Sentence examples for in which capacity from inspiring English sources

In 1872 James was appointed instructor in physiology at Harvard College, in which capacity he served until 1876.

Concurrently he served as the president of the American Rocket Society, in which capacity he advocated for the formation of what would eventually become NASA.

The Dutchman's previous experience has been as an assistant or as a skills coach – in which capacity he worked with Murphy at Tottenham under Martin Jol.

George Washington appointed Jay the country's first chief justice, in which capacity he was instrumental in shaping Supreme Court procedures in its formative years.

The following month he became a deputy to the National Convention, in which capacity he voted for Louis XVI's death without reprieve.

In 1928 Raskob left General Motors to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in which capacity he ran Alfred E. Smith's unsuccessful campaign for president.

In 1945 President Harry S. Truman appointed him attorney general, in which capacity he gained a reputation for vigorous antisubversive programs and the broadening of FBI powers.

In the early 1960s, he was head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the United States, in which capacity he met Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara on several occasions.

One reporter in this latter category was Matthew Boyle, a hard-charging muckraker who now works for Breitbart, in which capacity he has emerged as a persistent critic of Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House.

In the 1980s, he headed Libya's external security organisation, in which capacity he was said to have recruited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, in which 270 people were killed.

Gardiner, who became the president of the Bach archives in Leipzig in 2014 – in which capacity he oversaw the ceremony of the painting's return – still believes the portrait has many secrets to reveal.