“The difference in style and execution of the two deals symbolizes wider contrasts that will filter through to the market as the four companies involved go through their transition periods.”

“All photo entries will be scored based on their originality, technical execution, and narrative abilities.”

“They had been summarily tried and sentenced to execution by firing squad before sundown.”

“The executor diligently fulfilled the deceased's final wishes as outlined in their will.”

“The executor of the plan successfully executed the project ahead of schedule.”

“She named the young man executor of her will and instituted him as the sole and universal heir of her modest estate.”

“The masked executioner slipped the noose around Shadow's neck and slowly adjusted it to fit.”

“The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges.”

“Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.”

“Did the chief executive ask the senior manager whether such cash payments had been received?”

“Mr Brown, who has been suspended from his job of general secretary, said he would defend all the charges put to him by the executive of the union.”

“The system requires the presence of an executable to run the program successfully.”

“I can best describe this book as a series of masterclasses at which we are, mercifully, not required to put our executant talents under scrutiny.”

“Still, as executant and chief player on the credits, Scorsese must take the chief responsibility.”

“When Pachmann plays Chopin the music sings itself, as if without the intervention of an executant, of one who stands between the music and our hearing.”

“The chief exec of BT Retail has admitted that the cost of broadband in the UK is too high.”

“The executability of his command would depend upon the remaining strength and stamina of the men.”

“The executability of the file would depend on compatibility with the updated hardware.”

“He defines his work as software, and that means he's more interested in the executability of a set of instructions than in the final appearance.”

“It is a legal structure that has been designed to accomplish several desirable goals, two of which are to avoid executorship and paying estate duty.”

“But surely thou dost not pretend to say what I shall, or shall not do, as to the executorship.”

“Mr Armstrong found him in an unusually balmy frame of mind, anxious to go into the executorship accounts.”

“It was, however, well understood at Athens that the planner and executer of the deed was Demosthenes.”

“She was the instigator and the executer of the crime against Naboth.”

“Subsequently the executrix discovered that an asset of the deceased had during his life been sold at an undervalue.”

“By now you will have figured out that I am John's executrix, responsible for overseeing the final closing down of his business and his estate.”

“By his will dated 8th June 1956 he appointed the Mother to be his executrix and bequeathed all his property whatsoever or wheresoever to her.”

“There were interviews with executioners who described the process that was unfolding behind the prison walls.”

“Near them are statues of the three executioners Bao employed to put different ranks of criminals to death.”

“The military will act as interrogators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners.”

“The service also blocks pop-ups and accelerates downloads including MP3s and executables.”

“Be wary of downloading executables or documents from the internet, as these can often harbour computer viruses.”

“Business users are advised to filter for Windows executables and zip files in their email.”

“The topics of these lectures included English composers, English executants, and critics.”

“The greatest Sienese painters were among their executants, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti.”

“Any survey of that time reads like a roll-call of Germany's most famous composers, conductors and executants.”

“The two executives who were kidnapped last week are yet to be released by their abductors.”

“Many accountants made it to the board having previously served as senior executives.”

“As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace.”

“By introducing lethal injections, he had hoped to at least make executions more humane.”

“Instead, there are signs of growing public revulsion over assembly-line executions and rampant police brutality and corruption.”

“For example, if you oppose executions, the number of people on death row recently cleared by DNA evidence probably alarms you.”

“She is one of the executrices of her late father's estate and the proposal cannot proceed without her concurrence.”

“Local lawyers have been asked to look at hundreds of executrices of wills, including the court fees paid for processing documents.”

“She thus conformed to the practice observed by widows in appointing female relatives as executrices or life had taught her to confide more in women than in men.”

“After the war, women increasingly inherited real property and served as executors of men's estates.”

“Gunawan made the headlines as his case also implicated four Marine officers who were the alleged executors of the fatal shooting.”

“Generally speaking all persons who are capable of making wills may be executors, and some others beside, as infants and married women.”

“Despite such side effects, some record execs have decided that the copy protection scheme is a dandy way to prevent music piracy.”

“With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.”

“Not only teenagers but many high flying execs who flaunt a number of mobiles casually are very poor phone conversationalists.”