Examples of chairman

• Sidney ruthlessly clawed his way up from the position of junior clerk to chairman of the company .

• In his closing remarks, the chairman thanked everyone who had helped.

• "Let's draw this meeting to a close, gentlemen, " said the chairman.

• I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.

• The chairman said that he would now take questions from the floor .

• Delegations appointed State chairmen and secretaries to carry on the work of further organization for the November convention. 

• I became the chairman of a glee club, which I conducted at public concerts, in spite of my youth. 

• It seemed to be at hand, and in a parliamentary uproar the "question" was vehemently demanded, but the chairman skillfully managed at length to secure an adjournment. 

• The chairman of the committee boasted that the number of petitioners the present session, for the abolition of slavery in the District, was only thirty-four thousand! 

• The chairman said that there was little doubt but that further investigation into electrolytic methods of chemical analysis would give even more valuable results than those already obtained. 

• Those who took sugar in theirs had the cup dashed from their lips just as they were draining the delicious dregs, for the officer and culprit appeared, and the chairman rapped the assembly to order. 

• Although the basic pattern is the same in 1995 as in 1975, recruitment of board chairmen has still changed significantly for both types of organizations.

• Each committee would elect its chief/chairman at its first meeting session; s/he would be assisted by one to three deputies.

• The chairmen of the senior committees believe that a hospital ethics committee has an educational role in the institution.

• In 1995, also chairmen of corporate look-alikes were recruited to a great extent among business executives, a rarity 20 years earlier.

• For some reason, the chairman took a shine to me, and hired me - but we never talked about voice again.

• In both types of organizations, it is rare that current or former national politicians or representatives of organized interests are board chairmen.

• Practically, an organiser (such as a chairman or a tally clerk) is needed to accomplish a voting task.

• In some cases, the chairman acts in a unilateral form with all authority centered on him.

• First, an altered recruitment pattern for board chairmen has changed the profile of government corporations.

• Teaching has impacted more on one professor's playing since he became chairman of his orchestra, and has had less time for practice.

• Many of them elected men associated with the extreme traditional right wing to be their chairmen.

• Twelve of the ninety-two were in some way related to another member of the committee, sometimes being the wife of the chairman.

• The chairman of a committee can respond to an ambiguity by having members of the committee revote on a disambiguated proposal.

• He, too, was close to the employers, as a prominent member and former chairman of the chamber of commerce.

• A report to the chief of staff and my chairman resulted in my loss of hospital privileges, and a report to the medical board.