Sentence examples for top of affairs from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, in keeping with her plan to use technology to keep on top of affairs of state as much as possible, she sought to run a State House meeting of her advisory Governor's Council by speakerphone.

Well, my thorough and scientific survey with approximately four (OK, exactly three) people – Guardian employees, no less, though too young to have been alive in 1965 and, if they were around in 1974, not yet on top of current affairs, even sensational scandals – reveals that the under 50s know very little about it.

Blumenthal's love affair with her BlackBerry began about a year and a half ago, when she bought it to be able to stay on top of client affairs at all times, but it quickly spiraled out of control.

In a carefully-choreographed appearance to project an image of being on top of government affairs, a smiling Chavez imparted numerous instructions and signed a raft of approvals for funds to be released for government projects.

"The kingdom rejects any intervention by any side in Arab internal affairs, and on top of it the affairs of the Palestinian people, who alone have the right to choose their leadership," the crown prince, the kingdom's de facto ruler, told the visiting Spanish defense minister, according to another Saudi official who spoke to The Associated Press.

If you don't want to end up on the wrong side of history, then it is time to put this at the top of your public affairs agenda, he says.

She was also able to demonstrate that the reddest males were indeed the choosiest about who got to do the laying, and that they did prefer bigger females.This state of affairs, where top-quality males become almost as picky as top-quality females, should be expected to develop in any species where the males are involved in bringing up baby as well as creating it.

Shareholders – the folks in a position to push for this to happen – don't seem to put altering this state of affairs at the top of their wish lists.

4.29pm BST 4.25pm: Movistar's Spanish rider Benat Intxausti takes over in the Maglia Rosa of race-leader, while Brad Wiggins drops out of the top 10 on GC, a state of affairs he may rectify in tomorrow's time trial.

The sad state of affairs at the top is a stark sign that gender equality is still more dream than norm.

There I was, in my mid-twenties, a graduate of one of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges, Hamilton College, as well as one of its top public affairs masters programs, yet a basic state ID was inaccessible to me.