Sentence examples for as warden of from inspiring English sources

Later as warden of Sing Sing prison he asked the question that still haunts us: "Shall our prisons be scrap heaps or human repair shops?" Executive Director Elizabeth Gaynes poised questions concerning our prisons: Scrapheaps or Repair Shops?

This was more like Richard Hoggart's role when I knew him as warden of Goldsmiths in the 1970s and 80s.

She returned to Cornell (1900 02) as warden of Sage College, a women's residence; during that time she also taught courses in animal and social psychology.

His father retired as warden of the Blair County Prison in Hollidaysburg, where his mother was head matron, in charge of women inmates.

In 1978 he was made a fellow of the British Academy, and in the year of his retirement as warden of St Antony's – 1987 – he was knighted.

"Of course not," came the prompt reply: "Would you please pass the mustard?" After five years in Cambridge, Nineham returned to Oxford as warden of Keble College.

However, the major source of the family's power was the ap-pointment of successive Percys as wardens of the east March of Scotland.

Henceforth the Percys, now the greatest landowners in Northumberland, became the principal guardians of the northeastern border against the Scots, and successive members of the family served regularly as wardens of the Scottish Marches.

By naming its most worthy servants as wardens of these kingdoms, it keeps them loyal to the throne.

The region's director of counterterrorism was suspended pending an investigation, as were the warden of the prison and several other officials.

As lord warden of the Cinque Ports, he died at Walmer Castle, his favourite residence, from a stroke in 1852.