Opening the little book the Chairman enquired innocently: "What do you mean by things being 'lively' in Berlin?
Then the Chairman turned to one of his colleagues, and in a despairing voice asked, "Can you suggest a way out of the difficulty?
The proceedings opened with the chairman holding forth in monotone German.
The Chairman evidently considered me to be a match for him in these wrangles because he speedily put the diary down.
Picking up my signed depositions the Chairman proceeded to re-examine me on my defence.
I was made to take up a position some distance from the table and immediately opposite the central figure who was acting as chairman and inquisitor-in-chief.
There was a hurried whispering and then the Chairman commented: "We'll soon prove that you are wrong!
I behaved just as if the Chairman had merely sneezed.
Suddenly the Chairman roared out a terrifying word in the vernacular.
During the proceedings the Chairman made one frantic endeavour to trap me, and to prove that I was more fully conversant with the language, as he confidently believed, than I felt disposed to concede.
On the fifteenth clay of February, the debates concerning the union began in the house of lords, the queen being present, and the bishop of Sarum chairman of the committee.
The Chairman then put the resolution to the meeting and it was carried unanimously.
Later he did a second turn--this time in his capacity as Chairman of the Joint Air Committee.
Mr. HOGGE said that the Chairman in his opening remarks had disregarded one of the most valuable media for spreading the blessed news that England was at her last gasp, throttled by place-hunters and parasites.
In bidding the gathering farewell the Chairman impressed upon them that their rule of life should be a constant and voluble mistrust of our leaders.
On the fifteenth of March the chairman of that committee, Sir Robert Philips, member for Bath, reported that great abuses had been discovered.
He continued, however, to practise the frugality which he had learned when he could scarce spare, as Swift tells us, a shilling to pay the chairman who carried him to Lord Halifax's.
Raffles, chairman of the committee, containing the invitation, was read, and reference was made by Dr.
With chest begirt by leathern bands, The chairman at his corner stands; The poles stuck up against the wall Are ready at a moment's call.
The chairman of the faculty shall appoint for the examination of each school, a committee consisting of the professor of that school, and of two other professors.
The chairman of the faculty, chosen annually by the board of visiters, from amongst the professors, is the real president, and possesses the powers usually granted to the presidents of colleges.
As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he introduced the bill for enlarging the number of judges of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The chairman turned in disorder, and with a dazed stare saw Mr. Lever coming towards them with his lumbering quickness.
The chairman sat in the centre of the line, and the vice-president at the right-hand end of it.
One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
He waschairman of the Anti-Parnellites from the fall of C.
After being introduced by the chairman of the meeting, and seeing that his audience was all attention, he began, holding himself erect, his clear, powerful voice making every part of the building ring.
She had already sent a chairman to his lodgings with a positive command not to return without an answer to her letter.
The maid soon after returned into the room, saying, the chairman desired to know if there was any answer to the letter.
Pretty situation for the General Chairman of the Pickwick Club.
Furthermore, the chairman may call additional meetings in cases of necessity, and he is required to call special meetings when requested by the school board to do so.
The chairman of the municipal council, who also is a member of the board by virtue of his position, is indirectly the choice of the people.
The meetings are conducted by the chairman of the school board.
The chairman of this committee is the superintendent of schools, a school principal, or other member, according to the determination of the board.
The members of the school board select their own chairman and act together as a committee or board.
This committee consists of a member of the school board (chosen by the board), who is chairman of the committee, and three other members.
A poll was then demanded, when the Chairman appointed Mr. J.
The Chairman suggested that it would be better first to resolve that it would be expedient to erect or purchase a building, and then to submit the means for raising the money, in which opinion J.
Chairman of the Board of Directors; Peter Ashcroft, Esq.
Under these circumstances the chairman submitted to the meeting that the proposed plan of feasting the children was a failure from the want of funds.
Norman were respectively electedchairman and vice-chairman, in the place of Mr. C.
Mayor and Chairman of the Board of Guardians) had given a treat to 293 inmates of the Workhouse.
The Chairman conscientiously refused to put this amendment on the ground that it was not a bona fide one, and also the following amendment, which was likewise moved by Mr. W.
Lawn seconded the amendment, but the Chairmanrefused to put it, on the ground that he could not consistently with his duty do so.
The Chairman said the next business was of considerable importance.
It was understood that the Chairman and a majority of the Board of Guardians were favourable to the admission of Reporters to the Board meetings.
Chairman of the Board of Directors; Thomas Marsh Nelson, Esq.
This estimable gentleman had concluded his examination on Tuesday forenoon last before the Parliamentary Committee, and after being highly complimented by the noble Chairman (Lord F.
The Ways and Means Committee, which had been at work for three months, forthwith reported through Chairman Nelson Dingley the bill which bore his name.
In 1880 he was chairman of the Indiana delegation to the Republican National Convention.
The Chairmansaid the motion was to strike out the whole section, and it could not be divided.
He hoped the Chairman of the committee would give them some information on the subject.
The clerk having read the Address, it was again read by the Chairman by paragraphs.
The Chairman again remarked (in reference to what had fallen from Mr. W.
Motley, as the Chairman of the Committee on Education, made, as he thought, a most masterly report.
Mr. Sumner was at the time chairman of the committee on foreign affairs.
Shirley, who, after acting as its chairman for many years, was elected the president, and occupied that position until his death in March 1904.
In the Senate he was not reappointed chairman of the committee on territories.
Then the chairman made the explanation in regard to Pearl's appearance, and asked her to come forward and recite.
If I wanted to abolish the noble institution of marriage I'd make him chairman of the ways and means committee.
The chairman of the finance committee laughed and answered: "That old joke is still alive.
This matter among others was the subject of discussion one July morning when the Republican State Chairman was in the city; Mr. Grunewald expressed anxiety over Mr. Jason's continued silence.
The chairman rapped loudly for order, and a pin could have been heard drop while the result was read: Miss Hamilton .
They will come in two days, and I am positive that Abby Dunbar will try to prevent Margaret's being elected chairman of the executive committee.
Of course, you will be made chairman of the executive committee.
It ended with the election of Hope Brereton, and the "diggers" were not represented at all in the offices, with the exception of Beth, who was made chairman of the executive committee since she was the retiring president.
I want to see Beth elected president, and I want Margaret made chairman of the executive committee.
The chairmanwas an enthusiastic admirer of Margaret, and her voice vibrated triumphantly as she tried to announce in a perfectly calm tone, the result of the voting: Margaret Hamilton .
No reporter was present when Chairman Stone rapped for order.
Across the street, just coming out of a store, was Chairman Jason Stone of the Gridley Board of Education.
If the football crew are making all that row over a mere freshman," thought Chairman Stone, "then young Prescott must be the inventor of the yarn that has made Gridley wonder whether we of the Board are so many 'dead ones.
Oh, I beg your pardon, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen," murmured the reporter.
As the telephone bell jangled Chairman Stone drew the desk instrument toward him, holding the receiver to his ear.
After the session had droned along for three-quarters of an hour, and all routine business had been transacted, Chairman Stone looked about at his fellow Board members.
N-n-not to the best of our knowledge," stammered Chairman Stone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chairman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: administer; chair; director; head; leader; moderator; officiate; preside; principal; speaker
