Sentence examples for director variable from inspiring English sources

His achievements as a director, variable as they were, did not go unnoticed by his peers: Martin Scorsese is quoted as saying that he wanted him to photograph Cape Fear because: "The main thing was Freddie's understanding of the concept of the gothic atmosphere..

Using a similar strategy, Pannell has run a $5.7 billion subaccount for Hartford's popular Director Variable Annuity since mid-1991.

This result underlines the need to control for other director-level variables such as role, and we do so in our empirical specifications.

As a director, he was variable in achievement yet steadfast in ambition.

Mr. Greif, the talented but variable director of the terrific "Romeo and Juliet" at the Delacorte and the emotionally charged "Next to Normal" on Broadway, has refrained from piling conceptual baggage on a work that is fantastical enough to begin with.

The Fortis Bank Nederland, which was bought by the Dutch government in October, said its directors would forgo variable pay and bonuses for 2008.

Last month the European Commission recommended that, each year, firms release a breakdown of all the components of their directors' fixed and variable pay.

Before she became director of the variable-stars association, she briefly served as an assistant to her predecessor and taught physics and astronomy at the American College Institute in Turkey and Aegean University.

Fund manager Fidelity is among those taking a hard line, saying boards should be required to seek shareholder approval for "annual variable compensation" for directors before payment.

"Hate crime reporting has been extremely variable," said Robert Leikind, the director of the Connecticut office of the Anti-Defamation League.

"On this snapshot, the advice seems somewhat variable," commented Roger Smith, the director of Justice and one of the judges.