Sentence examples for top procurement from inspiring English sources

As if to underline its point, Dell moved its top procurement executive to Hong Kong earlier this year.

Last year, seven people were arrested, including expo's top procurement manager, as part of an alleged bid rigging investigation.

The situation was bad enough that Wal-Mart's top procurement executives were summoned to Bentonville that winter for a dressing down.

When Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin and top procurement officials met Tuesday for a final decision, many observers had said the meeting was largely a formality to accept the Boeing bid.

Ms. Denett did not return a message left at her home on Wednesday with her husband, Paul A. Denett, who was the top procurement official in the White House Office of Management and Budget until he resigned this month.

Last year, the Pentagon canceled a $23 billion deal to lease tankers from Boeing, after the disclosure that the Air Force's top procurement officer, Darleen Druyun, had favored Boeing in contracts before being hired by the company.

David H. Safavian, the top federal procurement official under President George W. Bush, was sentenced to a year in prison for lying about his ties to the lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

In 2004, Senator John McCain scuttled the Air Force's plan to lease Boeing jets when he found that a top Air Force procurement official was angling for a job at the defense contractor.

Stan Solloway, a former top Pentagon procurement official who now heads an association of contractors, said the company "understood the military mind-set" and "did a very good job in the Balkans".

Boeing's former Chief Financial Officer Michael Sears pleaded guilty Monday to illegally hiring a top Air Force procurement officer who has admitted she gave the company preferential treatment on a $23 billion tanker contract.

Those initiatives must be driven by the Indian government, but donor agencies and international partners should continue to lend a hand by creating funding programs that complement government initiatives and focus on diseases of the poor, promoting technology transfer and clarifying the patent landscape for needed products, and articulating their top international procurement priorities.