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comptroller

[kuhn-troh-ler, komp-troh-ler] / kənˈtroʊ lər, kɒmpˈtroʊ lər /


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A classified May 2024 report by Israel’s comptroller general warned Israel’s aviation security had grown lax and identified major issues in the way foreign airlines entering Israeli airspace were secured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Even a former U.S. comptroller of the currency agrees.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Nathan Johnson also unseated state Sen. Don Huffines, a Dallas Republican that cycle; Johnson is now running for attorney general, and Huffines for comptroller.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

The act abolished the offices of comptroller and assistant comptroller of the Treasury and transferred all their other officers and employees to the new GAO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Des Moines and Barcelona are comparable in latitude. comptroller.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023

Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017

He has also enlisted the state and city comptrollers to audit and inspect existing shelters to push them to improve conditions, making them cleaner and safer.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 13, 2016

The list of signatures on a copy of the letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal includes Thomas P. DiNapoli and Scott M. Stringer, the comptrollers of New York state and New York City, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015

Orders were given to arrest M. d'Espremesnil and a young councillor, Goislard de Montsabert, who had proposed an inquiry into the conduct of the comptrollers commissioned to collect the second twentieth.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black


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