placeman

"None will say as yet, Placeman," the gruff voice answered.

That is to say, he is an American placeman.

The judge appointed as lawyer John Chambers, who was a placeman of the governor.

"Well, what then have you planned for our visitors from the Empire, Placeman Zodekk?"

"All right, Placeman," the Prefect's voice said with an ill-concealed accent of boredom.

He was staller (a placeman or court office-holder) to King Cnut the Great.

Michael Placeman, a Parkinson's patient in Brussels, was 46 when he was forced to resign as a bank officer.

Placeman Broderick discharged his pistol with untempered passion, missing and leaving himself open to Terry's return shot.

Mr Yanukovych has worked hard to distance himself from the scandals of the pre-2004 period and from accusations of being Russia's placeman.

When Crespo was killed, Venezuela entered a period of uncertainty as Andrade was not himself a caudillo and he was Crespo's placeman.

As a career bureaucrat, Alkhanov had no obvious popular base and was seen by many observers as the placeman of the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Season 2 elimination results had winner and future third placeman John Heffron staying in and Kathleen Madigan and Jay London eliminated.

Budgen was described in the Commons by one former minister as being "worth ten placeman" and by the Daily Telegraph as the "late, great Nicholas Budgen".

Faisal Krekshi, a Belfast-trained gynaecologist who helped co-ordinate clandestine preparations for the Tripoli uprising, has been appointed acting president instead of the old regime placeman awaiting investigation.

The French Constitution says that to preserve the national representation from being corrupt, no member of the National Assembly shall be an officer of the government, a placeman or a pensioner.

Mr. Placeman says he now drives his car on short trips, plays table tennis and is considering going back to work, but at a job less stressful than his former one at the bank.

We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman.

By then, however, Patrick has been informed, by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything, that smelly Simon, though he may be obnoxious, is not Jewish.

Yea let's design and put in a placeman we'll be so clever it will take six months to pick a leader and we'll set that leader up for the constant fratricide jokes by the opposition.

He entered Parliament in 1701 as member for Morpeth, elected as a placeman on the Earl of Carlisle's interest to support the Court Whigs, and subsequently (1705) also represented Wigan.

The book relates the attempt by the opposition party (the PRD) to install a (democratically-elected) 'rebel' governor, Avendano, in place of Rosas, the placeman of the central government, and representative of the dominant PRI party.

The Government has been promising accountability, transparency, and improvement on Atos/ESA for the last 3 years, and look where that has got us - 300,000 appeals and a discredited placeman called Harrington periodically wheeling out a whitewash to impress the media.

Despite his polite cordiality with a Northeastern Establishment placeman, name of David Broderick, Justice Terry let known his concerns that the placeman had engineered his loss for re-election in the 1859 state elections by wielding influence and finances of the Northeastern Establishment.