Sentence examples for historical appointment from inspiring English sources

So Hopson was introduced Tuesday by Brown, who said, "Today's historical appointment will require us to walk hand in hand to disrupt naysayers wedded to a racist past".

Beyond Black women's representation in elected office, 2015 is likely to bring a historical appointment of the first Black woman attorney general of the United States.

He is James B. Duke Professor of English and Historical Theology, with appointments both in the English Department and the Divinity School.

He is also currently working with Sarah Beckwith on a special issue of JMEMS on "Conversion: medieval and early modern". David Aers is the James B. Duke Professor of English and Historical Theology with appointments in both the English Department and in the Divinity School.

He argued from historical examples that appointments made at the Church's instigation were partisan and disastrous, and that the Crown and prime minister were able to take an unbiased view in the national interest.

Because of his liberal theological views, especially with respect to the validity of the historical Christian creeds, his appointment to the post at Berlin was opposed by the Evangelical Church of Prussia.

Nonetheless, initial reactions underline the historical significance of this appointment: Bergoglio is the first Latin American – or non-European – in the Catholic Church's two thousand year history to be selected as pope.

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His work in this field and his other art historical credentials led to his appointment in 1968 as director of the Museum of Modern Art.

In historical terms, Mr. Vandevelde's appointment -- agreed on late last night and announced today -- is a big shift in corporate culture for an organization that until the premature departure last June of Sir Richard Greenbury, its previous executive chairman, had been run by a coterie of longtime Marks & Spencer executives.

For example, the consequences of historical events, such as the appointment of a Fed chair, are, at least in part, unique.