Sentence examples for earning a position in from inspiring English sources

In the likely event of a run-off however, that might be enough to make him well-placed to help someone else, most likely Abdullah Abdullah, another former comrade from the Northern Alliance, and one of the election's two front-runners.That could lead to Mr Sayyaf earning a position in the next president's cabinet, which has many Western diplomats feeling worried.

Gog and Magog have thus earned a position in apocalyptic literature over the centuries.

"The club will now focus attention on appointing a new manager to take it forward in the final month of the campaign in a bid to earn a position in the top five".

Oswald told his wife he planned to hijack an airliner to Havana, suggesting, as the summer progressed, that he might even earn a position in Castro's government.

He earned a position in the top-10 in the American League in both games played and at bats in 1956 and 1958, as well as leading the AL in sacrifice flies and times grounded into double plays in 1958.

He earned a position at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1998 but because his family was poor, they had to borrow $340 to cover tuition costs.

In the words of scholar Richard B. Jewell, "The supreme irony of RKO's existence is that the studio earned a position of lasting importance in cinema history largely because of its extraordinarily unstable history.

During the second Iraq War, the Patriot established a perfect record by intercepting and destroying every enemy missile it targeted, earning it a position in the arsenals now protecting Japan, Turkey, and 10 other nations.

It was a five-hour drive between the two cities, but that was better than the distance between them when Mr. Scheinert relocated again to Washington in 2010, first to get his Master of Laws degree at Georgetown and then to work at the Treasury Department, having earned a position as a policy adviser in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.

She traveled to New York City in 1939 to study singing and in 1940 earned a position with the studio choral and ensemble groups on the CBS radio network.

His high standing earned him a position in the artillery, and he served in both the Seminole and Mexican wars.