Sentence examples for being moved sideways from inspiring English sources

And after the riot, instead of being moved sideways, as the prison service suggested, O'Friel dropped two rungs to govern a category C prison, Risley – known as "Grisley Risley" after a large number of prisoners had committed suicide at the Cheshire jail.

He was moved sideways into another role.

In May 1980 Khalkhali was moved sideways and appointed to head an anti-narcotic campaign.

After a couple of years, she was moved sideways to the Department for Constitutional Affairs, which became the Ministry of Justice.

The able, dynamic chief of staff, Marshal Nikolay Ogarkov, was moved sideways and replaced by Marshal Sergey Akhromeyev, another formidable soldier.

Andrew Robathan, a longstanding supporter of Cameron, is moved sideways from the Ministry of Defence to replace Penning at the Northern Ireland Office.

He was moved sideways and downwards by Cameron but is thought to still hanker after a big job.

"Not one person has lost their job over this – instead they have been promoted and some people have been moved sideways," he said.

As parliamentary secretary for agriculture from 1955, he made a poor start, and was moved sideways by Macmillan to the Ministry of Works in 1957.

ElBaradei's advisers from Expo were moved sideways in the organisation, and the department's functions have been absorbed by the director-general's office.

Richard Sambrook, the director of BBC News during the Gilligan affair, was moved sideways to the job of director of BBC global news in July 2004.