Sentence examples for long inaugural from inspiring English sources

One head is chock-a-block with his first long inaugural address (the longest in history) and the other with his second, the shortest inaugural address in history.

William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia a month after taking office which developed out of a cold he caught giving a super long inaugural address that no one could actually hear because microphones didn't exist yet.

The return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to Durham this summer was seen by many as the ideal moment, so a month-long inaugural festival will take place throughout June in hundreds of venues from the Tweed to the Tees.

As a result of such prolonged exposure to the bitter cold, Harrison promptly caught pneumonia, and died a month later, thereby achieving the double and ironic distinction of the longest inaugural address, and the shortest American presidency.

His speech was brief – half as long as that of his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who holds the record for the longest inaugural address.

He wore neither an overcoat nor hat, rode on horseback to the ceremony rather than in the closed carriage that had been offered him, and delivered the longest inaugural address in American history.

The reason: the museum's long anticipated inaugural show has been suspended due to a disagreement between the museum's board and its director.

Mr. Chen's long-anticipated inaugural speech today was almost an anticlimax, devoted mainly to calls for domestic reconciliation, cleaner politics and economic issues.

After a two-hour debate, the longest since the inaugural prize in 2005, I was voted down two to one.

+ Housed in an abandoned church in Detroit, L.A.-based gallery Moran Bondaroff is launching a year-long residency with inaugural exhibition, War Games.

Either way, the fans have come a long way since that inaugural season.