Sentence examples for they were directors from inspiring English sources

In Athens, playwrights were not only dramatists like Aeschylus or Euripides; they were directors and musicians, too.

But they were directors who liked long takes and lovely, flowing dance numbers, which Mamoulian didn't do in his early days.

It would be little surprise if the new Bush economic team, even if headed by a former Greenspan colleague Paul O'Neill - they were directors together at Alcoa back in the 1980s - will be among the "danger in delay" camp.

At Disney he was regarded as the high-culture counterweight to Snow White and Mickey Mouse: a European import who had worked with Rudolf Nureyev when they were directors of the Paris Opera Ballet and with the composer John Cage when he was head of the music festival of La Ste.-Baume Ste.-Baume

"Whether they were directors or writers or characters onscreen, we're simply not seeing as many women get to the top of their field as men, and we felt that it was our duty to address that," said Julie Menin, the commissioner of the office.

Wilson and Pearse insist that they saw boards transformed overnight from supplicants to independents when the roles were separated at companies where they were directors.

They said they were director-centered producers.

An earlier version said Eduard and Jordi Mayoral founded their gallery in Barcelona seven years ago; they are directors of the gallery, which was founded by their father in 1989.

Sir Win agrees there has been a lack of punishment for some of the worst offenders in recent scandals, whether they are directors at Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS or those involved in the Libor benchmarking scandal.

(GP7) "We do not have a good relationship with social workers, and our entire relationship with social work historically has been bad because they're all changing such that they are directors to service rather than providers of services, the problems is there is no service… not in this village or area".

(There's a very precise and simple definition for such movies: they're director-centered).