Sentence examples for ecd from inspiring English sources

His group operates on the Web at www.thing.net/rdom/ecd/ ecd.html.html

The New York Times recently analysed executive pay in America and found that bosses typically get 500 times the salary of the average worker at their firms; the ratio at ECD is five to one.

ECD has even "hacked" a Toyota Prius hybrid car so that it runs on pure hydrogen rather than petrol, which he says proves that "we don't have to wait for fuel cells to move into the hydrogen economy".All this makes it tempting to compare ECD's co-founder with Thomas Edison, the great inventor from another age who founded General Electric.

His intellectual curiosity appears entirely undiminished by a life of learning: his desk at ECD is buried under neat stacks of annotated scientific papers, business plans and other reading material.

He and his wife Iris, who died recently, founded ECD in 1960 with the explicitly stated goal of "using creative science to solve societal problems".

What is more, ECD is visibly committed to clean energy and Mr Ovshinsky is clearly not motivated by money.

It was EC legislation that needed to be changed.

Agreed in 2000, the declaration states that, when framing laws, the EC "must take account of the social, educational and cultural functions inherent in sport" to preserve its unique role in modern communities.

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the ECB, José Manuel Barroso, president of the EC, and Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Eurogroup countries and prime minister of Luxembourg, have all separately attacked Merkel in recent months, calling her "naive" and "simple".

There is little doubt that the IMF and EC miscalculated when they forced Greece into a second bailout in 2012 that repaid private lenders with EU and IMF funds.

However, some of her cabinet colleagues are reluctant to set up a clash with the EU as the EC has indicated the principles of free movement are non-negotiable.