Sentence examples for held chairs from inspiring English sources

He held chairs at the London School of Economics (1947 57) and at Cambridge (1957 68).

About 5,000 students passed through his classrooms; 24 of his pupils held chairs of arts or theology at Salamanca; and in 1548 two also held chairs of St. Thomas Aquinas at Alcalá, the rival university.

He held Chairs in Contemporary (Church) History and European Studies at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Dresden.

Down from the house, beyond the outdoor shower, a wooden platform held chairs and a hammock angled to catch the morning sun.

Natta took his doctorate in chemical engineering at Milan Polytechnic (1924) and held chairs in chemistry at the universities of Pavia, Rome, and Turin before returning to the Polytechnic as professor and research director of industrial chemistry (1938).

He previously held Chairs in Business Ethics at the Université de Montréal and the University of British Columbia, and before that taught at the University of Ottawa and the University of Western Ontario.

A lively discussion followed on the value and pleasure of letting husbands pour wine, open car doors and hold chairs.

The meeting was held in a ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel, on Canal Street, which can hold chairs for about three hundred people.

Gelfond taught mathematics at the Moscow Technological College (1929 30) and, from 1931, at Moscow State University, at various times holding chairs of analysis, number theory, and history of mathematics.

Sassen, a specialist on the global economy, holds chairs in sociology at the University of Chicago and in political economy at the LSE.

You can mentally curse your teacher for making you hold Chair Pose for too long, but that doesn't mean you're "bad" at yoga.