson, R.L.
  • (10) England’s route to this juncture had been a blithe procession of nine wins and a draw in winning their qualifying group but the manner in which Livaja got free of his man to head in after Niko Datkovic flicked on Filip Bradaric’s corner indicated this was a sterner challenge.
  • (11) Billboards show him surrounded by pink hearts – in stark contrast to the sterner, more militarised pictures of his father, Hafez, the former president.
  • (12) I’m very happy,” said the manager Manuel Pellegrini , whose side can expect a sterner test at home to Liverpoolon Monday week.
  • (13) The international GCSE (IGCSE) – modelled on the O-level and widely seen as a sterner test than the GCSE – has long been popular among independent schools.
  • (14) If at times in the second half Arsenal seemed a little distracted, a team with half an eye on ticking this match off and readying themselves for a more gruelling challenge in the Champions League in Monaco , they can at least be sure Leonardo Jardim’s side will provide a much sterner test than these listing, drifting Hammers.
  • (15) Joachim Löw’s side will face sterner challenges than Slovakia as Spain or Italy lie in wait in the next round, but after four games without a goal conceded the Germans’ progress already looks ominous, especially with the goals scored column now looking a lot healthier.
  • (16) This information coupled with that derived from earlier structural studies of the enzyme (Sterner, R., AND Heinrikson, R.L.
  • (17) Steerforth was made made of sterner stuff and to him I gave my money for safe-keeping and to whom I answered to the name of Daisy.
  • (18) But let’s hope ordinary journalists and producers on the studio floor are made of sterner stuff.
  • (19) There have been laws prohibiting excessive hunting since the Seventies, and concern about oil drilling began a decade later, but the case for climate change demanded sterner proof.
  • (20) Netanyahu pushed him to set a rough year's-end deadline on talks with Tehran, after which sterner measures may be enacted.

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