How to Use directorate in a Sentence

directorate

noun
  • For the directorate, this means that their warnings aren’t enough.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The directorate would be launched with $1 billion and grow to $5 billion over 5 years.
    Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 6 Apr. 2021
  • This is an agency that has done great things, and his Science directorate wants to live up to that legacy.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 June 2019
  • Then it got moved to the directorate that funds science missions instead.
    Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The atmosphere at the directorate is more sterile than a U.S. gun store or pawnshop.
    Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
  • So what motivated, Anne, the relaunch of the directorate and has its mission changed at all?
    CBS News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • This prompted the directorate to make the decision to put her down, leaving many across the country enraged.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The directorate previously raided Newsclick’s premises and the homes of some of its senior staff in 2021.
    WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The shooting took place at a warehouse rented by the research directorate to store supplies and equipment.
    Robert Burns and Michael Kunzelman, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Wanna-Nakamura was not the author of the health sciences directorate’s memo this time.
    Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Wanna-Nakamura was not the author of the health sciences directorate's memo this time.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Among its other recent orders, the directorate made a no-homework rule for the youngest children and put weight limits on school bags.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • So, Anne, what are the primary areas of focus for your directorate?
    CBS News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The directorate has now issued over a dozen public advisories since its launch.
    Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 2 July 2020
  • In the meantime, the directorate is continuing to request that people stay away from the walrus.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
  • According to a statement today from Israel's directorate in charge of abductees, 31 of the hostages are believed to be dead.
    Marin Scott, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But in March 2023, a final message on the reserve’s website said that a new Russian directorate had been installed.
    Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • Salem Abdan, the head of Idlib’s health directorate, said in a text message that at least 13 people had been killed, including three children.
    Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
  • That growth helps soften the blows to NSF’s six traditional research directorates in the 2021 request.
    Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The ban was issued last week by the Kabul education directorate in the form of a letter and the criticism was almost instant.
    Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The two sides will have to hammer out their competing visions for the National Science Foundation and the new tech directorate.
    CBS News, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The opposition's health directorate in the area said at least nine trucks left Ghouta with their cargo still to be unloaded.
    Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The architects of the Senate bill want to channel a lot of its resources toward the creation of a new directorate for technology research at NSF.
    Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 May 2021
  • Still, the response has been positive from soldiers with a choice between the hot weather uniforms or the standard type, said Al Adams, who leads the directorate’s soldier clothing team.
    Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The websites were defaced with anti-Israel material, the directorate said in a tweet.
    Alisa Odenheimer, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2020
  • In recent months, the directorate’s Twitter account has become some of the most titillating reading in Kenya.
    Max Bearak, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The competition directorate’s standing as a neutral arbiter may get damaged in the process.
    The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But by then the directorate had been dismantled by the Trump administration.
    Emily Baumgaertner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the funding level for NASA's science mission directorate has dropped.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 July 2024
  • An autopsy was being performed Monday, the fisheries directorate said.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2024

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