Sentence examples for director against from inspiring English sources

Green is at pains, though, to defend the director against his accusers.

Nancy, in contrast, may have nature and the director against her, but she's more than capable of fighting back.

It was Dennis's great regret that he only achieved eight credits as a director (against over 200 as an actor) and he felt that those talents were badly neglected.

The election in the First Legislative District pits Kevan M. Abrahams, the legislative Democrats' budget director, against Ricardo S. LaRosa, a Republican and career counselor for Hempstead Works, a federally funded job training program in Hempstead Town.

The dispute focused on Mr. Kerry's announcement speech and pitted Mr. Jordan and Mr. Lehane, then serving as communications director, against Mr. Shrum and members of Mr. Kerry's Boston-based circle of family and advisers, campaign workers say.

As in other fights, this one pitted her male strategists, including pollster Geoff Garin and Howard Wolfson, her bulldog of a communications director, against some of the women, including campaign manager Maggie Williams, brought in late to restore order and bring some humanity.

By Julia Fromholz, Director, Crimes Against Humanity Program.

Employment contracts and company by-laws usually protect, or indemnify, executives and directors against liabilities, including legal fees associated with defending against such suits.

Mr. Schechner's article pits directors against writers by trying to link a creative response to the classics with an alleged dearth of new work.

He prefers the sort of scheme adopted by Cadbury Schweppes, a British food company which benchmarks its share scheme for directors against the performance of 30 consumer-goods firms, including Unilever and Coca-Cola.

Marsh, an insurance firm, reports that the premiums that companies pay to insure their directors against lawsuits have shot up by between 35% and 900% recently, depending on the business.