bureau
Example Sentences
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Construction activity was supported by mild temperatures in parts of southern China, which helped projects proceed on schedule, the bureau said.
In the days after the shooting, the Philippines immigration bureau told the BBC that the father had entered the country using an Indian passport while his son used an Australian passport.
From BBC
He held public meetings and invited the heads of the local police and forestry bureau.
From BBC
The Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that since 2021 it has sent nine cases for review by either its Internal Affairs or Internal Criminal Investigation bureaus, all of which “are still being actively investigated.”
From Los Angeles Times
Bush apparently decided at some unspecified point that the intelligence agencies needed a “watcher” and thus established The Orphanage: analysts downstairs, “mission control” upstairs, the equivalent of an internal-affairs bureau for the clandestine services.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
