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    1. Today – when a member of your staff asked me what I thought of you


    2. Maybe Tatania would have one of her ‘treats’ in the way of staff for the evening


    3. Most of the yachts below were garden floats, fancy entertaining rooms on the water, most had upper floors with lavish trysting suites and rooms below decks for serving staff and crew


    4. The kitchen could keep a staff of four busy and the table sat twenty


    5. Athnu was the only full time domestic staff, but he was very full time


    6. His men took the kargirs and tended them, more of his staff served lunch on a patio


    7. If the welcome for project staff and accompanying officials is anything to go by, there is already a deep sense of appreciation


    8. ‘No, but there is no denying that a lot of employers dislike taking on staff who are older and more experienced than they are


    9. "No, they kept it in front of them with some heroic work from the laser staff, but they were adrift while it happened and doing


    10. I suppose he is naturally careful what he says – comes of being a lawyer, I expect – the agency did mention that the company has a high turnover of staff though which is worrying

    11. ‘I’ve heard that company isn’t hot on staff welfare


    12. "I'm sorry about the chief engineer, but we have several of his senior staff


    13. He chief my staff


    14. Very friendly staff and great food


    15. Most of the day staff passed Ted ‘Bugle Boy’ Williams, on their way into the building and noticed nothing unusual


    16. ’ He said throwing me a quick smile as he turns into the school gates and parks in the staff area


    17. What with the school Christmas dinner and then the staff meal, I’ve had my fill


    18. The scheduling the staff of this place alone is a nightmare!" As they leave, I stand to embrace Apollo, but he surprises me yet again


    19. Afternoonday was just beginning, the sun was more than halfway across the sky and his native staff were bustling about in the kitchen


    20. His staff was happy with the style and got into it, especially when they found there were good wages involved so there were now some creative artists turning out some really beautiful saddles using some of the exotic plumes that come from the tails of many species of local animals

    21. Despite the fact that everyone she’d spoken to played down the seriousness of the attack, Kara had worked out, by dint of garnering minute details from every staff member in the hospital she had come in contact with … as well as picking Angie’s brains and prising information out of the policeman … that she’d been extremely lucky to survive


    22. Please can you contact Renald – and DO NOT TRUST ANYONE ELSE AT ALL – least of all his staff, and find out what he wants me to do, if anything


    23. walked out calling after the clerical staff, when they


    24. Debi along with the signatures of the entire staff in it


    25. My department had to take on two new staff last week to cope with the increased volume of administration


    26. ’ She said quickly – a little too quickly ‘But it does suggest that perhaps one of my staff here might have overheard something and passed it on


    27. I watch as she leaves the room, wondering if she has been looking through my stuff and aware in the same thought that I now see the staff here at the villa in a totally different light


    28. Once the meal has reached the stage where we no longer need assistance from the staff, Wiesse turns the conversation to the coming journey


    29. The Rider of the White is in possession of the Staff of Light


    30. Social services raised the alarm when one of their staff went missing, but no one considered it possible that two small children might have something to say on the matter

    31. 'That was taken by English Staff Sergeant in the war


    32. The White confirmed it by handing Collin the Staff of Light


    33. Collin let loose another blast from the Staff of Light and 20 more of them fell as they tried to fly away


    34. With the Staff of Light in his hand, Collin yelled at him, “For Becky and Jared - die you monster!” He shot out a beam from the Staff of Light and it tore thru the blacks wing


    35. He attempted to flame the Queen and Kate before they could get away, and was answered with the Staff of Light


    36. The White reared back and let loose with a blast of flame in unison with a shot from the Staff of Light at the exact same time


    37. The great bank’s chairman was ready to fire the maid for causing so much confusion and embarrassment, but his wife had extensive experience in the realm of hotels and subterfuge, and she persuaded him to go to work and that she would sort things out with the domestic staff


    38. You'd find them settled at the staff table like a bunch of new kids in school watching the faces and everything going on


