Sentence examples for behind a department from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, he leaves behind a department that is losing much of its veteran leadership to retirement, and many of its younger officers to better-paying jobs, and that now confronts the challenge of securing New York from terrorist threats that had not been envisioned until Sept. 11.

And long before brokering agreements between bickering world leaders in her capacity as President Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright learned how to deal with people in uneasy situations by selling bras behind a department store counter in Denver.

But Helbrant only vaguely alludes to guilt, when he sees the wife of one of his victims, now reduced to working behind the counter of a department store while her radio-announcer husband languishes in jail: "I turned before she saw me.

Garbage is everywhere, and the stench of human feces wafts from an open-air toilet right behind a parks department building.

Mr. Zabar's office, behind a housewares department where one can find two varieties of pink toaster, is decorated with pictures of his four grandchildren and a needlepoint rendition of the storefront.

Dr. Rosebrook told the group an anecdote about being in a department store behind a slow-moving older woman, when an impatient customer behind her called the woman a "Q-Tip head".

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So is Bobbi Brown, the makeup artist behind an upscale department store line, whose recent volume of makeup tips, "Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty" (HarperCollins), spent six weeks on The New York Times list of best-selling children's books.

He was called onto the carpet this week by members of the Senate who are threatening to revisit No Child Left Behind unless the department fully enforces the law as written.

LONDON — The Ecuadorean Embassy here, a small redbrick building behind Harrods department store, became a center of international intrigue Tuesday when the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wandered in on a sunlit afternoon, trailing a web of legal and diplomatic complications.

"Open government holds a lot of promise but as a lawyer I knew the law was years behind a lot of departments," Reed says.