Sentence examples for chairman set up from inspiring English sources

That rule, endorsed by William H. Donaldson, then the S.E.C. chairman, set up a lot of hoops to be leaped through before an institutional shareholder could nominate a rival candidate to appear on the company's proxy.

In casting a deciding vote for the Republican map, which was approved 7 to 6, John Farmer Jr., the redistricting panel chairman, set up a potential re-election battle in the northern part of the state between two ideological opponents — Scott Garrett, a conservative Republican, and Steve Rothman, a liberal Democrat.

When Fred Borch, then General Electric's chairman, set up the company's strategic planning department in the early 1970s, he called on both McKinsey and the Boston Consulting Group.

Kaplan, AI's chairman, set up the firm eight years ago after building and selling two other financial data crunchers: Capital Management Sciences, a bond analysis outfit, and the online financial portal MarketWatch.

A committee, with NATO's deputy secretary general, Sergio Balanzino, as chairman, was set up to monitor progress.

Shortly after assuming his role as Football Association chairman, Greg Dyke set up a commission tasked with trying to reverse the steep decline in the number of Englishmen playing regularly in the top flight.

Former chairman Allan Leighton set up the share scheme along with former chief executive Adam Crozier in 2007 to give staff an incentive to boost productivity and compete with private sector rivals.

In his absence, the vice chairman, Roger W. Ferguson Jr., set up a command post to monitor financial conditions in the United States and help shape the international response to the economic and financial risks.

Unhappy with the graduation rates at the community colleges of the City University of New York, HERMAN BADILLO, CUNY's chairman, has set up a task force of trustees to examine the two-year colleges as well as other associate degree programs.

The FA chairman will set up a commission to ask key questions on how England can change its long-term prospects.

The PRGB, comprising the four regions, the WRU and an independent chairman, was set up following a professional review of the game in Wales.