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chairman

A chairman is the person who controls a meeting or an organization. Alan Eastwood is the former chairman of the Police Federation. Mr Saatchi will continue as chairman but is being replaced as chief executive by Robert Louis-Dreyfus. Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen I'd like to present to the board the results of our research.

chairman

(= chairperson) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization address your remarks to the chairperson (= chair) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university She chaired the department for many years

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Simple sentences

The chairman resigned out of the blue.
The chairman should take the minority opinion into account.
The students chose her chairman.
The chairman of the meeting became ill.
We made Mr Grey chairman of the committee.
Mr. Thomas had no objection to Mr. White being elected chairman.
Nobody argued against choosing him as chairman.
We elected James chairman.
I'll recommend him as chairman, whether you are in favour of it or not.
We made him chairman.
We elected him chairman.
I am acquainted with the chairman of the committee.
We elected Jack chairman.
He was elected chairman.
The chairman put forward an important plan at the meeting.
We selected the chairman by a vote.
Kindly address yourself to the chairman, not directly to other representatives at this meeting.
I am acquainted with the chairman of that club.
I've spent so many years as chairman that I feel it's time I stepped down.
Ten to one he will be elected chairman.
He was invited to be the chairman of the club.
He's the chairman of the committee.

Movie subtitles

Chairman of the board of directors of Colet and Company.
Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for my hesitation in rising just now. but I'd entirely failed while listening. to the chairman's flattering description of the next speaker. to realize he was talking about me.
Your uncle was chairman of the board.
The first order of business will be electing a new chairman of the board.
As a sentimental gesture toward the best friend that opera ever had-- the late Mr. Semple-- l think it only fitting that his nephew, Mr. Longfellow Deeds. should be made our next chairman.
I'm chairman!
What does the chairman do?
Good-bye, and thank you for making me chairman.
I told 'em I'd go on being chairman if- l'm chairman, you know.
Well, you're the chairman, so that's the boss, isn't it?
I explained you wanted to be the chairman of the board of directors.
My grandfather's John Colley, chairman of the school governors.
She was chairman of our farewell committee.
Comrade chairman!
Comrade chairman, the tractor is standing still!
The union chairman?
Your uncle was chairman.
As a gesture toward the best friend that opera ever had, the late Mr Semple, it's fitting his nephew, Longfellow Deeds, be made our next chairman.
I'm chairman? - Yes.
Well, the chairman presides the meeting.
Goodbye, and thank you for making me chairman.
I told 'em I'd be chairman if.
Comrade Chairman.
Mr. Chairman!
Who's a busy man, me? I'm chairman of the board.
I'm chairman of the board. I got nothing but time.
Mom, I'm chairman of the Eats Committee.
Mr. Chairman, I'd like to get to my real purpose.
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to dissolve this institution and turn its assets and liabilities over to the receiver.
Mr. Chairman. It's too soon after Peter Bailey's death to talk about chloroforming the Building and Loan.
Perhaps I should remind you why we were sent to Berlin, since our chairman, Mr Pennecot of New Hampshire, has been indisposed ever since we took off from Washington.
As committee chairman, permit me to bring you greetings from the people of the United States of America.
I sure hope our chairman has made notes of that speech of yours.
Oh, Sara, now- Herman, I'm chairman of the local, ain't I?

News and current affairs

Romney has said that he would not reappoint Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman (likely candidates: economists Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw, John Taylor, and Martin Feldstein).
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there is Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter's compromise proposal.
We have heard Texas Governor Rick Perry call obliquely for the lynching of his fellow Republican, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, should he come to the Lone Star State.
Could the American public's faith in Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, America's central bank, be a satisfactory explanation?
Does anyone doubt that the jailing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of Yukos oil, is politically motivated?
BERKELEY - US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke is not regarded as an oracle in the way that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, was before the financial crisis.
BERKELEY - William McChesney Martin, a Democrat, was twice reappointed to the job of Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
I was its founding chairman, and I don't think anyone considers it a success.
Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, recently said that he now believes that speculative bubbles are important driving forces in our economy, but that, at the same time, the world's monetary authorities cannot control bubbles.
A new report from a task force co-chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker indicates that unfunded pension and health-care costs make many American states' medium- and longer-run fiscal prospects bleak.
The options backdating scandal that recently caught Apple's chairman, Steve Jobs, is a microcosm of innovation, prosecution, and reform; now that a rule has been written to prohibit backdating, this particular scam will not happen again.
The highest party posts will change hands at the Congress, including the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, the General Secretary of the Party, and several Politburo Standing Committee members.
And former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan resisted any attempts to rein in the animal spirits of the wealth creators on Wall Street.
Arthur Levitt, the former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, recognized the conflict: as many within the auditing firms focus on their own short-term interests, the integrity of the audits could be compromised.
Vice President Richard Cheney was in effect lead conductor of the group when he served as Chairman of Halliburton, the world's largest oil services company.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently defined America's colossal fiscal deficits as the biggest threat to its national security.
The Fed chairman's comments come at a critical and sensitive moment.
As this history suggests, it is more remarkable for a US president not to reappoint a Fed chairman named by the opposite party than to reappoint one who wishes it.
Capital flight, interest-rate spikes, declining private investment, and a collapse in the value of the dollar - all of these are likely should financial markets lose confidence in a Fed chairman.
Will something like that, too, happen in our own dystopian world (in which all remaining Republican US presidential candidates seem to favor firing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke)?
The traditional view, notably shared by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, is that any attempt to prick financial bubbles in advance is doomed to failure.
As Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board, he has gone further than any other central banker in recent times in attempting to stimulate the economy through monetary policy.
Chairman Mao's rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, then went to Islamabad, where he met the commander of the Pakistani army for several hours.
Led by US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, an economic historian of the Great Depression, they remembered the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and loosened monetary and fiscal policy to avoid the worst.
The chairman of the party at the time, running the winning campaign, was me.
I was, after all, once a party chairman.

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