How to Use secretariat in a Sentence

secretariat

noun

• During the meeting, the group’s secretariat gave a gloomy picture of the first quarters of 2019.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• 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
• The money will fund the UN's climate secretariat, which will lose money under Trump.
  — Miranda Green, CNN, 2 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Looming large in the indictment is the London deal approved by the Vatican secretariat of state.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2021
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• His secretariat for the economy, which includes Milone’s office, is being run by underlings for now.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 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
• Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. climate change secretariat in 2009 when a summit in Copenhagen tried and failed to reach a global deal, called for a re-think to allow greener economic growth, especially for poorer nations.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2012
• The upshot is that WHO’s budget says much less about the secretariat’s independent priorities than about state and donor priorities for the agency.
  — Mara Pillinger, Washington Post, 22 June 2017
• 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
• As a Vatican secretariat of state at the time, Viganò advocated that the then-cardinal be penalized.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The secretariat’s office, meanwhile, does valuable work.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 11 July 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 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
• 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
• There’s still no official confirmation but the secretariat is getting ready.
  — Ben Bartenstein, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
• Reaching consensus on what counts as a reduction in emissions, and who should monitor progress, will be delicate, admits Patricia Espinosa, the head of the UN climate secretariat.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• Algeria, which holds the cartel’s rotating presidency, urged the secretariat to convene a panel but the call has failed to gather the majority backing necessary to go ahead.
  — Alex Longley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• Lula is also expected to create a special secretariat dealing with climate change, and there are rumors about a new ministry for Indigenous affairs.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
• Not only does the G7 chair rotate annually but there is also no permanent secretariat.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 June 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024