Sentence examples for accepted chairmanship from inspiring English sources

In the first term of George W. Bush, Perle accepted chairmanship of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory body with a mixed state-private character that provides its members access to classified information and top-secret intelligence reports.

After President Kennedy came into office Roger Stevens accepted the chairmanship of the board.

Ruth Klein accepted the chairmanship of the society on the understanding that He would come in 2000.

At one stage Rolls Razor shares were suspended, but Reader Harris still accepted the chairmanship in 1961.

Last week, Myanmar accepted the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a responsibility that entails hosting numerous meetings of government leaders and steering the agenda of the regional group.

The chairman of the Board of Trustees, Spyros Skouras, was unable to devote a sufficient amount of time to the affairs of the Committee so Senator Lehman accepted the chairmanship.

Tyler became the favourite for the Sainsbury's job after another former GUS executive John Peace accepted the chairmanship of Standard Chartered instead.

The realist in him, however, slowly overcame his hostility, and in 1989 he accepted the chairmanship of WPP plc, then the largest agency group in the world.

Tory leaders were shaken last week when Steve Norris, the party's London mayoral candidate, accepted the chairmanship of the rail maintenance firm Jarvis.

"'And somebody's got to take on these guys.'" And so Williams's father, a man who for decades fed his family on proceeds from the fossil fuel industry, accepted the chairmanship of Tempest Exploration's board.

In 1942, because of his interest in the subject, he accepted the chairmanship of the Chicago branch of the Universities Committee on Postwar International Problems.