Sentence examples for he acted as assistant from inspiring English sources

In 1960 Schorske moved to a professorship at the University of California at Berkeley, where he acted as assistant to the chancellor on faculty development.

He is a likeable and engaging character but his record with Leeds must have been tarnished by the fact that he acted as assistant during Peter Reid's inept tenure, one that made the situation irretrievable for Gray.

He was for many years an enthusiastic lecturer for Swan Hellenic Cruises and after his retirement in 1994 he acted as assistant bishop in the diocese of Ripon until 2014.

He had an opportunity to apply Shelford's ideas in 1921, when, still an undergraduate, he acted as assistant to Julian Huxley on the University of Oxford expedition to Spitsbergen; at this time he was given a free hand in making an ecological survey of local animal life.

Before becoming a director himself, Miller worked for a number of noted new wave directors: he acted as assistant director on Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, before becoming production manager for a string of films by François Truffaut, including Bed and Board, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H.

From 1974 for eight years she acted as assistant director of the new opera centre in Athens, working with her great friend Christos Lambrakis.

After two years at Bloomfield Road, he then acted as assistant to Howard Wilkinson with England Under-21s before joining Norwich as Bryan Hamilton's assistant.

Scrivener's departure brings to an end a two-year association with Edinburgh, where he acted as an assistant coach specialising in defence.

During most of that time he acted as Wundt's assistant.

He also came into closer contact with the Holyoake circle, where he acted as an unpaid assistant in the group's publishing activities.

He returned home at 19, and acted as assistant trainer to his father until the latter's sudden death in 1943.