Sentence examples for a provost from inspiring English sources

"We will begin a search for a provost," he said.

Malcolm Grant, a provost at the university, said: "UCL is deeply saddened by these events.

The budgetary reform dragged, in part because Sullivan hired a provost and a chief operating officer who couldn't get along.

Before joining the Bush administration, she was professor of political science and a provost at Stanford University.

Dr. Butler got the idea that "secretary" didn't describe what he was doing and made him a provost.

A provost marshal aided by a few locals found and arrested the assailants, but a crowd of 70 armed men surrounded them and forcibly freed the prisoners.

"They would have stood in their tracks and been shot down to a man by a provost-marshal's guard, but they could not have been urged up that bank.

Northwestern University first appointed a Provost-level inquiry committee to examine the charges against Bailey.

Then, in November 2003, the university announced that the inquiry committee had found cause to continue the investigation, and so a Provost-level investigation committee was formed (C. Bradley Moore to Alice Dreger, p.e.c., August 1, 2006).

We have had positive interactions with each of these administrators, and having a new provost was a good excuse for arranging a meeting with him.

In the past, typical postings would be from colleges seeking, say, a new provost or a registrar.