Sentence examples for Select for the post from inspiring English sources

Not any longer to allow the job to be filled by accident of birth, but instead to select for the post by democratic means.

When selected for the post by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the Rev. Coggan took four days to accept the offer.

The prospect of another man being selected for the post – the current frontrunner is the former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres – leaves her exasperated.

He dismisses any suggestion that the family has ownership of the post, saying he and his son applied and were selected for the post of head gardener.

He was selected for the post in August by the National Conference for Unification - a puppet political body hand-picked by Park.

It could be difficult, they feared, to attract a strong candidate who would be the third person selected for the post.

The Constitution does allow a majority of the lower house to hold a no-confidence vote on the prime minister — meaning that Mr. Prayuth, even if selected for the post, might not be certain to keep it for long.

Mr. Walsh was selected for the post under provisions of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which was designed to remove the Justice Department from investigations that pose a conflict of interest.

She graduated in 1910 and pursued graduate studies there for a year until, at the recommendation of Agnes Irwin, the lately retired dean of Radcliffe, she was selected for the post of principal of the Emma Willard School (before 1895 the Troy Female Seminary).

In a statement to a US Senate committee after his nomination as ambassador, Mr Stevens wrote of his "extraordinary honour" at being selected for the post.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whom Erdogan selected for the post after becoming president in 2014, said during a speech in Ankara, the capital, that he would leave out of "necessity".