Sentence examples for a high office of from inspiring English sources

His first important appointment was as inquisitor, a high office of the Inquisition, then the Roman Catholic church's judicial system for discovering, examining, and punishing heretics.

In travelling from a job in broadcasting (spin doctor at the late Carlton TV) to a high office of state, David Cameron is fairly unusual.

We know that he was seemingly incapable of stopping this behavior even after losing a high office because of it.

Here is the South Carolina convention in 1860, explaining the rationale for secession: A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.

The confusion and bad blood is casting a shadow over the return to high office of Buhari, who first came to power after a military coup in 1983.

Part of the reason Elizabeth gets the job is because she is not a career politician with any aspirations of achieving a higher office.

Six resigned to accept a higher office: Crittenden was appointed Attorney General of the United States and the other five were elected to the U.S. Senate.

Mr Straw, 62 this month, has been a steady performer for years in high offices of state.

Women ascending to high offices of political power?

But on the Monday before Valentine's Day, as a half-dozen minors vied for the highest office of a state that had never bothered to codify any gubernatorial age requirements, it was still absurd.

The arrival in the highest office of a single oddball neurotic individual, half-disengaged even from his supporters, has upended everything.