Sentence examples for chief plank from inspiring English sources

Perceval was shot on the day the Commons was debating a motion by Henry Brougham to rescind the notorious "orders in council", the chief plank in Perceval's policy for the defeat of Napoleon.

The chief plank of his economic policy is repealing all Mr Bush's tax cuts; Mr Kerry, by contrast, says he will keep most of them, claiming the middle class should not pay for Mr Bush's mistakes.Perhaps the deepest flaw, however, has become the issue of "character".

A chief plank of the 2010 GOP platform was to wipe the Affordable Care Act from the books and replace it with something else.

Yet the bank lost billions, its stock took a hit and the chief executive walked the plank.

When that goal was met in 2004, Plank and Chief Executive G. StevenFarris awarded every employee a stock grant equal to at least one year's salary.

The band's chief live technician, Peter Clements, or "Plank", has worked with the band since before The Bends, overseeing the setup of their instruments for studio recordings and live performances.

Five years ago, when the Brotherhood adopted a draft party platform that called for barring women and non-Muslims from the presidency, Mr. Morsi was a chief defender of the controversial planks, inside and outside the group.

Plank took over as chief executive in 1963, an office he still holds at the age of 77.

Plank and Haley, his innovation chief, gave interviews to try to quiet the speculation, even as the case against the suit seemed to be dissolving.

There is a temptation to think Citi's write-offs are too high, given that they were announced just as Chuck Prince was being forced to walk the plank and step down as chief executive.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Ofsted chief inspector, has hit out at a key plank of the government's education policy, arguing that struggling schools are no better off in academy chains than under local authority control.