Sentence examples for chair held by from inspiring English sources

Funds for the education chair, held by Margaret MacVicar at the time of her death, have been used to support the MacVicar Faculty Fellowship program.

In 2004, he made a gift to endow the Michael R. Klein Professorship of Law, a chair held by Professor Randall L. Kennedy.

As Buckley surely knows, the chair held by a faculty member has nothing to do with his or her views, and he need not be gratuitous to look wise.

No overt sexuality is onstage at this point, but the microphone becomes an aural voyeur to Ms. Amarante, who shrieks when whirled on a chair held by a partner.

The Heinz Nixdorf Chair was the third chair held by Siebert at the Bologna Center.

After months of advance hoopla, King entered the Houston Astrodome like Cleopatra, carried aloft in a chair held by four bare-chested musclemen dressed like ancient slaves.

Belisarius was also named consul ordinarius for the year 535, allowing him to celebrate a second triumphal procession, being carried through the streets seated on his consular curule chair, held aloft by Vandal warriors, distributing largesse to the populace from his share of the war booty.

Nine years later, he ascended to the Lucasian chair of mathematics -- Isaac Newton's chair, lately held by Stephen Hawking.

Harvard rescued him with the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a chair originally held by John Quincy Adams.

In the new House, California figured to lose several important chairmanships and the speaker's chair, now held by Nancy Pelosi.

In 1982 he was awarded the endowed chair previously held by M.H. Abrams (the Class of 1916 Professor of English).