Sentence examples for influential office from inspiring English sources

We were 12 men and women competing for the largely ceremonial but potentially influential office.

In 1902 these folks hired the young Frank Lloyd Wright to design a new headquarters--and thereby spawned one of the century's most innovative and influential office buildings.

Some helped shape the opposition manifestos through the influential Office for Strengthening Unity, Iran's main student organisation, which has remained critical of the regime.The students at the universities in Tehran who come from the provinces and were living in those dormitories were sent home when the post-election turmoil began and universities shut.

Imagine you're sitting in the Oval Office -- the most influential office in the world -- which reminds you how similar power is to real estate.

As head of cost assessment and program evaluation, a small but influential office that evaluates weapons systems, Fox worked closely with Hagel and his predecessors, earning a reputation for hard-nosed analysis while working on a review of "strategic choices" necessitated by the defense cuts ordered by Congress.

The OMB director is an especially influential position because the office helps the president prepare the annual budget that is submitted to Congress, dealing with a range of issues from energy and defense spending to tax policies.

Personally, while it would be edifying, I'm pretty sure that it would be unfair of me, as a Christian who believes in strict gun control, to occupy an influential position in the office that handed out gun licenses and then simply refuse to hand out any licenses stating my sincere religious beliefs.

"My intention has always been to serve one term, and we have been able to accomplish more than I had ever thought possible," Mr. Landesman said in a statement, mentioning in particular an arts partnership with the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and a more influential research office at the agency.

Eventually he was offered the number two position in the BBC's influential Paris office.

When his one-year term of office ended in late 1964, he was appointed to the influential role of MCC Treasurer, a position he filled until 1976.

The pronouncement from the influential budget office is likely to complicate the arduous task of enacting comprehensive changes this year.