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community and government director

Portuguese translation: diretor do Tesco em assuntos governamentais e comunitários

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English term or phrase:community and government director
Portuguese translation:diretor do Tesco em assuntos governamentais e comunitários
Entered by: Christina Moreira

15:55 May 27, 2008
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Journalism / geral
English term or phrase: community and government director
Oi, pessoal.

Eu preciso de ajuda para traduzir a função acima. Contexto:

"Our customers have told us that they decide where they shop based on whether the business is a good neighbor," says David North, **Tesco’s community and government director**."

Obrigada,

Christina.
Christina Moreira
Brazil
Local time: 10:50
diretor do Tesco em assuntos governamentais e comunitários
Explanation:
David North foi eleito o diretor em assuntos governamentais para o Tesco e também diretor de responsabilidade corporativa da mesma rede de supermercados.

Tesco is keen on employing former government officials. In 2001, it paid Philip Gould, one of Tony Blair's most trusted political advisers, to help reorganise its publicity, media and lobbying operation. It also hired David North, the Prime Minister's private secretary and a specialist in rural affairs, to take up a new position as director of government affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility, a post that was introduced as a direct result of Philip Gould's advice. North represented Blair on the Rural Recovery Task Force, set up to rebuild British farming after the foot and mouth crisis. He also helped to run the Cabinet Office's unit to support biotechnology at the height of the GM foods controversy in 1999.128

It was just last month that David North, government affairs director for Tesco, attended a public meeting to answer residents' questions about Tesco's plans ...
www.davidruffleymp.com/type20show.asp?ref=28&ID=98 - 7k -

skip to navigation Tesco | Every little helps Tesco Corporate Responsibility Review 2007 ... David North, Community and Government Director (Deputy Chair); ...
www.tescocorporate.com/crreport07/02_crinourbusiness/corpco... - 8k -

However, in a tense exchange Tesco's director of government affairs and corporate responsibility David North launched a fervent defence of the policy, ...
www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2217167/tesco-def... - 72k -
Selected response from:

Illa Karina Rocha
Brazil
Local time: 10:50
Grading comment
Obrigada, Illa!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2diretor do Tesco em assuntos governamentais e comunitários
Illa Karina Rocha
5Governador da comunidade de...
Isabel Maria Almeida
3 +1Diretor da comunidade e do governo (de Tesco)
rhandler
4vice-diretor/vice presidente da comunidade e governo (comunidade governamental)
Marcos Antonio
3Diretor de assuntos de comunidade e governo da Tesco
Silvia Aquino


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Diretor da comunidade e do governo (de Tesco)


Explanation:
Acredito que seja isso mesmo. Alguém indicado pela comunidade e pelo governo.

rhandler
Local time: 10:50
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Flavio Steffen
4 mins
  -> Obrigado, Flavio!
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Governador da comunidade de...


Explanation:
Ao referirmo-nos a comunidade e governo não usamos o termo "director" mas "governador"

Isabel Maria Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 14:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Diretor de assuntos de comunidade e governo da Tesco


Explanation:
Parece fazer sentido

Silvia Aquino
Brazil
Local time: 10:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
community and government director.
vice-diretor/vice presidente da comunidade e governo (comunidade governamental)


Explanation:
Sug.

Creio que "director" neste caso equivale a "deputy chair" . O superior a ele é o "Executive Director", conforme o site abaixo.


- Lucy Neville-Rolfe, CMG, Executive Director – Corporate and Legal Affairs (Committee Chair) ; David North, Community and Government Director (Deputy Chair);; Keith Aughwane, Engineering and Maintenance Director;; Terry Babbs, International Trading ...
www.tescocorporate.com/crreport07/02_crinourbusiness/corpco... - 8k


    www.tescocorporate.com/crreport07/02_crinourbusiness/corpcommittee.html - 8k -
Marcos Antonio
Local time: 10:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 18
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50 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
diretor do Tesco em assuntos governamentais e comunitários


Explanation:
David North foi eleito o diretor em assuntos governamentais para o Tesco e também diretor de responsabilidade corporativa da mesma rede de supermercados.

Tesco is keen on employing former government officials. In 2001, it paid Philip Gould, one of Tony Blair's most trusted political advisers, to help reorganise its publicity, media and lobbying operation. It also hired David North, the Prime Minister's private secretary and a specialist in rural affairs, to take up a new position as director of government affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility, a post that was introduced as a direct result of Philip Gould's advice. North represented Blair on the Rural Recovery Task Force, set up to rebuild British farming after the foot and mouth crisis. He also helped to run the Cabinet Office's unit to support biotechnology at the height of the GM foods controversy in 1999.128

It was just last month that David North, government affairs director for Tesco, attended a public meeting to answer residents' questions about Tesco's plans ...
www.davidruffleymp.com/type20show.asp?ref=28&ID=98 - 7k -

skip to navigation Tesco | Every little helps Tesco Corporate Responsibility Review 2007 ... David North, Community and Government Director (Deputy Chair); ...
www.tescocorporate.com/crreport07/02_crinourbusiness/corpco... - 8k -

However, in a tense exchange Tesco's director of government affairs and corporate responsibility David North launched a fervent defence of the policy, ...
www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2217167/tesco-def... - 72k -


Illa Karina Rocha
Brazil
Local time: 10:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Obrigada, Illa!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Luciana Roppa
58 mins
  -> Luciana, muito obrigada!
agree  Cristina Santos
3 hrs
  -> Cristina, obrigada!
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