    39. James, the Fire Staff you carry, how does it work? Jackson asked him


    40. Then he was surrounded and the Staff of Fire flamed again

    41. Daowyn was a quick and mighty fighter and he soon learned the power of the Staff of Fire as he and James brought down many of the filthy beasts


    42. James pulled out the Staff of Fire and yelled over his shoulder, “Hold tightly my lady


    43. There’d been a vase of beautiful flowers on my desk on Monday – a present from the teaching staff which very nearly set the tears off again


    44. Every single member of staff made a point of coming into the office to say something and many of the parents did too


    45. The staff room is packed as usual


    46. The phone in the staff room rings and Julie, one of the teachers, who happens to be nearest it, picks it up


    47. ” the Staff of Office rang loud as she stomped the floor


    48. Old Ted was told to make enquiries of the politician’s kitchen staff to find out where these plums were cultivated


    49. ” The Queen struck the Staff of Office twice signaling the meeting was over


    50. He had a few bright engineers on his staff, including Alan, who was still under sentence and probably couldn't be trusted with sensitive data














































    1. We feel that the dangers we may encounter because we’re not properly equipped for this study outweigh the benefits of learning sooner what a better equipped and staffed mission will learn in their own time


    2. Our church is already planning another expedition, and that expedition will be staffed to begin conversions and equipped to let people see the real glories that await them here, in the better life of the Afterlife, in the Christial Church


    3. How could a three inch fish be more important than those people? The EPA must be staffed by a bunch


    4. I noticed the barman from lunchtime was no longer there; instead the bar was staffed by a couple of harassed looking girls, doing their best to serve the drinks, take meal orders and chat with the few customers who were propping up the bar


    5. I used my powers of persuasion and proclivity for bullshit to get seated in the section staffed by the waitress who served the band


    6. It is staffed with volunteers who help


    7. How could a three inch fish be more important than those people? The EPA must be staffed by a bunch of nuts


    8. NavSea legal (OOL) had already staffed a three to four lawyer claims office at Blue Lake Manor, a six-acre, federally owned reservation in the city of Pascagoula which had a combination BO/BEQ as well as the O club and some office space


    9. which Giroux staffed with one of his younger buyers


    10. should be disbanded and staffed with non-political figures—persons who will honestly judge the cases before them

    11. Soon the illegal market for roses is staffed by violent criminals


    12. Our family chartered a private plane staffed by a nurse to fly him from Ithaca to the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, while we followed in another plane


    13. diagnosis and research as well as an “Ask the Expert” section staffed by


    14. National NLUS President Fanning credited the Coast Guard with being the primary federal agency for maritime law enforcement and security, and said the naval service was chronically under staffed and underfunded, given its responsibility over “25,000 miles of coastline to patrol, 350 ports,” and thousands of “foreign flag ships, many of them carrying hazardous materials,” some of which come ”from countries identified by the U


    15. The Head Quarters for the Special Forces staff was a set of small adjoining offices that were constantly staffed and busy


    16. It felt as large as an entire deck of the Nighthawk, and it was staffed by more than twenty officers attending to seemingly countless stations, whose functions he could only guess at


    17. Most had left the night before leaving the facility staffed by the next layer of managers and supervisors who were deliberately kept out of any knowledge of the illegal operations


    18. markets staffed by three monitors with the power to


    19. to well organized markets staffed by three monitors


    20. Except for Juneau, Ketchikan and a few other larger communities, the clinics in the villages did not have a physician and were staffed by health aides who were well trained by SEARHC, but had limited obstetrical or gynecological knowledge and skills

    21. It is staffed by Mexican doctors who have to complete two years of duty in underserved areas and by a number of volunteers from different countries and sponsored by different non-government organizations (NGOs) such as the DOW that sponsored me


    22. agent staffed the customs station since Switzerland had


    23. They therefore staffed a unit themselves, or alternately used very expensive talent to replace paper, order and install new software and hardware, and repair broken servers


    24. As they were short staffed, an officer should be sent with all the information, and office space and equipment would be provided as necessary


