Sentence examples for accede to office from inspiring English sources

The next stage is likely to be the toughest of a four-month fight by Mr. Ouattara to accede to office after the elections last November.

Ford assumed the duties of vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, and upon Nixon's resignation from office to avoid impeachment, Ford became the first president to accede to office according to the Twenty-fifth Amendment on Aug. 9, 1974.

Over the past 25 Congresses, there have been, by my count, 49 senators who were selected by gubernatorial appointment in midterm (this excludes cases where a senator-elect acceded to office a few days early to gain seniority on his colleagues, a once-common courtesy that is becoming less so).

Mr. Obama is, after all, about to accede to an office in which one of the bedrock and least fettered powers is that of granting pardons and reprieves.

Assad the father acceded to power after a coup in 1971.

The district attorney's office said an internal investigation had revealed that the message attributed to Mr. Wachtler was a forgery, but the office did not accede to a request from The New York Times for copies of the correspondence or documentation of the internal investigation.

Dec. 9, 1993: The Prime Minister advises the Raëlian Religion through his office, that he cannot accede to our request.

To accede to the demands from Mr. Nestor's office before then, the letter said, could be counterproductive.

President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to deport as many as 3 million people once he accedes to the Oval Office, and that fencing will form part of his promised wall on the border with Mexico.

He has never held office or otherwise served his country, never acceded to the authority of competing visions and democratic resolutions.

He refused to accede to their wishes.