Sentence examples for held an office from inspiring English sources
He never wrote a book, or held an office.
Hayes's Treasury Secretary, John Sherman, wrote, in amazement of Arthur's sudden prominence, "He never held an office except the one he was removed from".
Part of the balancing act was because they held an office, they're not employed, and they have a job for 30 or now 35 years, provided they don't misbehave or are not performing".
By February 2008 one survey had rated his popularity 11 points below that of Prime Minister François Fillon, who held an office that seemed almost designed to take the flak for problems that the president would be expected to float above.
The outcome cannot have been made easier by the fact that Mr. Katsav, 54, was a relatively obscure figure who had never held an office more weighty than tourism minister and whose name would almost certainly draw blanks in the chancelleries and palaces around the world where Mr. Peres's visits have become a fixture.
If you have held an office in a student scientific professional group, you have held a leadership position.
He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility".
He had lived in Ingolstadt for many years, holding an office job with the Audi automobile company.
She had provoked the by-election by resigning her seat in a controversy over her apparently breaking rules by holding an "office of profit"—heading a National Advisory Council.
After that failed, the courts took up a thin-looking case in which the president is accused of unconstitutionally holding an office for profit.