    25. The hotline is staffed by trained counselors and callers are routed to the crisis clinic nearest their location


    26. It was the Presentation Convent school for girls that was staffed by both Nuns and lay teachers


    27. The Brotherhood house was well run and totally staffed by


    28. Nicola's sister is also a nurse, usually she only worked in the day but Nicola knew at times she was called in, especially when they were short staffed


    29. elsewhere had produced, over the years, a very large, very well staffed and ex-


    30. Properly staffed the destroyer holds nine

    31. By the end of the first year, the Defense force had fifty fully armed, fully staffed short hyper jump capable P I ships on active duty in patrol rotation


    32. The Albert Schweitzer, fully staffed and fully equipped, headed out on its first mission


    33. It was not hard to picture him coming to the conclusion that a big ship staffed only with civilians would be easy pickings for an aggressive boarding party


    34. Moses had staffed as many of the laser pods as he could, but there were still some left empty


    35. In the light of the fires from the burning aircraft, Saul could see well staffed gun emplacements and armored vehicles around the building that they had identified as the prison where the Marines were being held


    36. She’d been working the entire day and couldn’t get time off because they were short staffed


    37. Perhaps the Department was short staffed at this particular time


    38. Many of the hackers who staffed the AI Lab boasted similar, in-


    39. There is another dome, here, that I think is also an ag center and should be staffed with boys and men too young to go to battle


    40. The agricultural area was staffed by young men and boys

    41. kitchen would be staffed twenty-four hours a day from that


    42. I believe that there is a very active disinformation service in place out there that is staffed by rogue intelligence operators in the US in support of the Corporatocracy, and is continuing operation on the Kennedy cover-up and witness discouragement programs


    43. a fully staffed consulate there


    44. familiar customers and is staffed by people well acquainted with the market


    45. The business was staffed by very experienced


    46. This additional capability may need to be built and staffed in advance of the


    47. City Center itself was staffed 24/7 with armed guards and military personnel


    48. Clashes with BJP workers, detentions and acts of stoning had met him in Gujarat, where armed with a notepad he was seen jotting down the number of dysfunctional schools and badly staffed clinics to arrive at his conclusion of a non-existent Gujarat model of development


    49. MI6 is a Foreign Office responsibility, and since the CIA lifted its ban on assassinations following 9/11, the people at Vauxhall Cross have developed a highly secret military wing that they can task directly, mainly staffed by members of the SAS and other special forces


    50. were already short staffed

































    1. schools is best described as a casualty of diminishing public resources, inadequate staffing, and obsolete textbooks ad nauseum


    2. An $180,000 study of staffing requirements survived the budget axe


    3. The staffing for the program is under the control of the UNDP and the


    4. concerned - whether it’s your staff, the software vendor, the consultant, or a staffing firm to fill urgent resource shortages - is rewarded based on deliverables for the project as a whole then you are all pulling in the same direction


    5. staffing and contracting policies and practices were followed," the report


    6. The chosen staffing arrangement was for three of the four OOX attorneys to be present together at the Claims Office at any one time


    7. Staffing Plan,” which means that even if she never gets reelected, she still receives her Congressional salary until she dies


    8. Why? A survey “Schools and Staffing Survey” by the National


    9. A federal staffing survey shows that of science teachers in our secondary schools, 40 percent never majored in science


    10. This usually produced an outpouring of the prospect’s sales problems, staffing decisions, and negative observations about the general business

    11. It took four more business days for the staffing


    12. and we feel that other viewpoints should have been considered in staffing the trans-temporial incursion personnel


    13. They sat down and discussed strategies and organisation including the staffing


    14. Obtaining a temporary medical license and working visa for Australia was relatively easy, but required a lot of paper work which was thankfully mostly handled by Global Medical Staffing


    15. In fact, we did not begin to look actively for a new locums position but stayed in touch with our agency, Global Medical Staffing


    16. Luckily the Global Medical Staffing people were most helpful and understanding and guided us through the process every step of the way


    17. We filled in the appropriate forms and sent them off to Global Medical Staffing


    18. Through the intercession of Global Medical Staffing it was decided that we (my wife and I) would fly to Adelaide via Sydney on a visitors visa just before Christmas, have our interview in Adelaide, relax a bit there and then fly to Launceston at the end of December and await the “final” documents of approval


    19. Saralynn White at Global Medical Staffing gave useful suggestions and was helpful in the promotion of the book


    20. modification of systems and structures (staffing, training,

    21. tion to expand the plant, choosing to keep it to the same size and staffing levels as


    22. Rachel was about to step out of the staffing complex reception area when a Commodore called to her


    23. “Then why do you think you can break a list of staffing regulations as long as my arm?”


