Sentence examples for means chief from inspiring English sources

In French, the word chef means chief.

That means chief executive ­Vittorio Colao could claim to have hit the spending accelerator at the right moment.

The lack of a home delivery service in Britain was singled out as a key factor in a 2.5% drop in like-for-like sales in the runup to Christmas, which means chief executive Dalton Philips is looking at Fresh Direct for inspiration.

Unlike Clavell's character, whose nickname means "chief executive" in Cantonese, he wasn't trading opium but something else China craved: the raw materials it would need to industrialize a backward nation.

Yesterday's decision by a Delaware judge in favor of HP and against dissident board member Walter Hewlett Walter Hewlett means Chief Executive Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina must now begin walking the long road toward accomplishing what she's been promising for six months.

While passing through Umtali on their way to Salisbury, the soldiers encountered the RNR's original commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Tomlinson, whom they promptly mobbed, excitedly chanting nkosi, nkosi (which roughly means "chief" in Sindebele).

Together, Mr. Lee and Mr. Green have a daft comic energy, and they are assisted by game performances from the rest of the cast, especially John C. McGinley (the mean chief resident on "Scrubs," who here plays a cue-ball-headed police detective) and Richard Jenkins (the ghostly dad from "Six Feet Under") as a rich widower with a curious way of mourning his deceased wife.

Asked during his confirmation hearing what he thought that sentence meant, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that the Miller decision had "side-stepped the issue" and had left "very open" the question of whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right as opposed to a collective right.

Sir Jeremy Beecham, Labour's leader in local government, said on Friday these plans would mean "chief constables will be forced to spend their time treading on political eggshells rather than doing the job they and the public want them to do.

The change to the political timetable means army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could be elected as head of state within months.

All of that means, the chief justice wrote, that the protesters' speech "cannot be restricted simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt".