Sentence examples for director in favour from inspiring English sources

The Dutchman, 50, replaces Dave Collins after UK Athletics opted to scrap the role of performance director in favour of a more hands-on coaching position.

For the rest of the season, Kings Place is eschewing an artistic director in favour of weekly "mini festivals", a series of concerts over four evenings, curated by various experts.

Given temporary command of the WAAAF on its formation in 1941, she was passed over as its inaugural Director in favour of corporate executive Clare Stevenson.

The museum's deputy director Andrew Burnett spoke in favour as did the LSE's Tony Travers, who described BIDs as "a fascinating example of urban innovation," which he'd first seen in the US in the 1990s, notably in New York, where, he said, there was no doubt that particular areas had been radically improved by them.

Gibson's boss, worldly Alan Alda, tells him that women are making the buying decisions nowadays, and therefore he is being passed over for the creative director's job in favour of someone who can intuit female consumers' desires: the ubiquitous Helen Hunt, here in professional glam mode, but, as ever, trading on what Hollywood sees as her non-threatening ordinariness.

After all, he was one of the five FOH directors to vote in favour of amending FOA's articles, which the banks claim was an improper change.

Pfizer said it would only make a firm offer if AstraZeneca directors voted unanimously in favour of the deal.

Although the BBFC's research showed that audiences were not always clear what a 12A certificate represented, the organisation's director David Cooke argued strongly in favour of its retention.

Disney would usually be expecting a box-office bounce from the release of its second Marvel film of the year, but doubts over Ant-Man persist after original director Edgar Wright was ditched in favour of Peyton Reed, who directed Jim Carrey's middling Yes Man.

But the CBI Wales director said she remained in favour of the status quo when it came to powers over income tax "in the absence of a full assessment of the costs and implications of devolving income tax".

Of the 17 remaining directors, only 10 voted in favour – only to be greeted with fresh prevarication.