Sentence examples for director slot from inspiring English sources

Although nominations for the managing director slot do not close until Friday, some economists say the battle is already lost.

Two year ago, China sought, unsuccessfully, the creation of a fourth deputy managing director slot for one of its top economists, Zhu Min.

"Not everyone can be a resident choreographer of a major ballet company or wants to wait for the artistic director slot to open up," said the Joyce's executive director, Linda Shelton.

But this week it led the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards (which snubbed Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the Golden Globes (which gave McDonagh a Best Director slot over Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele).

– the so-called "lone director" slot was a near-annual fixture on the ballot: the film-maker sufficiently admired by his directing peers to land a nomination, but whose film wasn't universally pleasing enough to crack the list.

Anyway, this year some (Mr Shone and Mr Ebert among them) expect the best director slot to go to Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln"; others (such as the the majority of the Gurus) to Ang Lee for "Life of Pi", in many ways a less satisfying film but an extraordinary piece of filmmaking.

A rule change a few years ago means that there can be up to ten best film nominations, but there are only five best director slots, so such oddities are likely to crop up more often in years to come.

Ms. Nicholas, whose first career inspiration was the ice skater Dorothy Hamill, was in high school in Lynbrook on Long Island when she read the book that recalibrated her plans: Leave it to Ed Koch to make the City Hall press secretary and communications director slots sound like fun and games.

So too do many top executives from the e-commerce firm being floated, as well as several from Alibaba-related entities (in finance and logistics) that are not part of the flotation.As for the board itself, four of the directors' slots will be held by top bosses at Alibaba.

Holdings distributed to some 250 family members, but outsiders now being brought in for CEO and board of directors slots.

The former committee head was an executive of Home Depot, where Mr. Grasso holds a director's slot, which he now promises to relinquish.