Sentence examples for acted as head from inspiring English sources

Most households were male headed, and even for the few widows, the matured son acted as head of the household.

During de Valera's long absence (in North America 1919 20), Griffith acted as head of the Dáil ministry and carried out his own program of civil disobedience.

Kendall also acted as head of the biochemistry laboratory there from 1945 to 1951, and he was later visiting professor of chemistry at Princeton University.

After teaching civil law at Uppsala University (1891 95), Hammarskjöld worked in the Ministry of Justice and acted as head of that ministry in 1901 02.

After Leopold stepped down, Baudouin acted as head of state from Aug. 11, 1950, until July 16 , 1951 and the next day he became the fifth king of the Belgians.

The cleaners were coming to wash it all away, but Ivy, a 34-year-old bartender and musician who lived here on occasion and acted as head of household to the three teenage residents (Robinson's name was not on the lease, but he had been living there since December), said none will return.

The president acts as head of state and exercises executive authority along with the prime minister and cabinet.

Mr. Lowitt, 48, will become that firm's chief financial officer and also act as head of global strategy, according to a release from the company.

The president, elected by popular vote for a term of six years, acts as head of state and calls parliament into session.

"A bit of pressure is not unwelcome," Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who acts as head of the Eurogroup, said on French radio regarding the S.&P.

Giorgos Hatzis, 33, who acts as head of the area's mine workers' union, said: "All we want to do is provide for our families.