Sentence examples for be principal for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Vanderhoek said he planned to be principal for at least four years.

The same types of offerings generally soar: the private dinner prepared by a superstar chef (usually someone like Eric Ripert or Daniel Boulud), the coveted bottle of Champagne or -- that blockbuster of school auctions -- the chance for a child to be principal for a day.

She has been principal for only four months, but already the changes are visible.

"We're in a war against poverty," said Mrs. Brogan, who has been principal for seven years.

In the poor rural K-8 school where I was principal for 12 years, we rarely held children back.

In 1997, for instance, he was "principal for a day" at a public school in an impoverished area of the Bronx.

Mr. Leggett, who has been principal for 21 years, and his five third-grade teachers believe none of the 23 should be held back.

"We follow the same guidelines as the science club, the math club and the English club," said Mr. O'Neal, who has been principal for nine years.

Stanislaus of the Christian Brothers, from 1944 to 1962, he taught in various New York City schools including St. Thomas Apostle in Harlem, where he was Principal for 3 years.

The intermediate school where Mr. Johnson had been principal for eight years, I.S. 229, was a located a few miles from P.S. 53.

-JOEL STEIN, in Time, after being "Principal for a Day" at the High School for Arts and Business in Queens, New York.