The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Especially in the whip operation, you're in constant contact with the members and their chiefs of staff, so having a chief who's approachable and reaches out to other chiefs so people know what's going - know what they're looking for in the policy that comes to the House floor - is incredibly important.
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
The Attorney General is the state's chief consumer advocate, fighting to protect the financial security of all Illinoisans.
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.
The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
