Sentence examples for acts of office from inspiring English sources

As one of his final acts of office, President Clinton is expected to grant a full pardon to Michael R. Milken, the former Wall Street financier who was convicted of securities fraud, lawyers involved in the process said today.

[C3.] Full Pardon for Milken Is Expected As one of his final acts of office, President Clinton is expected to grant a full pardon to Michael R. Milken, the former Wall Street financier who was convicted of securities fraud, lawyers involved in the process said.

WASHINGTON — As President Obama stood on the east steps of the Capitol, waiting to review the troops in his new role as commander in chief, he discreetly moved the American flag pin from the lapel of his suit to his black wool overcoat and proceeded onto one of his first ceremonial acts of office.

In fact, the Patagonia project exists only because Chile's notorious Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in one of the dictator's last acts of office, gave away Patagonia's water rights to a privatized energy company that was later bought by Endesa.

Madison's only official act of office was the appointment of Colonel Charles S. Todd as secretary of state.

The three-judge panel that oversees Mr. Ray's office is, in fact, expected to release within a few weeks the report on Whitewater issues, the final act of the office of independent counsel.

Cleveland was the first Democratic President subject to the Tenure of Office Act which originated in 1867; the act purported to require the Senate to approve the dismissal of any presidential appointee who was originally subject to its advice and consent.

The company of nine dancers first acts out stylised scenes of office drudgery, then gradually transforms into figures in Clara's imagined world, dancing on and around Joe Vanek's versatile set of desks, chairs, and shelving units on wheels.

Here was an event that impacted the lives of New Yorkers and the simple act of sharing offices enabled a group of people to go from merely sharing in a tragedy to becoming a community that helped one another live our lives in the aftermath.

Johnson was impeached on several grounds, including his violation of the Tenure of Office Act, which forbade the president from removing civil officers without the consent of the Senate.

Sherman, a moderate, took the side of the Radicals in voting for the Tenure of Office Act, which passed over Johnson's veto in 1867— but in debating the First Reconstruction Act, he argued against disenfranchising Southern men who had participated in the rebellion.