Sentence examples for ancient post from inspiring English sources

When the animal returned, it asked for its ancient post of Warden of the Waters, but the king refused.

Davies had moved to the medieval city two years earlier, to take up the ancient post of canon precentor at Salisbury cathedral.

As holder of the ancient post of lord chancellor, responsible for courts and judges across the land, Derry Irvine had a knack for shutting down irritating interventions from his colleagues.

The holder of that ancient post was head of the judiciary and a member both of the cabinet and the House of Lords an anachronism, but one that struck some judges as a good way of protecting their interests.With the judges and the Lords in revolt against "constitutional vandalism", the government was forced to compromise.

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Blair eschewed many of Britain's own traditions – the independent nation state, parliamentary democracy, common law, inherited titles in the House of Lords, ancient posts such as lord chancellor, and army regiments – but too readily assumed that others would do the same with theirs.

We have developed the hypothesis that some of these changes in host gene expression involve Toxoplasma co-opting host microRNAs (miRNAs), which are central components of an ancient post-transcriptional gene-regulatory mechanism that is highly conserved among the mammalian and avian hosts of Toxoplasma.

The country that boasts the fabled ancient trading post of Timbuktu may seem an unlikely place for the 16-nation tournament, and there has been some dissatisfaction in Mali because of the $11 million cost of staging the event in a nation where the per capita annual income is only $250.

God: All That Matters by Mark Vernon (Hodder, £7.99) This entry in a confidently subtitled new series of short introductions is a light-footed scoot through theologies both ancient and (post)modern.

A one-hour trip between the Kyrgyz cities of Osh, an ancient trading post, and Jalalabad now takes four hours -- the main road cuts through Uzbek territory, and side roads are winding and small.

In a metaphorical sense that is what Islamist militants apparently linked to al-Qaeda who now control the ancient trading-post in northern Mali have now unleashed on the city.