(n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
(n.) An executioner.
(n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In other cases, family members have identified members of the police as the executors of these murders, killing women as retaliation for gang attacks on police officers.
(2) Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
(3) Anthea Grant died earlier this year, and named her sons Patrick and Josh as the executors of her will.
(4) الرقة تذبح بصمت (@Raqqa_SL) 1- #Raqqa Leena Al-Qasem (35 years) executor was her son Ali Saqr (born 1995) a member of #ISIS .
(5) "When Sylvia died Ted knew that Olwyn hated her and he appointed her as the sole executor for her work.
(6) So it's unsurprising that, half a century on, the arguments about her burn with ever-greater fervour, as proven by the extraordinary battle conducted last week in the Guardian's books section between Plath's friend Elizabeth Sigmund and a characteristically combative Olwyn Hughes , Ted Hughes's sister and the literary executor of Plath's estate.
(7) It is the executor's responsibility to deal with the estate of the person who died; that is, everything they owned.
(8) For a calm executor of a gameplan and a formidably accurate goal-kicker, there is a point where Farrell and his senses part company, usually when defeat or a setback is looming and he cannot control his frustration.
(9) Savile had appointed National Westminster bank as executor of his will.
(10) When Spark died in Italy in 2006, Jardine became her heir and literary executor.
(11) As a result, there was indifference on the part of enterprises, indifference and inadequate organization of occupational health services as executors of the specific health care measures, and indulgence on the part of the court, inspecting services and other competent bodies.
(12) In her art, Fay, who is also the joint executor with her sister Bea, of Ballard's literary estate , is echoing the work of her father, whose protagonists are often engaged in a desperate search for meaning following some catastrophic event, and who have to adapt to a harsh new environment.
(13) Upon this region, proposed as the PS FINAL COMMON REGION, conveges rostral and caudal information making it the executor of all PS phenomena.
(14) The community outreach program (COP) is based at a large southern university, where the nursing care center serves as executor of the project.
(15) He also left a large unpaid tax bill and such a mess of rights issues around the use of his beats – many given out freely on CDs to friends before his death – that the executor of his estate (also his accountant) Arty Erk, had to take out an ad in Billboard in April 2008 requesting that people stop using his client's work.
(16) Nine months later the executor of the estate filed a $2 million malpractice suit against the defendant doctor and the defendant hospital for wrongful death.
(17) It was shown that only calmodulin and troponin C but not parvalbumin bind calcium ions with concomitant formation of hydrophobic sites that are responsible for interaction with the "executor enzymes".
(18) Also, the information mechanisms which link planners, executors and the 'clients', were examined.
(19) The same, stifling July heat does not reach the swanky air-conditioned rooms where the advocates and executors of India’s new industrial corridors are based.
(20) Three executors will now be tasked with winding up the estate and carrying out Mandela's wishes: Moseneke, George Bizos, a lawyer and friend of Mandela for 65 years, and Themba Sangoni, the chief judge in Eastern Cape province, where Mandela was born.
Proxy
Definition:
(n.) The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
(n.) The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
(n.) A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
(n.) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
(n.) See Procuration.
(v. i.) To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relation to self-reports.
(2) Then they look at a poll and assume that a poll is a proxy for what is really going on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron and Crosby during the London mayoral campaign in 2012.
(3) The overall impact may be estimated by relating the degree of urbanization of populations to some proxy measure, like the under-5 mortality rates.
(4) In two-stage epidemiological study the screening wave and the diagnostic instrument should be considered together in relation to a third proxy gold standard such as progression of the disorder to moderate and greater severity and neuropathological diagnosis.
(5) After the diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy was made, the child was removed from the mother and he has since enjoyed good health.
(6) Mullen said earlier this week there is a "proxy connection" between Pakistani intelligence services and the Haqqanis, meaning the militants are secretly doing the Pakistanis' bidding.
(7) The results of the study suggest that in urban Bangladesh 24-hour recall and knowledge-attitude-practice questionnaires should not be used as proxies for direct observation of hygiene practices.
(8) This plays into the widespread belief that Muslims are under attack from a belligerent west and its local proxies.
(9) But the last thing we need is to start a proxy war between the generations.
(10) Saudis and their Sunni Arab allies view Houthi fighters – who belong to the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam – as Iranian proxies and have accused Tehran of militarily backing them, a charge Iran vehemently denies.
(11) Readiness to negotiate with Cameron shrinks if it starts to feel like a negotiation with the backbench of the Conservative party using Cameron as a proxy.
(12) Less confidence can be placed in proxy-based reconstructions of surface temperatures for AD 900 to 1600, although the available proxy evidence does indicate that many locations were warmer during the past 25 years than during any other 25-year period since 900."
(13) But beyond this, Ramsey has a fundamentally different conception of the child from McCormick, and therefore gives a very different interpretation to this standard for valid proxy consent.
(14) Find out the accepted forms of photo ID To apply to vote by post or proxy, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.
(15) Length of service was a good proxy predictor for most respiratory abnormalities, while respirable dust was a good proxy for respirable free silica.
(16) Pentagon assurances about the parlous state of its Syrian proxies are in doubt: within a week, it initially denied and then conceded that one group provided US equipment to al-Qaida in Syria and that it has paused the process of adding new recruits.
(17) He also hinted that western intelligence agencies had helped in the emergence of Isis, using the militants as a proxy to fight against the Syrian regime and thereby “putting the blades in their hands”.
(18) I think on issues like climate change and evolution it ends up being a proxy for identity politics,” said Michael Halpern, a program manager for the nonprofit and nonpartisan Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
(19) The delivery also comes amid an increasingly hot – if still largely proxy conflict – between Iran and Saudi Arabia, most recently in Yemen where the US has backed Saudi Arabia.
(20) Hagel reportedly urged the White House to clarify its intentions with regard to Assad, which analysts warn is a self-imposed obstacle to building its Syrian proxy force.