Sentence examples for the secondment from inspiring English sources

Among the possible suggestions for embedding intelligence personnel was the secondment of operatives into universities.

After a few years, including the secondment of a lifetime to New York, I was craving a more creative role.

She should demand the secondment of the brightest and the best from member states to enable her to do this.

The Ugandan government has dealt a cruel blow to the sector by stopping the secondment of teachers from government schools to non-government-funded community schools.

The secondment – the gifting – of Catherine Cambridge's body to the public sphere is revolting and comprehensive; first her sister Pippa's buttocks, roped in for a global obsession of the most moronic kind; then her own breasts; now the womb.

It states: "It is a condition of the secondment that the secondee ensures to the best of their ability that in the course of their duties for Decc there will be no conflict of interest or perception of such".

While costs must be covered by opposition parties, the secondments can run for the entire parliament.

Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, said the secondments suggested the prince was a "constitutional crisis in waiting".

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) failed to list the secondments received back to that date.

"Companies such as the big six energy firms do not lend their staff to government for nothing – they expect a certain degree of influence, insider knowledge and preferential treatment in return," said Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP, when the secondments were revealed.

Tom Burke, a former head of Friends of the Earth who worked as special adviser to several Conservative ministers, said: "The secondments are pernicious, but the real power is how they shape the discourse through the media – that is where their many lobbyists do their real work.