Sentence examples for he clings to office from inspiring English sources

Though he clings to office, he's become a useless figurehead.

And she invited the prime minister, Taro Aso, to be the first foreign leader to meet Mr Obama, on February 24th (assuming he clings to office that long).

As long as he clings to office, he keeps the Presidency swamped in a sea of scandal and the American public in a morass of concern and confusion.

Should she cling to office, her tepid enthusiasm for reform would be further cooled by a weakening currency and rising costs for government borrowing making the fiscal adjustment required to stabilise public debt larger and a ratings downgrade likelier.As well as promising to restore fiscal balance, Mr Neves has some fine ideas for political reform.

All three leaders are growing more autocratic the longer they cling to office.

How long he can cling to office is an open question.

Inside, Indonesia's top military men were saluting their commander in chief, President Abdurrahman Wahid, and respectfully declining to carry out his order to impose a state of emergency so that he could cling to office.

He, too, decided he was indispensable, and sought to cling to office beyond the expiration date.

Supporters of Kabila insist he has no intention of clinging to office.

Last week a public television channel broadcast a laughably sycophantic interview with Mr Schmitt, while he was still attempting to cling to office.

What the mayor plays down in his emphasis on the financial crisis is that he was exploring ways to cling to office long before the stock market went into a kamikaze-like dive.