Sentence examples for brief terms from inspiring English sources

Only 44 women have served in the history of the Senate, and many of them had very brief terms.

The organization has since helped to put about twenty others in jail, though often for brief terms.

In brief terms, the threshold level is currently set at $8 billion in gross notional swap dealing activity.

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.

After brief terms as housing minister (2001) and minister for criminal justice (2002 03), on June 12 , 2003 Falconer was named to the post of lord chancellor.

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).

Gerald Ford got it after his brief term ended.

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

The replacement kings died or were put to death after their brief term of office.

Reading's brief term (August November 1931) as foreign secretary in James Ramsay MacDonald's coalition government was uneventful.

His brief term as president ended with the United States invasion that ousted Mr. Noriega.