Sentence examples for appointed a position from inspiring English sources

I was recently appointed a position as a National Advisor for the Cornell University Hip-Hop Library.

But she was not elected or appointed to a position that needed Senate confirmation.

After brief stays at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, he was appointed to a position at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

One of the arrest warrants requested, the judge said, was for a man appointed to a position in the Venezuelan government in 2005.

Peach was appointed to a position with customs at Fowey, Cornwall, in 1845, and four years later he went to Scotland.

As the new American and NATO commander in Europe, Admiral Stavridis, 54, becomes the first naval officer appointed to a position previously held by famed ground-warfare generals.

After the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in 1996, Mr. Rabbani was appointed to a position similar to that of prime minister.

He moved to Saïd Business School, Oxford University, as professor of management studies in 1995 and four years later was appointed dean, a position he held until 2006.

Martha N. Hill is appointed dean, a position she will hold through early 2014.

F ellow (n): A student in training appointed to a position granting financial aid and providing for further study in exchange for performing academic duties.

In March of 1809 he was appointed to a position in the Austrian civil service and moved to Vienna, where he was to live for the rest of his life.