Sentence examples for a temporary post in from inspiring English sources

But today Mr. McGreevey ensured that his nominee, Joseph Santiago, can begin work -- giving him a temporary post in his administration while he undergoes scrutiny by the State Senate.

After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Whitman's brother was wounded at Fredericksburg, and Whitman went there in 1862, staying some time in the camp, then taking a temporary post in the paymaster's office in Washington.

Rui Shi, the associate chief physician of orthopedic oncology at West China Hospital in Chengdu, first heard the term "translational medicine" in 2008, when he took a temporary post in the hospital's technology transfer office.

In January 1879, he took a temporary post as a missionary in the village of Petit Wasmes in the coal-mining district of Borinage in Belgium at Charbonnage de Marcasse, Van Gogh lived like those he preached to, sleeping on straw in a small hut at the back of the baker's house where he was staying.

He is already at work at the agency in a temporary post while he awaits Senate confirmation.

Though arriving without money or firm prospects for employment, he soon got a temporary post teaching comparative literature at Wellesley; in 1948, he ascended to a full professorship at Cornell, where he taught Russian Literature.

Later, back in Seattle, he took on a temporary post at Boeing – it would last 40 years.

That will be seen as a second victory for Shearer, who was officially confirmed in his temporary post in a statement released after Wise's departure.

Q. Are we seeing a permanent change in the makeup of boards, or just a temporary post-Enron reaction?

In addition, a temporary professional post in watershed management has been established and a senior consultant was recruited to ensure that the time and resources absorbed in IYM preparation and observance, at a high level of activity, and FAO technical programme in watershed management do not affect the ability of maintaining, including both field and normative aspects.

The first great awakening came when I was only four years old and my father, a British academic, accepted a temporary teaching post in a small Massachusetts town named, oddly, Cambridge.