rapporteur
IPA: ræpˈɔrtʃɝ
noun
- (law, politics) A person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and report back to that body.
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Examples of "rapporteur" in Sentences
- He is the rapporteur of urban prose.
- You know Prescott's the EU's environment 'rapporteur'?
- Comment by U.N. special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia.
- The President assigns the cases to a judge to act as a rapporteur.
- On this subject the examples given by the Rapporteur are meaningful.
- The rapporteur for the published GIII report is entirely correct though.
- This was the second highest Rapporteur position in the Finnish government.
- Its officers are a chairperson, three vice chairpersons, and a rapporteur.
- The former is an official Rapporteur, the latter is just a private person.
- Kouts seems to indeed be a genuine former Estonian commander and EU rapporteur.
- The member of parliament responsible for a dossier in a committee is called the "rapporteur".
- The word rapporteur in French has various other meanings besides a reporter, such as an informer or a tattletale, and a protractor.
- I would also like to express the Commission's gratitude to the rapporteur and her co rapporteur and thank the Committee as a whole for the work they have done.
- Well the UN has done something comparable by appointing Richard Falk as its supposedly impartial "rapporteur" on Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories.
- The captain "rapporteur" of a court-martial allowed a poor peasant to escape the punishment due to the offence of having bought a loaf of sugar beyond the custom-house barrier.
- Bernadotte's visit to me -- Trial by court-martial for the purchase of a sugar-loaf -- Davoust and the captain "rapporteur" -- Influence of the Continental system on Napoleon's fall.
- Frene Ginwala, South Africa's parliament speaker who has acted as the conference "rapporteur," emphasised that the document calls on both government and opposition groups to promote democracy.
- Personally, FWIW, the report contained rather too much overblown rhetoric for my taste, and too little citation of supporting evidence otuside of a very narrow selection of French authors with whom the rapporteur was apparently friendly.
- If your excellency considers that gentleman in the light of a "rapporteur," or talebearer, it is not for me to object; but the imputation of being a listener to or encourager of talebearers, so rashly advanced by your excellency against me, is without foundation in truth.