"official" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Evidence has emerged that high officials at the agency overruled their professional staff and ignored expert advisory committees when they rejected the application.
- A top federal medical official overruled the unanimous opinion of his scientific staff when he decided last year to approve a pacemaker-like device to treat persistent depression, a Senate committee reported Thursday.
- Senior officials oversaw negotiations, made judgments on arcane questions of contracting procedures and ultimately overruled their own staff's recommendations on whom to select.
- Two other officials overruled him.
- Arrest warrants made public yesterday said the six officials overruled the advice of the pension plan's actuary and voted to let the city postpone contributions to the fund.
- The case was closed after officials at the I.R.S. headquarters in Washington overruled the district office.
- Thus these elected officials overruled their own appointees, appointees who were charged specifically with carrying out the rebuilding.
- The United Nations then got itself in a muddle, with its military commander in Bosnia calling for NATO air strikes against Serbian positions and its top civilian official here overruling him.
- Blair revealed that the desire for match referees to carry out inspections stemmed from recent experiences when local referees had declared pitches playable before the designated official overruled them later.
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