Example sentences of "of the board of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The second quote is from a member of the board of directors of the Highlander Research and Education Center during a board meeting which I attended in May 1986 : —
2 ‘ Jonathan Holland , our senior member of the board of directors , has announced his impending retirement , , he said .
3 And so the House of Industry became the workhouse for the whole union ; it remained the property of the Board of Directors , who let the building and the front garden to the Poor Law Guardians for £280 per annum .
4 Faith is very often placed either in institutional investors or in redefining the role of the board of directors as that of monitoring executive management .
5 The subsidiary company is not allowed to acquire shares in the holding company and no person may be a member of the board of directors of both companies .
6 Parliament also appoints a managing director for five years , and neither the managing director nor any other member of the executive of the organization is allowed to be engaged in business or become a member of the board of directors of any company .
7 Finally , it is therefore the more difficult to see how the proposals can have anything to do with genuine industrial democracy , that is to say , with the accountability of the board of directors as a corporate whole to the individual men and women who constitute the workforce and who would have the ultimate power to replace an unsatisfactory board .
8 The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud .
9 In favour of a person dealing with a company in good faith , the power of the board of directors to bind the company or to authorize others to do so is deemed to be free from any limitations under the company 's constitution ( i.e. memorandum of association ) .
10 Being head of the Board of Directors , as well as a major stockholder in said company , your female progenitor has complete control over mission profile and personnel . ’
11 We may in such circumstances act on the instructions of the Board of Directors , provided we are sure they are mandated to act .
12 The two men were prosecuted in connection with the fraudulent bankruptcy of a finance company , Trans K-B , of which Kopp was president of the board of directors .
13 SIGNED by us , two directors of the covenantor or a director and the secretary of the covenantor pursuant to a resolution of the board of directors and in accordance with the covenantor 's Articles of Association :
14 As a consequence , fiduciary duties continue to apply to the directors of a company and to 'shadow " directors ( persons whose instructions or directions often determine the decision of the board of directors ) .
15 These provide for the constitution of the board of directors of the company and the decision-making process ; the right to appoint a non-executive director ; negative pledges in favour of the investing institutions ; the flow of regular financial management information to the investors ; the giving of warranties by the management team and Newco ; and the granting of restrictive covenants .
16 Maybe the chief executive officer or some member of the board of directors had reason to doubt the standing procedures for reviewing design and failed to improve them .
17 She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads …
18 In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law .
19 He also helped shape the community as chairman of the board of surveyors , lighting inspector , poor-law guardian , and justice of the peace .
20 It was also the meeting place of the Board of Guardians , whose duty it was to look after the poor , and the Patrington Union which was responsible for 27 parishes .
21 In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties .
22 There was a big turnout at a meeting of the Board of Guardians , which included the Poor Law Commissioner , to consider the matter .
23 He was in active practice for twenty-five years , and was elected chairman of the Board of Guardians in 1837 , serving for forty-eight years .
24 The guardians applied , unsuccessfully , to the Public Works Loan Board and it was left to a sub-committee , consisting of the chairman of the Finance Committee , the chairman of the Board of Guardians ( W. T. Lansberry ) and the clerk to arrange the loan elsewhere .
25 For example , in September 1919 , in its account of a meeting of the Board of Guardians , the Bedfordshire Times reported that a member had complained of what he referred to as ‘ an appalling increase of rates ’ .
26 A choir sang Christmas hymns in the various wards , and twelve members of the Board of Guardians assisted with the serving of dinner .
27 A resolution from Biggleswade , that the transference of the functions of the Board of Guardians to the County Councils would be detrimental to the poor and to the ratepayers , was strongly supported , as was another from elsewhere ; the newly elected government was to be asked to postpone the operation of the Local Government Act of 1929 .
28 The last meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Bedford Union was held on 29th March 1930 .
29 The effects of the error were not rectified until 1888 , when the Commissioners agreed that the vacant appointment should be filled by a nominee from " the Magistrates for Lancashire meeting at Manchester and qualified as ex officio Poor Law Guardians of the Board of Guardians for the Union of Stockport . "
30 For example , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for St Giles in East London considered that widows must be held in part responsible for their own condition : ‘ After the lapse of a certain number of years , when a widow has had the opportunity of showing providence on her own account , I think you may separate her from her late husband , but not immediately after his death ’ .
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