Sentence examples for director meaning from inspiring English sources

As he acknowledged in his statement, at 67 he already exceeds the age limit of 65 for candidates for managing director, meaning a change in I.M.F.

At the company's annual meeting, also Tuesday, shareholders sided with management rejected all four shareholder proposals, including a measure requiring stock options granted to senior executives be performance-based and a second that called for the board chairman to be an independent director, meaning someone not employed by the company.

Five months after its formation, the new federal agency tasked with safeguarding the financial interests of ordinary people is still without a director, meaning it cannot regulate the kinds of lenders that consumer groups say prey on the poor.

He is a "Class C" director, meaning that he was appointed by the board to represent the public.

Mr Romney wants all his proposals to be "actionable", says Lanhee Chen, his campaign policy director (meaning, in this case, "capable of being acted on").

Further, shareholder-nominated candidates may be limited to, say, only two directors, meaning that it would take several years to use the mechanism to unseat entrenched boards.Even these modest adjustments will face stiff opposition from America's business lobby.

At the end of the season, in November 1937, it was announced that he had accepted a job, joining the Marsham Tyres board of directors, meaning he would play as an amateur in the future.

Vale's fans have been campaigning for the removal of the board and former chairman Peter Miller resigned as a director earlier this week, meaning the board has fewer than the four directors required by law to allow the club to function properly.

"I sometimes refer to it as a portrait," the director said, "meaning that it was one painting out of many that could have been drawn over the years of the president's life".

How Mr. Haneke and Mr. Russell convey the central relationships in their movies opens a window onto how each director expresses meaning through the dialogue and the performances; through human gestures and camera moves; through what is inside the frame and how everything in it is arranged (carefully or with feigned informality); through editing and its rhythms; through music or its absence.

It was his good or bad fortune to lead the festival during what will probably be seen as the last flowering of German Regietheater, meaning director's theater.