(n.) The condition or office of a director; directorate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activist organisation has previously highlighted CBA chairman David Turner’s directorship role with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in an attempt to make the bank distance itself from the project.
(2) The latest report from Lord Mervyn Davies, the government’s champion of gender equality in the boardroom, reveals that women now hold 23.5% of FTSE 100 directorships, up from 22.8% last October and almost double the number in 2011 when the target was set.
(3) What chance do historians have to address histories honestly when even today the questions remain over whose stories shall be told?” In an interview before his departure, Sayers reflects that this politically charged atmosphere had dissipated by the time he began his directorship in 2010.
(4) The House of Representatives requirements for disclosing family members' interests state that incomes, savings accounts, liabilities, directorships and shares must be declared, and adds that “any other interests where a conflict of interest with a Member’s public duties could foreseeably arise or be seen to arise”.
(5) But in 1963 he became a professional historian, accepting directorship of the Columbus centre for studies of persecution and genocide at the University of Sussex.
(6) Most ex-envoys are content with a few directorships, a place on the board of a charity and an occasional media turn in their area of expertise.
(7) James Murdoch's non-executive directorship of BSkyB Ofcom found that his retention in a non-executive role did not mean that Sky was not fit and proper to hold broadcast licences.
(8) He is many other posts include a seat on the council of the Lloyd's insurance market, the chairman's role at the London Investment Bankers Association and directorships at Reuters, National Power and, currently, Legal & General.
(9) When the directorship of the Almeida, a struggling fringe venue in a run-down enclave of Islington, became available in 1990 the pair saw an opportunity to transplant the Citz's philosophy to London.
(10) In recalling the most significant events in the history of the Clinica del Lavoro from its inauguration in 1910, the author dedicates special attention to the work of the Clinic in the 35 years of his own Directorship.
(11) Nash repeats Furnival’s instruction to his accountant to cease his directorships.
(12) She queried why Murdoch had stepped down from two non-executive directorships at other companies but did not feel it was necessary to do so at BSkyB.
(13) Of the original “Big Five”, Martin Edwards made £94m from his directorships and sale of shares in Manchester United, David Moores £90m selling his inherited Liverpool stake to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, David Dein £75m selling the Arsenal stake he bought cheaply in the 1980s to Alisher Usmanov.
(14) Ministers and civil servants know that if they keep faith with corporations in office they will be assured of lucrative directorships in retirement.
(15) Patten's listing in the register of members' interests in the House of Lords lists a directorship plus four other paid positions, and his position at Oxford which is listed as a "non-financial interest".
(16) Since then, he has picked up a series of part-time non-executive directorships, including as chairman at online grocer Ocado .
(17) In 2000 he was elected as president and quickly elevated trusted members of the security services into the governerships of Russia's provinces, into ministries and into the directorships of state-owned companies.
(18) Whenever Blunkett has been in trouble – a ministerial resignation caused by the 2004 row over the issuing of a visa for his lover’s nanny ; another caused by claims concerning directorships – his reaction has been to immerse himself in the certainties of being MP for Sheffield Brightside.
(19) Approval to retain a directorship of a private company or business will be granted only if the prime minister is satisfied, on the advice of the secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, that no conflict of interest is likely to arise.
(20) His only punishment for the crime of aggression so far is a multimillion-pound book deal, massive speaking fees, posh directorships and an appointment as Middle East peace envoy, which must rank with Henry Kissinger's receipt of the Nobel peace prize as the supreme crime against satire.
(n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
(n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
(n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
(n.) Direction; guide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
(2) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(3) Anti-radicalisation is the whole community’s responsibility to deal with, not just the Muslim community.” Other critics point to provisions in the funding deed for the directory that allow the department to disclose confidential information about participants “to the responsible minister or prime minister”, or to a parliamentary committee.
(4) Patients admitted for the first AMI at 2 hospitals in Fukuoka City were aged 40 to 69 years, and control subjects were recruited based on the telephone directory of the city.
(5) On the basis of these findings, we conclude that PTH has the directory vasodepressive action and the effect of augmentation of the left ventricular contractile force.
(6) A computer-formatted directory was produced, with access via geographic location, personal name, organizational name, and keyword.
(7) You can find customer testimonials at online directory Allagents.co.uk .
(8) The resulting directory, published in July 1988, lists 494 programs involving 84 countries: 319 in medicine, 44 in dentistry, 30 in pharmacy, and 101 in public health.
(9) The Physician's Desk Reference and the United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information directory contain numerous warnings of potential interactions between topical glaucoma medications and systemically administered drugs.
(10) Jay Kennedy is head of policy at the Directory of Social Change This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
(11) It was here – "possibly in this very seat" – that his father made the fateful decision to watch his son's writing and directorial debut, a 2009 short called What Will Survive of Us , unaware that this Todd Solondz-inspired work was largely concerned with the topic of anal sex.
(12) Using another sample of death certificates, comparisons of the information for 322 decedents with city directory data produced similar results.
(13) Ninety-two percent of the respondents indicated a need for reviews of films and videotapes pertinent to occupational therapy, either in a directory--or a directory, with monthly reviews of new materials in the Occupational Therapy Newspaper or AJOT.
(14) The helpline, which gets one third of its funding from government and the rest from the finance industry, doesn't advertise its services but is listed in telephone directories.
(15) But the internal directory lists her as reporting directly to the chief financial officer, Tom Szkutak, not to Bezos.
(16) Systematic random sampling was used, and 1 out of 25 phone numbers were selected from the county telephone directory.
(17) I now have a pretty comprehensive mental directory of the helpful pharmacists and the unhelpful pharmacists in central London .
(18) An upgrade is required for the online and catalogue Directory business, as Next admits.
(19) Members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists were asked to supply information about their current programs and their own graduate training in order to compile a training directory and to analyze certain aspects of the discipline.
(20) At the same time as it decided to offload RBI, the company announced the £2.1bn acquisition of US risk-management business ChoicePoint to complement its suite of professional data businesses such as tax bible Tolley's and legal directory Butterworths.