Sentence examples for executive means from inspiring English sources

While the Secret State Police worked with executive means, such as interrogations, confiscations, and so on, the Security Service never had executive powers.

That contract, said Jack L. Messman, Novell's chief executive, means Novell has "the right to authorize our customers to use Unix that is in Linux".

And David Gill's exit as chief executive means Richard Arnold now takes over as group managing director, with London-based executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward assuming many of Gill's responsibilities on the football side.

If Hewlett-Packard's ouster last week of its chief executive means software is no longer front and center in the company's future, no one told Mike Lynch, the chief executive of Autonomy.

"Being a chief executive means working with legislatures," said Marc LaVorgna, a spokesman for the mayor, "but it also means using executive authority and not shying away from making decisions without the benefit of political cover".

If present trends persist, Mr Chávez could come out of the November 23rd elections looking considerably weaker, even though his personal popularity remains high and the concentration of power in the executive means that his power base will remain strong.

Privately, some say the west coast background of prominent members of the Scottish executive mean anything artistic is seen as "something for Edinburgh and for toffs".

Mr. Kreher said that the time Mr. Heins spent after leaving Siemens for RIM but before becoming the Canadian company's chief executive meant "that he knows the company's strengths and weaknesses in North America as much as anyone".

Only the legendary broadcaster Frank Stanton of CBS led a television network company longer than Bob Wright has — and that was in an era, ending in the early 1970s, when being a television executive meant having a license to print money.

Explicit public backing for Clemo from the council's leader and chief executive meant she could continue the redesign of social work practice she'd begun the year before.

Q: What does becoming chief executive mean in practical terms? A. Formerly budget-making decisions used to fall to the board of directors; they're now the responsibility of the director.