(n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.
(n.) A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.
(n.) In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Luxigon “The mayor is convinced that we will see the same result in terms of less traffic and lower pollution as we did with the left bank highway closure, in which case there will be no reason for the police prefect to object to it.” Paris is banning traffic from half the city.
(2) "There were kids in the sixth form, prefects, who we knew were Combat 18 , and we were like, 'What the fuck?'
(3) From the plague's ominous annunciation, the first dead rat, rotting on the turn of the stair in the protagonist's apartment block, to the end of the first act and the prefect's terse command, "close the town", plot fits meaning with tailored perfection.
(4) There are weak points that are not acceptable,” Philippe Galli, prefect for the Seine-Saint-Denis region that is in part responsible for security at the stadium, told Le Parisien newspaper .
(5) France’s interior minister, Victor de Persigny, believed Haussmann to be the ideal candidate for the job of Prefect of the Seine and overseer of Napoléon III’s plan to transform the city.
(6) Steve Barbet, the police spokesman for the local prefect in Calais, said: “We do not use teargas without a good reason and use of teargas has to be authorised and it is only authorised when it is necessary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London calling?
(7) The Guardian is shown around CCA by a prefect, Ben, discussing the byelection and Ukip; Ben declares himself a communist and says he wants to be a history professor.
(8) When you explain to parents their child gets less, they go through the process of shock, disbelief and then they get angry.” Daisy Airstone, a 16-year-old prefect in year 11, was similarly shocked.
(9) The prefect's office said any large "festive gathering" is also outlawed.
(10) She insists she only ever led female cadres her own age, and that it had been her job, as a school prefect, to teach other students how to hide under their desks during air-raids.
(11) Each of them was interned by order of civil prefect in the maximum security ward of the C.H.S.
(12) Instead Paris’s prefect of police – the state representative – this week approved the closure of the riverside route for a six-month trial.
(13) His father was a mantle manufacturer with high academic hopes for his children, and Robert went to William Hulme grammar school, where he was head prefect and captain of the rugby team.
(14) The new Conservative chief whip, Andrew Mitchell – dubbed "Thrasher" for being a tough prefect at his public school and a noted strong-armer of MPs in the Commons – seems alarmingly well-qualified on the first count.
(15) Among the prefects of political and economic commentary, the standard thing to do this morning is to rehearse Trump’s fury at free trade, to look at the voters that most of them have never bothered talking to – and to squawk that America has struck out in a new and radically different direction.
(16) Over the course of 17 years I disturbed their daily routines by turning Paris upside down; and they had to look at the same face of the prefect in the Hôtel de Ville.
(17) Announcing the six-month trial closure, Paris’s police prefect, Michel Cadot, said he would be watching closely its impact on traffic and pollution, and warned the highway would be reopened if it caused “a major traffic problem”.
(18) The office of the prefect of Naples did not respond to requests for comment, including requests for information that is supposed to be public about how much the firm has been paid by the Italian government.
(19) 8.40pm BST Paul and Mary watch Glenn make his "new pastry" like a couple of smoking prefects at the corner of the netball court, watching a first year pick up their used fag butts.
(20) The head prefects in our politics and media see disorder and immediately cry insurrection This isn’t the mainstream view.
Procurator
Definition:
(n.) One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor.
(n.) A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
(2) Thus, HBsAG screening should be done along with the implementation of a blood policy that ensures the procurement of sufficient blood for hemotheraphy in Ethiopia.
(3) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(4) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(5) The number of synaptic sites is regulated by both pre- and postsynaptic cells, in proportion to their cell surfaces; an independent size increase in the receptor terminals (procured in the Drosophila mutant gigas) produces an increase in their synaptic population.
(6) Currently, procurement is obtained from living donors.
(7) Since 1986, the number of kidneys procured in New York City increased while the number procured nationally fell.
(8) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
(9) Different procurement systems have already made England a slightly "different country" for Scottish suppliers, many of whom are more concerned about Cameron's equivocal attitude towards the European Union.
(10) ChE depression is determined by comparison of the affected specimen to normal ChE activity for a sample of control specimens of the same species, but timely procurement of controls is not always possible.
(11) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
(12) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
(13) The taskforce said "smarter use" could be made of the government's £150bn procurement budget to better support innovation and suggested the creation of a new Department for Science and Innovation under its own secretary of state.
(14) A previously described technique of simultaneous whole liver and pancreas procurement depended on "classic" hepatic arterial anatomy, which is present just over half the time.
(15) Procurement experts looking to work in this part of the world will get great experience of project contracting work, demandfor which are likely to continue to increase.
(16) The Southeastern Regional Organ Procurement Program has developed a computerized system for the selection of organ transplant recipients.
(17) Despite increasing referrals for organ donation in metropolitan New York, procurement has remained essentially unchanged from 1983 through 1988 at 9 to 13 per million population, falling far short of increasing demand.
(18) Surgical-pathologic staging was performed laparoscopically, with exploration of the abdomen and procurement of peritoneal cytology and pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes.
(19) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
(20) The reliability of these techniques is dependent on proficient specimen procurement and the cytopathologist's expertise and experience.