Sentence examples for brief term in from inspiring English sources

After a brief term in the U.S. Senate (1800 03), he ended his public career.

He is arrested after a speech against the government, spends a brief term in jail, & is then prevented from going on with law school.

US president Barack Obama has laid out his legacy on one of the issues that will define the world long after his brief term in power is over.

She said she had served a brief term in a Federal prison in Lexington, Ky., a term, the authorities said, that lasted 120 days, for transporting forged securities.

During Mr Morsi's brief term in office, they often protested against what they saw as Brotherhood efforts to curtail judicial independence.

After a brief term in the prefectorial administration, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from the Eure-et-Loir département (1885).

The East German MfS has been disbanded, and a few of its leaders have been tried in public and sentenced to brief terms in prison.

He passed his youth in Italy and did not go to France until 1848, when he served two brief terms in the Assembly as representative for Corsica (1848) and for the Seine (1849).

Mr. Berlusconi, who is 75, served his first brief term as prime minister in 1994, returned for several years starting in 2001 and began his latest term in 2008.

After a brief term of service (1912 13) in the imperial Russian army, Lipchitz returned to Paris.

He was well educated in languages and Oriental culture, and he served as secretary to the writer and statesman Alexis de Tocqueville during the latter's brief term as foreign minister in 1849.