Example sentences of "who heads the " in BNC.
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1 | Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul . |
2 | JAKARTA ( Reuter ) — Indonesia 's President Suharto , who heads the world 's largest Muslim nation , told his country 's five million Catholics to give a modest welcome to the Pope next week . |
3 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
4 | In the former , the opposition is badly split between followers of Mr Ramakrishna Hegde , the charismatic former chief minister who heads the challenge for Janata Dal , and anti-Hegde dissidents . |
5 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
6 | Mrs Chamorro , who heads the recently formed 14-party National Opposition Union ( UNO ) , held talks with the US Vice-President , Mr Dan Quayle , in Washington yesterday after meeting President Bush and other Administration officials , who have already pledged $9 million to the election process . |
7 | RONALD PERELMAN , the former corporate raider who heads the Revlon cosmetics empire , is being tipped to take a significant stake in Shearson Lehman , Wall Street 's second largest broking firm . |
8 | Ronald Perelman , the former corporate raider who heads the Revlon cosmetics empire , is being tipped to take a significant stake in Shearson Lehman , Wall Street 's second largest broking firm . |
9 | THE KEY company in Australian tycoon Alan Bond 's crumbling empire was yesterday threatened with receivership by a rival entrepreneur , John Spalvins , who heads the Adelaide Steamship group . |
10 | Mr Spalvins , who heads the Adelaide Steamship group which holds a 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , called off his legal action to appoint a receiver to the company . |
11 | Meinhard Miegel , once a Christian Democratic politician , who heads the Institut für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ( Institute for Economics and Society ) in Bonn , could think of no influential German think-tank — even the one run by Greens — that did not accept the basic tenets of the social market . |
12 | Most of the fighters follow the Iraqi Shia leader , Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim , who heads the coalition called the Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq . |
13 | Twin Oaks , who heads the weights , was the fancy of many for Aintree glory as he continued a brilliant sequence of handicap wins at Haydock Park . |
14 | There has been tension , too , in Central Office about the ‘ omnipresent ’ Sarah Hogg , who heads the policy unit . |
15 | Patrick Dunne , who heads the management buy-in unit , says research indicates a new wave of buy-in activity and the likelihood of an increase in the success rate . |
16 | ‘ This allows us to keep a check on who is moving around in the middle of the night , ’ said Sergeant John Bishop who heads the computer operation . |
17 | Dr Kalim Siddiqui , who heads the self-styled Moslem parliament in Britain , said : ‘ We must not fight over issues in the sub-continent . ’ |
18 | The fighting dimmed hopes of peace , but Lord Carrington , the former British foreign secretary who heads the EC peace talks , said he would take a tough line with the Serbian and Croatian military leaders . |
19 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
20 | Since returning from New Zealand the Irish squad has been working on fitness programmes under the guidance of Dr. John Kirwan , who heads the national training centre at Thomond College in Limerick . |
21 | But the previous day , when the same question was asked of Robert Rubin , who heads the National Economic Council in the White House , a rather different answer was given . |
22 | Peter Vallone , who heads the 50 Democrats ( out of 51 members ) on the city council , regrets that so few New Yorkers appear to appreciate the significance of a change in City Hall 's procedures since 1989 : committees of the council , says Mr Vallone , have brought new muscle to bear in the monitoring of mayoral agencies ' budgets . |
23 | Ethan Nadelmann , a drugs expert who heads the Princeton Working Group , which is developing alternative ideas to prohibition , notes that legalisation of drugs was given a serious hearing . |
24 | According to Dr Peter Pratt , who heads the trust 's community health directorate , the unit is particularly well set up to respond to the increasing emphasis on non-hospital care in the NHS . |
25 | ‘ The team had a very successful year in 1992 , and is expecting an even better performance this year , despite the recession , ’ reports Dick Evans , who heads the European commercial team . |
26 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
27 | Lane , who heads the Cup table with more than 303,000 points , shot a six under par 66 for a three round aggregate 202 , and second place — two shots behind Argentinian Jose Coceres , who is 16 under par . |
28 | In practice most powers are delegated to the Official Secretary , who heads the Office of Tokelau Affairs . |
29 | Liberal supplies of Iraqi weapons are said to have given General Michel Aoun , who heads the Maronite administration in Lebanon , the confidence to challenge Syrian authority in his country . |
30 | There 's a team of people who are specially keeping abreast of the technology and they are by Paul who heads the erm network operations . |