Sentence examples for a prestigious appointment from inspiring English sources

At one point, he declined a prestigious appointment at the University of Chicago because he believed that he was in line to become emperor of Antarctica.

The failure was Leopold's inability, despite his persistence, to secure a prestigious appointment either for himself or for Wolfgang.

Leopold also hoped that Wolfgang, and possibly he himself, would obtain a prestigious appointment at one of the Italian Habsburg courts.

In May 1938, Bush accepted a prestigious appointment as president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), which had been founded in Washington, D.C. Also known as the Carnegie Institution for Science, it had an endowment of $33 million, and annually spent $1.5 million in research, most of which was carried out at its eight major laboratories.

Yet it was not the way Mr. McGeady had expected his Intel career to play out, after 15 years as a rising star whom Mr. Grove had once offered to make his personal technical assistant -- a prestigious Intel appointment that is typically a stepping stone to a high executive post.

Or to a rising star in the academic world forced to turn down a prestigious university appointment because she cannot take her care package with her? Disabled people can't be economically productive if the support that enables them to live independently is missing or unaffordable.

After he outlines his findings in a series of letters to a respected university, Koch not only wins a prestigious academic appointment, he becomes a celebrity.

Two weeks after the Bronx High School of Science lost a cherished candidate for principal to the suburbs, Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy has taken the prestigious appointment out of the hands of the superintendent for Bronx high schools.

In 1930, Beckett returned to Trinity as a lecturer in French; his parents would have been as proud of this prestigious appointment as they were aghast when he resigned from it, in January, 1932, slipping the moorings of a regular profession in favor of more uncertain waters.

"And with this prestigious appointment, the whole world was calling," he added.

He thrives in the parochial atmosphere of Oxbridge, relishing the power of his prestigious appointment and the social interplay of Trinity College.