Wearing the trousers

Usage examples of in charge.

Nabu li Pazua, Director of the Institute in charge of psychogenetic research, greeted them.

But regarding the tariffs in question, I must speak to someone who is truly in charge, or else his chosen representative.

Everyone wants to be in charge, to make their own rules, to be their own god.

The driver wished the male newly in charge of the landcruiser would shut up and let the crew do their jobs.

Ignoring the officer in charge of the airstrip, the foreign commissar stumped off into the darkness.

He was soon talking to the woman in charge, to whom he explained events of the past two weeks.

The man who sounded as though he was in charge was almost certainly the one who had been in her hospital room that night in Midland.

At one point he considered resigning to protest their refusal to even talk about it, but his wife convinced him to be patient and wait until those in charge were more sympathetic to the idea.

Arnold Brown, who was in charge of its development, determined from the outset that knowledge of its existence should be limited to as few individuals as possible.

We have very recently regained communications with General Serov, who is in charge of the Strategic Defense Control Facility at Mizpe Ramon.

Executive Director Louis Colleta as the Alternate in charge of ECOSOC, that position had been held for the last two years by the ambassador from Australia.

Christopher signaled to the one in charge, and the four men rolled the table and crate into the room and then left, closing the double doors behind them.

Retired Automobiles, with me in charge and Matthew the first member of a distinguished line.

When the attendant told her fatherwho was in charge of the shopwhat had occurred, he realized immediately that something was wrong.

We discovered that, of the four generals in charge of the enterprise, two were opposed to it from the beginning, a third was won over when the building disappearedbut the fourth, General Doocar, the man in charge, unfortunately will not abandon the attack until she does.