Sentence examples for figures overseeing from inspiring English sources

Historically executives have ascended to boards after full careers to assume the role of august figures overseeing a company and its long-term survival.

David Jones, global CEO at Havas, is considered one of the world's most influential advertising figures, overseeing the movements of the global communications company across 75 countries.

Labour has claimed that work on the £500m IT delivery contract has hit serious problems, and has pointed to the departures of several key figures overseeing the development of the computer program.

Company insiders said that Mr. di Montezemolo was the last of the powerful figures overseeing the Formula One team to endorse Mr. Raikkonen as a replacement for the popular Felipe Massa, the Brazilian who has spent eight years driving for Ferrari in Formula One, and that he entertained considerable misgivings before finally endorsing the move after Sunday's Monza race.

One of the senior figures overseeing the scheme has predicted the most likely outcome from the talks is to only partially complete the tram line for now – eight stops and 4km short of its original destination – leaving questions over when and how the 18.5km-long line will ever be fully built.

"If he plays a role, it's more like a moral figure overseeing the movement".

The supreme leader, who holds the position for life, is the most important figure, overseeing everything.

There are also fears the outburst will undermine his role as the senior figure overseeing parliamentary discipline.

Mr. Jackson, who died in June, was a towering and controversial figure, overseeing the building of the international terminal in the 1970's and demanding a share of its contracts for blacks.

Peter Hain, the shadow Welsh secretary, has asked to keep his current portfolio so he can retain his role as chair of Labour's National Policy Forum and as the key figure overseeing Refounding Labour, the project designed to modernise Labour's structures at every level.

First seen cutting a dashing, Southgate-ish figure overseeing British India's team for the Berlin Games, his recovery from booze-induced wartime blackouts entails the quasi-militaristic business of recruitment – Kagti scouting far and wide for nicely etched character studies – then training and eventually battle on overseas soil.