    24. Captain Curra floated off in the direction of the staffing office complex


    25. She had barely acknowledged the call when Commodore Burkhalter from Staffing Allocation screamed, “Are you out of your mind? Captain Curra is a felon! He belongs in the brig not on the bridge of a battleship!”


    26. “We are over a hundred people short of our authorized staffing and yet we will embark on a mission that could as easily make history as the one our father embarked on as he fled from Earth


    27. accepted the change of staffing without further comment


    28. This hospital had below standard staffing levels and security


    29. In an environment where staffing decisions and the funding of


    30. The Bureau was on a reduced staffing level on a Saturday afternoon, so not

    31. day a week to assess staffing implications


    32. staffing needs within the designated Massachusetts region


    33. Analyze staffing levels of CSR's to meet


    34. and trusted name in staffing, Kelly employees can expect:


    35.  Flexible hours and project-by-project staffing that lets


    36. 5, allows the observer to view and manipulate the parameters involved in determining the staffing and equipment requirements for a hamburger stand


    37. They offer a hiring management system, which is focused on recruitment, and staffing management


    38. "My brother, you have probably heard that I am staffing with a caravan in a few


    39. They cut costs related to accounting, telephones, and other back-of-the-house staffing, and they lowered debt levels


    40. Baron has been an early investor in many successful businesses, including nursing home operator Manor Care; casino Wynn Resorts; for-profit education providers DeVry and Strayer Education; staffing company Robert Half; and online diamond retailer Blue Nile

    1. As he made the sudden lunge forward, they dropped their own staffs, grasped the ends of his just as suddenly and with the strength necessary to heft a two hundred pound timber, they pulled him forward adding his own momentum to theirs


    2. They picked up their staffs and began following him down the road, every now and then 'switching sides' at a moment of their own choosing and with a flourish of new precision


    3. church staffs and buildings


    4. I could hear the Colonel shouting for the next case and glaring at poor Lt Howarth I was not taken back to the convent but to a small Château that was the Divisional Staffs residence


    5. General Shafter, the generals of divisions and brigades, and their staffs, and an escort of cavalry rode beyond the lines at ten o'clock, to receive the capitulation of Santiago


    6. In one of the more surreal episodes in US history, Truman and MacArthur's staffs then began negotiating a meeting place


    7. The end wall was covered in a formidable array of weapons: swords, spears, knives, staffs, bows and arrows, whips, battleaxes, and shields


    8. I joined Theodore and the other tumen commanders and their staffs on a ride around the fortress


    9. Add to this mix, complacent and below average teaching staffs and the hammer of unions and we have a prescription for failure


    10. staffs had handled the bulk of these matters

    11. staffs in the House of Representatives have grown by 158 percent


    12. The growth of committees and their attendant staffs insulates Con-


    13. There are two long staffs that run through the container and hold it suspended above the ground


    14. The staffs are supported by some logs


    15. medical centers with medical staffs on salary spend much larger amounts for the


    16. plates of tacos, broken champagne glasses, and the shattered staffs of


    17. They help commands and staffs


    18. Staff: Staffs deal with support, stability and direction


    19. He pulled off one of the staffs and tossed it to the girl, who caught it and twirled it expertly


    20. It might have been a trick of the light, but it seemed to him that occasionally those staffs moved slightly of their own accord, as if possessed of an unspeakable life of their own

    21. And along this latter tunnel filed a bizarre procession—four tall, gaunt men in black, hooded robes, leaning on staffs


