How to Use secretariat in a Sentence

secretariat

noun
  • Half the 180 senior leaders in its secretariat were women at the start of this year, up from a third three years ago.
    — The Economist, 18 June 2020
  • The Asean secretariat didn’t respond to a request to comment.
    — Ben Otto, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • But maybe smarts aren’t necessarily enough in this role, given that her secretariat is currently in blazes.
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
  • During the meeting, the group’s secretariat gave a gloomy picture of the first quarters of 2019.
    — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • At least three people were killed in the clash, two of whom were civilians, according to the state’s public security secretariat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Velasco, a millennial who came of age in the digital era, is among the youngest officials to head the secretariat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • His secretariat for the economy, which includes Milone’s office, is being run by underlings for now.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Unijapan also serves as the secretariat for bilateral co-production treaties through the platform.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Looming large in the indictment is the London deal approved by the Vatican secretariat of state.
    — Fox News, 27 July 2021
  • Staff from Healey’s housing secretariat held a call Friday evening with shelter providers to reassure them that plans are in the works, said two people who were on the call.
    — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Burson-Marsteller tells us that the transparency register secretariat omitted to mention that this was the result of a complaint.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 5 June 2013
  • Civil servants attached to the local government secretariat now work under an acacia tree just outside the ruins of their former offices.
    — Nelly Ating, CNN, 29 June 2017
  • Hundreds of protestors jeered Netanyahu from the street outside the UN secretariat.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Aides to her office and the various Executive Branch secretariats packed the pressroom, where windows were opened to let cold outdoor air in.
    — State House News Service, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • On November 24th, when Santos and the secretariat signed the new peace accord, Lozada wore his new jacket and tie.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The funds have come under scrutiny amid a financial scandal about how those donations were invested by the Vatican's secretariat of state.
    — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • As a Vatican secretariat of state at the time, Viganò advocated that the then-cardinal be penalized.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2018
  • What it's meant is that there's had to be a lot more focus, not just from the OECD secretariat, but from some of the larger countries involved on getting other countries on board.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The secretariat of state in 2018 decided to buy the building outright while working with British authorities to nab the middlemen.
    — Nicole Winfield, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
  • In the Vatican, Pell's job as secretariat of the economy is so crucial that it has been described as the second-most-powerful role in Rome, after only the pope.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 June 2017
  • The health secretariat of the Federal District, which includes Brasilia, said in a statement that all of the infected people were isolated in a hotel.
    — Mauricio Savarese, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2021
  • In February, after his conviction became public, the Church confirmed that his position as the prefect of its secretariat for the economy had not been renewed.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Social media users said that a gang of men was staging another bank robbery, and the public security secretariat of Pará confirmed on Twitter that it had been notified of a robbery in progress.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The rotating presidency exists to preserve continuity and engagement of its members, especially as each member must provide a full secretariat and set the agenda and plan for the year of its hosting.
    — Hannah Ryder, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Temer downgraded the Ministry of Culture to a sub-secretariat under the presidential office, stripping it of autonomy and budget.
    — Caio Delcolli, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Tedros said that while in the past, independent evaluation commissions set up by the WHO have used the agency’s staff as support, this group should have its own independent secretariat.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 July 2020
  • But Pell, who denies the charges, remains a cardinal, head of the Vatican’s economy secretariat and a member of Francis’ core group of nine cardinal advisers.
    — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
  • Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charity organization of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, stepped in to fill that gap and keep the secretariat operating.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 8 Jan. 2026
  • They were believed to be the first at the secretariat of state, which coordinates the activities of the Holy See, functions as the seat of governance of the universal Catholic Church and oversees diplomatic relations with more than 180 nations.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In a statement, the secretariat of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said war and military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, would end permanently starting on Monday night.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 15 June 2026

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