'chair' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a piece of furniture designed for sitting on, usually with four legs and a back. For example, "The chair was a modern, stylish design that fit perfectly with the room's other furnishings."
Margaret Hodge, a former Labour minister and chair of the Commons public accounts committee, also defended the policy, arguing consumers are suffering too much from high prices.
Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is to chair the first in a series of meetings that will include national MPs, government figures and regional officials in line with proposals drafted by the OSCE – a transatlantic security and rights group that includes Russia and the US.
Fitt and Devlin, coming from similar backgrounds and with similarly explosive temperaments, once had to be dragged out of a fist fight behind the Speaker's chair at Stormont.
He is understood to have been offered another deal to carry on posing the questions to contestants facing him in the infamous black chair.
Alex McDowell – head of legacy and tribute fundraising at NSPCC and chair of Remember a Charity Alex's fundraising career has included roles in the higher education sector, direct marketing and community fundraising as well as serving as head of fundraising at The Shakespeare Hospice in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Alex will be online from 1pm.
The Greens' former national chair Penny Kemp, who is now the party's communications chief, said it had to be the party's "No 1 priority" to get Lucas re-elected, and denied there would be any consternation from other Green candidates.
I should have known not to listen to him when he arrived at rehearsals with his own canvas chair.
It is also important to have an appreciation of the "nuances" in recruitment practice when recruiting for a chair, trustee or senior manager.
"The Ebola epidemic in western Africa overwhelmed fragile health systems, killed thousands of people, and highlighted major inadequacies in our ability to respond to global public health emergencies," said Amy Gutmann, the commission chair.
In 2004, Lord Coe, chairman of the Olympic bidding committee, Ken Livingstone, London's then mayor, and John Biggs, then deputy chair of the London Development Agency, signed an "Ethical Olympics Pledge" in return for local support, giving guarantees on housing, jobs and training, and the promise that 30% of construction jobs would be set aside for local people.
As party chair, she made enemies of MPs who found her manner abrasive and who doubted her grasp of the party machine.
