Sentence examples for its directorship from inspiring English sources

In 1812 the museum was relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, and Peale relinquished its directorship to his son Rubens.

In the fall of '55, when L'Express became a daily... Mauriac quit Figaro and its directorship to help return Mendes to power.

To help make the right choices some beginning faculty ask more senior colleagues in their department to also interview prospective students, suggests Giacomo Cavalli, senior principal investigator at the Institute of Human Genetics in Montpellier, France, who will be assuming its directorship in January.

Its artistic directorship has just floated some of the most exciting new initiatives to hit the London theatre scene in quite some time.

At the end of the day, Gay Inc. sees its source of jobs in Democratic administrations, its executive directorships with six-figure salaries, its charity balls and other celebrity-driven hoopla as more important than gay rights.

Still, Ms. Baker emphasized that because Bayreuth is a six-week summer festival, Mr. Mortier was contractually free to accept its co-directorship.

There is a faintly bittersweet atmosphere at the Santa Fe Opera this summer, the company's 44th season and its last under the directorship of its founder, John Crosby.

The city's film festival may have had its troubles, but the book festival has taken a large leap forward with its change in directorship in 2009.

Dennis Russell Davies, the orchestra's founding conductor and now its conductor laureate, relinquished his directorship in 2002, after 25 seasons, to focus more on his commitments in Europe.

Under his directorship, Tate Modern staged some of its most popular exhibitions including Henri Matisse: The Cut Outs last year and a retrospective of Damien Hirst's work in 2012.

But the board was so sure of its choice that just one year into his directorship, Mr. Welser-Möst's contract was extended through 2012, an uncommonly long appointment in the orchestra world.