The word "directorate" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a group of people who are responsible for managing an organization or making decisions. For example, "The company's new directorate developed a strategy to improve customer service."
Andreas Schleicher, director of the OECD's education directorate, was scathing about the country's "disappointing" performance, saying he had once viewed Sweden as "the model for education".
The Met said in a statement: "The Metropolitan police's directorate of professional standards consulted the Crown Prosecution Service about the alleged leaking of information by a police officer from Operation Weeting.
Musharraf said Pakistani spies in the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) cultivated the Taliban after 2001 because Karzai's government was dominated by non-Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group, and officials who were thought to favour India.
Anna Aquilina, specialist crime directorate strategy adviser, said 47% of the crime networks are cultural.
Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, head of the specialist crime directorate, said globalisation, economic migration and the rapid growth of technology had made London a hub for criminals from all over the world.
Previously players from Amkar, Torpedo and Mordovia filmed similar appeals as part of a campaign organised by the Directorate of Sports and Social Programmes, an NGO partnered with the Russian Football Union and Fare.
A leaked proposal from the directorate-general for the European Union's single market suggests that Michel Barnier, the commissioner in charge, thinks the industry needs reform from top to bottom.
Sergei Yakovlev worked for the SVR's elite S-directorate, which runs "illegals": spies who acquire a genuine identity in a foreign country.
A special Eurobarometer poll commissioned by Ms Reding's directorate-general, published this week, found that three-quarters were in favour of laws to ensure sex balance on boards.
Alastair Johnston, the former Rangers chairman, has requested that the government's Intelligence & Enforcement Directorate investigate Craig Whyte's acquisition of the Ibrox club.
Such acts are also a sin against God, the preachers will say: they contravene the Prophet's teaching on clemency.The idea of using Muslim sermons to stamp out one of most grisly practices of traditional society, of which dozens of cases still occur every year, belongs to Ali Bardakoglu, the new head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate.
