Sentence examples for high offices from inspiring English sources

Members of the local nobility were appointed to high offices.

Commuters no longer rode into the city only to be made unhappy in high offices.

Twenty years on, high offices might at last be filled from humble homes.

No similar restrictions were imposed on eligibility for other high offices.

They think it implies easy inheritance of high offices without striving.

Many of the Castilian grandees who were appointed to these high offices undoubtedly strove to live up to these precepts.

Eleanor soon alienated the barons by having her Savoyard and Provençal uncles installed in high offices in England.

Mr. Ling played a central role in moving Youth League veterans into high offices and undermining Mr. Hu's adversaries.

But he has never held high office.

He is safer in high office.

He then accepted high office at court.