Sentence examples for leave a position from inspiring English sources

leave a position with honor even as he loses a long-fought battle.

"When anyone is asked to leave a position, that is the normal response," he said.

Everyone watches him for signals about the future and wonders if he is really going to leave a position he has and is handling so skillfully.

"I've always thought you should leave a position two years before you stop enjoying it, not two years after you've stopped enjoying it," he said.

I truly believe that at age 65, whether you go fishing or become a writer or a painter or a craftsman, you should leave a position open for a younger person.

Coming from the UK, where a teacher had to give seven weeks' notice to leave a position, it came as a bit of a Europhilic shock to start a job teaching in a US charter school with an "at-will" contract that could be terminated by either party at any time.

She was new to the world of food service, having recently left a position with the Otis Elevator Company.

Paul Maritz, Pivotal's chief executive, who long held senior positions at Microsoft, left a position as chief executive at VMware to organize and run Pivotal.

To take up the PPR proposal to expand his fledgling house globally, in November he left a position working with Donatella Versace on the Versus line.

James Rafferty left a position as the chef at Boughalem in Greenwich Village to become a private chef for a magazine publisher in New York City.

Enrique Wilson hit a liner to left, a position Lance Johnson was manning for the first time since Sept. 10, 1990, and the ball glanced off Johnson's glove.