Sentence examples for did director general from inspiring English sources

Andrew Gilligan, whose Today report on Iraq WMDs caused the trouble, resigned straight after Hutton in January 2004, as did director general Greg Dyke and chairman Gavyn Davies.

Only in June did the WHO call a meeting of its Global Outbreak Alert committee, and only then, it seems, did WHO Director General Margaret Chan take a long hard look at the situation, telling Bloomberg's news agency last week that she was "very unhappy" at what she had discovered.

That is what he did as director general of the BBC.

What if the chief regulator of BBC taste, fairness and decency (Ofcom) is the guy who didn't become director general supervising the man or woman who did?

To do so, the director general of the prisons said in a statement, would "make it impossible for inmates to break ties with the terrorist organizations when they wish to".

"What gets measured, gets done," says World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan.

"Bringing the FA Cup back to the BBC was something I really wanted to do," said BBC director general Tony Hall.

Many people credit this to work done by the director general of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh, Nigeria's so called "iron lady".

"We need to ask the medical ethicists to give us guidance on what the responsible thing to do is," WHO Assistant Director General Marie-Paule Kieny said in a statement.

It has already apologised for that mistake and its director general did so again yesterday evening.

Some on the board threatened to walk if the director general did not.