director-general

• “WADA director-general David Howman says any positive test containing only trace amounts of a banned substance should still be taken seriously.”

  The Huffington Post: Alberto Contador Insists He Did No Wrong

• “Roger Webb, the acting director-general of the Switzerland-based International Hockey Federation, said the decision to introduce artificial turf to hockey was "almost accidental.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Hockey Player India Could Use

• “And just last week, speaking at a TED conference in Long Beach, Al Jazeera's director-general, Wadah Kanfar, was enthusiastically applauded by some 1500 Americans for his network's role in overthrowing corrupt Arab regimes.”

  The Huffington Post: Marty Kaplan: Al Jazeera English vs. The Charlie Sheen Channel

• “In 2003, the director-general of the prison service described it as the worst prison in Britain and most of the teenagers were withdrawn.”

  The Guardian: Huge increase in use of force at privately run young offender institution

• “Even if the country runs a deficit in January, that wouldn't mean the trend has turned around, Kim Young-bae, director-general of the BOK's economic statistics department, said at a media briefing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: South Korea Current Account Falls

• “The whole image of the sector and the price that consumers wanted to pay for the product dropped," says Carlos Palomar , director-general of the Asociación Empresarial para la Protección de la Plantas, a national plant-protection agency, which works with farmers to combat the problem.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fake Pesticides Are A Growing Danger

• “The current international emergency-response framework needs to be reassessed," Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Monday at a news conference after an extraordinary meeting of the agency's 35-nation board of governors.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.N. Agency Calls for Safety Review

• “Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, says that the current outbreak of flu in Mexico has "pandemic potential".”

  "Pandemic potential" for Mexican flu outbreak

• “We no longer have either the freedom or the resources to do our work, said Ménard, the centre's director-general and founder of Reporters Without Borders.”

  Global Voices in English » Qatar: Media Freedom Centre Head Resignation Mourned and Celebrated

• “The BOK's 2012 growth forecast cannot be viewed as conservative as there is a chance that the growth outlook can be revised down, Lee Sang-woo, director-general at the BOK's research department, said at a media briefing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: BOK Cuts Growth Forecasts, Expects Inflation to Ease

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