Word Finder - portfolio

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A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents.

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(by extension) The collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer.

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The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department.

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• ministry

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The group of investments and other assets held by an investor.

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A collection of assets generally.

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I would like to introduce you to our portfolio of services.

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A range of products.

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product portfolio

Late in the year 1813 he took up the portfolio of military affairs.

After the war he repeatedly declined the portfolio of war.

He held at the same time the portfolio of the interior.

She unzipped the portfolio and pulled out a large canvas that had hundreds of shoes painted in oil; every style and color imaginable.

In this he took the portfolio of the Interior, and the main energy of the government was devoted to the struggle with clericalism.

When Briand reconstituted his Cabinet, in Dec. 1916, Ribot retained the portfolio of Finance.

Of the artistic periodicals we may signalize the Art Journal (1849), Portfolio (1870), Magazine of Art (1878-1904), Studio (1893), Connoisseur (1901), and Burlington (1903).

Rouvier himself took the portfolio of foreign affairs at this anxious juncture.

These views met with some degree of consideration at Vienna, and Palacky was even offered a portfolio in the Pillersdorf cabinet.

On the 5th of November, accordingly, Laffitte became minister-president of a government pledged to progress (mouvement), holding at the same time the portfolio of finance.

In the first constitutional cabinet, presided over by Cardinal Antonelli, Minghetti held the portfolio of public works, but after the allocution by Pius IX.

But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip.

This portfolio he retained consecutively in the Freycinet, the Loubet and the Ribot cabinets, 1890-93.

In 1832 he was a Minister of State without portfolio, next year ambassador at Naples, and from 1835 to 1840 was ambassador to Great Britain.

He took little part in public. life until 1869, when he accepted the portfolio of agriculture in the Menabrea Cabinet.

In 1873 he overthrew the Lanza-Sella Cabinet and regained the premiership, which, with the portfolio of finance, he held until the fall.

In the foreign relations of the United States, as directed by President McKinley, the most significant change was the cordial understanding established with the British government, to which much was contributed by his secretary of state, John Hay, appointed to that portfolio when he was ambassador to the court of St James, and which was due to some extent to the friendliness of the British press and even more markedly of the British navy in the Pacific during the Spanish War.

In 1888 in the National Republican convention he was a candidate for the presidential nomination, but withdrew his name in favour of Benjamin Harrison, whose offer to him in 1889 of the portfolio of state he refused.

From the 4th of September 1870 he held the portfolio of finance in the government of National Defence.

After a few months of office Mole retired, and it was not until 1836 that the fall of Thiers led to his becoming prime minister of a new government, in which he held the portfolio of foreign affairs.

A year later he was selected to be secretary-general of public instruction, and in 1862 received from Rattazzi the portfolio of finance.

The executive government is carried on under a cabinet composed of seven or eight vizirs (ministers), of whom one, besides holding a portfolio, is vizir azam, prime minister.

Accepting the portfolio of public works in the Rattazzi cabinet in 1862, he served as intermediary in arranging with Garibaldi the expedition which ended disastrously at Aspromonte.

After thus securing ample funds for the enormous expenditures of the war, Fessenden resigned the treasury portfolio in March 1865, and again took his seat in the Senate, serving till his death.

Resigning his portfolio, he continued to declare his conviction of Dreyfus's guilt, and joined the Nationalist group in the chamber, of which he became one of the leaders.

Can you corroborate the evidence in the portfolio?

This will be assessed both during the final crit, as well as during portfolio marking at the end of the year.

Salzedo was a celebrated concert harpist, and he designed the Chanson to show off a portfolio of harpist's techniques.

His stellar performance complete failure to help out the peugeot workers at Ryton has probably hastened his shift to another portfolio.

The market is currently down 12.7% since the portfolio's inception, versus 15.2% down last time.

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Her sister dropped the portfolio.

A portfolio of past work is available right from the main website.

The major capital expenditure was for storage heaters, compensated for by a gratifying rise in our portfolio valuation.

News from other portfolio constituents has been broadly positive.

The submissions sent to us so far will go to provide a visually dynamic and varied portfolio.

Indeed our technical expertise in the major items of our portfolio is the key to the success of the products in the market.

Being around the top half of the FTSE 100 means fund managers need the group in their portfolio.

Bob informed members that John was at present working on a new portfolio to be handed out to prospective sponsors.

Our portfolio of products was further expanded by the acquisition of a range of pain and/or nausea relief products from CeNeS.

He now manages a portfolio of clients across the financial services sector.

I've also compiled a portfolio of some good systems which I think are worth following all year round.

Candidates will be required to submit a portfolio of recent work.

Due to their expanding portfolio of clients they are now looking to recruit 3-4 Asbestos Air Monitoring Technicians / Analysts in Northern Ireland.

The Fund will invest principally in a diversified portfolio of securities issued by North American companies.

We have an enviable broad-based business portfolio, with leading positions in each of the global markets in which we operate.

From the resulting clusters, individual stocks may be selected to represent the group in a balanced portfolio.

You MUST be able to demonstrate an impressive on-line portfolio.

Enjoy wines at retail prices from across the extensive portfolio with or without a tutor to guide you.

Its diverse portfolio has already caught the attention of two hedge funds.