Sentence examples for function as president from inspiring English sources

The decision to permit Mr. Kenyatta to skip many long hours of proceedings removes the argument that the trial will seriously impede his ability to function as president.

A Yemeni official said he was still not well enough to function as president, and there was no word on Sunday as to how long his treatment would take or when he might return to Yemen.

His silence has led to widespread speculation that he may be dying or that his illness is so severe that he may not be able to function as president.

The president said he would have been disappointed to lose in 2008 or 2012, but added that he had never doubted whether his Republican rivals in those races, John McCain and Mitt Romney, could function as president or had the knowledge to make government work.

"There have been Republican presidents with whom I disagreed but I didn't have a doubt that they could function as president," said Obama, speaking from a lectern near a portrait of Republican president Theodore Roosevelt in the East Room of the White House.

I submit that I instead explored the burden and significance of his function as President.

I didn't sense any criticism from Aung Moe Zaw, even though I talked to him only a few days after Aung San Suu Kyi had said, assuming an NLD mandate, that she could still function as president--that is, despite being legally barred from taking that position.

"The president, who is already in complete possession and development of all of his functions as president, continues to be president of the country," he said.

Criticism of the inauguration has become more pointed as the school and Dr. Petillo -- who has been functioning as president of the university since his appointment in mid-November -- faces increasing scrutiny from state officials.

Even those who worry about Mr. Klaus's potential role as a spoiler concede that his influence over policy in the European Union will be circumscribed, given his largely symbolic functions as president in the Czech Republic.

An electoral college win is a win, of course, but what's notable about all this is that, in Trump's apparent view (whether by instinct or design is hard to say), it requires telegraphing to his base that he's essentially not functioning as president for other groups.