Sentence examples for a difficult tenure from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Salad has had a difficult tenure.

He was appointed West Indies coach in 1996 but had a difficult tenure, losing several away series.

Lauder resigned eighteen months after assuming the Vienna post, following a difficult tenure during which Kurt Waldheim, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, was elected Austria's President, despite having been exposed as a Nazi officer.

The mix of mediocrity, malaise and investor ambivalence has made for a difficult tenure for DuPont's chief executive, Charles O. (Chad) Holliday, 54, a company lifer and an aw-shucks nice guy who took on the top job four years ago after running the Asian operations for seven years.

The mix of mediocrity, malaise and investor ambivalence has made for a difficult tenure for DuPont's chief executive, Charles O. (Chad) Holliday, 54, a company lifer and an aw-shucks nice guy who took on the top job four years ago.

John Boehner is experiencing a difficult tenure as U.S. house speaker.

In late December Carnegie Hall announced the sudden resignation, effective Aug. 31, 2001, of its executive and artistic director, Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, after a short, difficult tenure that prompted many resignations among senior staff.

Mr. Williams's successor, Col. Carson J. Dunbar Jr., also plans to leave government, after an unremarkable but difficult tenure, when he steps down Jan . 31

But teaching philosophy, with its modest pay and difficult tenure track, lost its hold on Reddam.

The production was one of the early successes of Hall's initially difficult tenure.

Instead, they considered installing Constantine's brother (and Alexander's uncle), Prince George, but he had tired of public life during his difficult tenure as High Commissioner of Crete between 1901 and 1905; above all, he sought to remain loyal to his brother, and categorically refused to take the throne.