Sentence examples for in successive administrations from inspiring English sources

Long active in Democratic Party affairs, he had advisory roles in successive administrations, including Republican ones.

His reputation for fairness is suggested by the fact that to be one of the three impartial members of the seven-member agency, he had to be acceptable to both labor and management in successive administrations.

While senior Democratic and Republican officials in successive administrations have for many years repeatedly denied that the trillions of dollars of debt Fannie and Freddie issued is guaranteed, the package, if adopted, would bring the Treasury closer than ever to exposing taxpayers to potentially huge new liabilities.

In Spain, successive administrations have made deals with countries in north-west Africa that have pushed the migrants' available ports of departure southward, making the journey to the Canaries even more dangerous and expensive.

His career looked effortless: a Harvard professorship; jobs in four successive administrations, including ambassadorships to India and the United Nations; and finally, in 1977 a Senate seat for his "native" New York.

Suettinger reviewed the history of "strategic ambiguity" in which successive administrations implied but never said they would defend the island.

Since the fall of Mr. Marcos in 1986, successive administrations have been too distracted by politics and adventurism within the military that they failed to put the Philippines, once the region's strongest economy, back on track.

In the successive administrations of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Chrétien became a parliamentary secretary to the prime minister in 1965, a minister of state in 1967, and minister of national revenue in 1968.

During Washington's quarter of century involvement in Southeast Asia, successive administrations never claimed that Vietnam by itself was relevant for U.S. security, but that the failure to stop the advance of communism there was bound to embolden the Soviet Union.

Though U.S. counter-terrorism officials for decades have regarded Iran in particular as a key player in international terrorism, successive administrations have concluded that they had few viable options in dealing with Tehran, said Roger Cressey, a senior counter-terrorism official with the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush administrations who recently left the White House.

"He thinks (this) is an absolutely valid and legitimate and important area of discussion and debate and conversation, and that it is his belief that there need to be structures in place that remain in place for successive administrations," Carney said.