Sentence examples for appointed as a peer from inspiring English sources

She had been appointed as a peer in 1999 while on a secondment to the home office.

Other honours Awarded MBE in 1993; won Helen Rollason Award for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity at BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2000; awarded OBE in 2000; received damehood in 2005; appointed as a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords by the Lords Appointment Commission on 5 February.

For Lord Scriven, the former leader of Sheffield City Council who stood in the 2010 general election, 7 May will be the first time he has not voted at a general election having been appointed as a Liberal Democrat life peer in 2014.

But the committee said if there were to be elections it should be to a 450-member House of Lords, with 20% of peers appointed "as a means of preserving expertise and placing its mandate on a different footing from that of the Commons".

Lord Green, who used to run HSBC, was made a Conservative peer in 2010 and appointed as a trade minister eight months after HMRC received the leaked files.

UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) Baroness Jolly has been appointed as a Whip in the @UKHouseofLords #reshuffle October 7, 2013 Judith Jolly is a Lib Dem peer.

Appointed as a Member of the New York State Commission on the Board of Parole.

In 1953, he was appointed as a director of the zoology research unit of CAS.

Meantime, he was also appointed as a professor in psychology and aesthetics at Yunnan University, School of Humanities and Law.

Every sequence variation was appointed as a single polymorphism supposed as a single evolutionary event independently as the same weight.

Thomas Murray, a Presbyterian Scot, was appointed as a tutor.