Sentence examples for powerful staff from inspiring English sources

Powerful staff unions will fight tooth-and-nail against procedures to sack corrupt officials and to punish incompetent ones.

At the academy, the tough streak figured in a collision with Mikel Gordon, a powerful staff member who, as associate executive administrator, had worked closely with Mr. Davis and Ric Robertson, the chief operating officer.

Other powerful staff members, including Thomas A. Farley, the health commissioner; Raymond W. Kelly, the police commissioner; and Salvatore J. Cassano, the head of the Fire Department, are also likely to remain, aides said.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve Board on Monday named William B. English director of its division of monetary affairs, one of the most powerful staff positions at the central bank.

Under that treaty, the new European president of the council of national leaders, Herman Van Rompuy, an economist and former Belgian prime minister, has moved more quickly than others to establish a powerful staff.

Variety's decision to cut Mr. McCarthy and other staff members sent a shock through Hollywood, which has long held special regard for the trade paper's powerful staff critics, who often get the first word on a new movie.

But behind all great – and not-so-great – leaders are powerful backroom staff, MPs and peers who are desperately trying to steer their parties to victory.

And in May, they mastered Manuel's formula, losing players but winning games behind a powerful pitching staff and enough of everything else.

"I don't recognize the caricature of the powerful Fed staff members, the barons, who dictate policy to board members," he said.

Western business schools, supported by powerful marketing staff members who fly across the globe, pitching as well as coordinating programs with their emerging market clients, find the looming potential alluring.

"People on the left hear Bush discuss things in such simple ways, and yet carry off what seem to be diabolical plots so effortlessly, that they can't believe it's really him," said David R. Gergen, the communications director to another president, Ronald Reagan, who was perceived by his critics to be manipulated by a powerful White House staff.