Sentence examples for when director general from inspiring English sources

When director general Tony Hall and the then director of BBC television Danny Cohen unveiled plans for the service, they referred to Vice as being the service they aspired it to be.

Asked if he saw similarities with the BBC last June - when director general Greg Dyke refused to concede that Andrew Gilligan had got any of his Today programme report on the government and the Iraq intelligence dossier wrong - Morgan said: "With great respect, we ain't the BBC and I ain't Greg Dyke.

A career television executive and popular leader, when director-general of the BBC he successfully slashed administration costs before his controversial departure after the Hutton Inquiry in 2004.

When Director-General Margaret Chan wants to talk to Nigeria, she is speaking to the minister of health or that person's designated spokesperson.

Hall is due to take up his post in early March 2013 when acting director general Tim Davie steps down.

And its hostility towards outsiders was underlined when the director general, Greg Dyke, remarked that he wasn't in the business of making money for independents.

When Sue Biggs, director general of the Royal Horticultural Society, had breast cancer last year, it was the life-affirming beauty of plants in her garden which helped her pull through.

When the director general of the Institute of Directors, no less, describes Sports Direct as "a scar" on British business, it is time for the company's advisers to take stock.

For the United States, the crisis peaked between 1975 and 1987 when, as director general, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal politicized Unesco, notably by promoting a "new world information order" -- something Western governments viewed as a move to crush press freedom.

But his exasperation at BBC shake-ups became public in 2003, when the director general Greg Dyke launched his Making It Happen reforms with its rallying call to "cut the crap and make it happen".

As recently as last Thursday, when the director general of the agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, visited Tehran, he insisted on detailed answers during a private meeting, diplomats briefed on the meeting said.