Sentence examples for common tenure from inspiring English sources

Home ownership (including outright ownership) fell four four points from 69%to64%4%, but is still the most common tenure in England and Wales.

The Reverend Peter Mullen, a stalwart London traditionalist, terms common tenure a "destructive bureaucratic swindle" carried out in the interests of "ecclesiastical apparatchiks".Machinations aside, jurisprudence about clerical rights is evolving fast and unpredictably.

A woman priest of the Anglican church which will soon have women bishops could plausibly sue if denied promotion by a traditionalist diocese.The Church of England, sensing the changing times, this year introduced a system called "common tenure" guaranteeing clergy some entitlements, such as a day's rest each week.

It is a common pattern the average tenure for a hospital trust chief executive is under three years, which leads to churn and lurches of strategy.Perhaps that explains why such basic errors continue to be made.

Individualizing the Commons: Changing resource tenure among the Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia, unpublished; Oba, G. 1998.

Crop production is one of the sources of income diversification available to pastoralists, and ironically one of the most important competitors to the pastoralist way of life (Tache, B., 2000: Individualizing the Commons: Changing resource tenure among the Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia, unpublished).

Introduction and expansion of cropping activities in pastoral lands is ongoing in Ethiopia, particularly in the Borana Plateau (Tache, B., 2000: Individualizing the Commons: Changing resource tenure among the Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia, unpublished; Oba, G. 1998: Assessment of indigenous range management knowledge of the Booran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia).

Crop production is one of the major sources of income diversification available to pastoralists and ironically one of the most important competitors to the pastoralist way of life (Tache, B., 2000. Individualizing the Commons: Changing resource tenure among the Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia, unpublished).

Long tenure is common in legislative and Congressional offices.

During Mobutu's tenure, a common joke imagined a constitutional provision — Article 15 — that gave officials the right to solicit bribes and to steal.

In Europe in the 19th century, appointment and promotion frequently depended on personal or political favour, but tenure was common in the lower and middle ranks once an appointment had been made.