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
  • Then it got moved to the directorate that funds science missions instead.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The directorate has now issued over a dozen public advisories since its launch.
    — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 2 July 2020
  • 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
  • The directorate would be launched with $1 billion and grow to $5 billion over 5 years.
    — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 6 Apr. 2021
  • By contrast, other directorates appeared on first glance to have fared better.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • So, Anne, what are the primary areas of focus for your directorate?
    — 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 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
  • These are being combined into four directorates.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
  • 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 what motivated, Anne, the relaunch of the directorate and has its mission changed at all?
    — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Wanna-Nakamura was not the author of the health sciences directorate's memo this time.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Wanna-Nakamura was not the author of the health sciences directorate’s memo this time.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The directorate supports more than a dozen space missions at CU Boulder.
    — Massimo Ruzzene, The Conversation, 8 July 2025
  • In the meantime, the directorate is continuing to request that people stay away from the walrus.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Most of the people let go on Friday were career civil servants working in these directorates.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
  • Ukrainian special forces and the main intelligence directorate in Kyiv were watching with at least one drone.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The competition directorate’s standing as a neutral arbiter may get damaged in the process.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Designed as a check against political Islam, the directorate has become one of its main platforms.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Radio Fresh’s journalists have struggled to obtain press cards, which are now required by a new media directorate.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 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 Saudi civil defense directorate said one person had been killed by shrapnel from the attack, which damaged two houses.
    — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The websites were defaced with anti-Israel material, the directorate said in a tweet.
    — Alisa Odenheimer, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2020
  • Since conception, the directorate has emphasized a need to support community colleges more than the agency has done in the past.
    — Shalin Jyotishi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Notably, as many as half of the shells are duds, according to an official at Ukraine’s intelligence directorate.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Yaqeen, who leads the local women’s affairs directorate, said that electrical service had been cut, restored, and then cut again, and that most cellphone service was down.
    — David Zucchino, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • One day, a member of the directorate approached McMaster after a meeting.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • According to the directorate, the drone can carry a 200-pound warhead and has a range of nearly 600 miles.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026

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