Sentence examples for direct affairs from inspiring English sources

NEW POLITICAL ERA DAWNS; Washington Looks for President to Direct Affairs Himself.

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The author as God must lean from his heaven and direct affairs in the way he requires them to go, and we mortal readers must erect small gantries from which to suspend our varieties of disbelief.

The manager asks: "What problems have to be solved, and what are the best ways to achieve results so that people will continue to contribute to this organization?" From this perspective, leadership is simply a practical effort to direct affairs; and to fulfill his or her task, a manager requires that many people operate efficiently at different levels of status and responsibility.

While General Putnam was on the scene attempting to direct affairs, unit commanders often misunderstood or disobeyed orders.

But influence is never a direct affair.

The seventh Foo Fighters album has been heralded as a back-to-basics sort of record, a direct affair impaled squarely on a set of devil's horns.

It was also a fairly direct affair: Mr. Dixon, at a desk on one side of the stage, read Janacek's passionate letters; Maedell Dixon (they are married) offered a narrative overview and played Kamila, taking up some of the readings as well.

Acilius Attianus, as prefect of the Praetorian Guard, directed affairs in Rome before Hadrian's return.

When Laguna becomes president of Esthar, Ward joins Kiros as an advisor, directing affairs with gestures and ellipses.

As a leading member of the committee overseeing the navy (where he was joined by schoolmate Thomas Scot), he directed affairs in the naval First Anglo-Dutch War (1652 1654).