Sentence examples for then director general from inspiring English sources
The phrase "then director general" is not correct as it lacks context and proper punctuation.
It can be used in a sentence where you are referring to a specific individual who holds the title of director general, typically following a previous statement or clause. Example: "After the meeting, the committee appointed John as the new director general."
Irvine was then director general of Australia's overseas spy agency, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.
In October 1998 it attacked Renato Ruggiero, then director general of the World Trade Organisation.
Clarkson is thought to have originally pitched the idea to George Entwistle, the BBC's then director general, in 2012.
The BBC's decision, made by then director general Mark Thompson, sparked protests and 40,000 complaints to the corporation.
The issue of retransmission fees was raised by the BBC's then director general, Thompson, in his MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2010.
It was taken off the table after the then director general Mark Thompson and the BBC Trust considered resigning in protest.
From 1974-75 he was Senior Air Staff Officer at HQ 11 Group, then Director-General, Organisation, RAF, until 1977, when he returned to Staff College as Commandant.
In 2001 Greg Dyke, then director-general of the BBC, described it as being "hideously white" because 98% of its management was white.
In July 2003, Lee Jong-Wook, then director-general of the World Health Organisation said: "To make people count, we first need to be able to count people".
Officially Kimche was deputy head of the Israeli intelligence and counterterrorism agency, the Mossad, until 1980, then director-general of Israel's foreign ministry for seven years.
Nonetheless, under Pasha, who was then Director-General of Military Operations, the Army had begun for the first time to provide counterinsurgency training to officers and troops headed off to fight in Taliban territory in the country's West.