    22. Curved knives flashed and crimsoned, snaky staffs licked in and out, and whenever they touched a man, that man screamed and died


    23. After consulting with her munitions and tactical staffs, Commodore Dankese elected to clear the containers before going in herself


    24. Reuben’s wife Suwanee had earned her degree in emergency medicine and was responsible for the first responders and medical transport support staffs


    25. ” They both tried tapping on the ice with their staffs but nothing happen


    26. staffs have placed my baby in a ‘special’ maternity ward


    27. Ingrid and Mike got to sit in the first rows, with the other actors and main movie staffs, flanking Nancy on each side


    28. meeting of the chiefs of staffs at ten in the conference room of the White House, where we will decide on a plan of action in the Pacific


    29. The car ride was short and Hull arrived well in time for the meeting, finding in the conference room of the White House the commanders of the Navy, Army, Marines and Army Air Force, the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, the Chief of the Joint Staffs, the Commander of the Pacific fleet and the President’s Chief of Staff, Admiral Leahy


    30. King, a stern man unaccustomed to having someone oppose him openly, was about to reply when General Marshall, the Army Chief of Staffs, cut him off

    31. Any hesitation after the gripes expected (1 day of gripes) should lead to hound dog ferreting with the staffs of the Chiefs and so on down the line, to get the information summarized nicely in the president’s office on time, in one week


    32. They should understand tradeoffs between dollars and performance and develop personal knowledge of the performance of staffs they monitor


    33. Our army buildup is still only in midstride and what we have is a lot of half-trained troops, led by inexperienced divisional staffs


    34. Walker then reviewed the list with growing excitement: this was going to make the various chiefs of staffs water at the mouth


    35. � Since the success of its first combat mission, the Avro VULTURE helicopter had become very popular with the higher staffs, with many useless concepts about its eventual use being pushed around constantly by overenthusiastic officers who understood nothing about helicopters


    36. With the day-old satellite pictures of the Senkaku Islands provided by the United States, the Japanese air staffs had been able to carefully pinpoint every visible Chinese position, vehicle or weapon system on the islands and to program their exact GPS coordinates into the fire control computers of the F-2 fighters, coordinates that would let them drop each bomb within ten meters of their assigned targets


    37. But much had gone well, the intricate organization had been effective and had proved it possible to form integrated American and British staffs


    38. Joint Chiefs of Staffs Conference Room


    39. Spreading quickly through the three levels of the establishment, they found a mixture of support staffs, prostitutes and customers, nearly all still asleep when they entered


    40. You may be interested to know that the large majority of our administrative and communications staffs are made of women

    41. Our whole rear area will become a joint one, so I expect your chiefs of staffs to show flexibility and not start futile turf wars


    42. persons in white robes came and pointed white staffs together in a


    43. With the congressional delegation, USO troupe, reporters and aides taking place in the two buses with their luggage, Ingrid rode with Vice-President Warren in her jeep, while Chesty Puller gave a lift in his jeep to Lieutenant General Whiteman, the representative of General Omar Bradley, the Chief of the Joint Staffs, and to James Grover McDonald, a State Department representative


    44. speaking, a group of people against one person had some disadvantages, especially when brandishing weapons such as swords or staffs as they had to be cautious about hitting one of their own


    45. known and most valued website authorities with small staffs and budgets


    46. Axes, and staffs, and chairs were in hand


    47. I could see that the cameras were in as close as they could get and kept both of us, and the staffs in the picture


    48. ” And he swung both his staffs to form a powerful windforce that hit him like a heavy gravity


    49. In another instant, the staffs


    50. A line of dark-cloaked mages passed them, holding staffs and keeping their eyes forward, neither looking at each other or anyone else who passed them









































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    Synonyms for "staff"

    staff stave faculty personnel crew organisation organization cast cadre rod cane pole club bar wand

    "staff" definitions

    personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task


    a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose


    the body of teachers and administrators at a school


    building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration


    a rod carried as a symbol


    (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written


    provide with staff


    serve on the staff of