Sentence examples for minor position from inspiring English sources

Mr. O'Connor is now minister of revenue, a relatively minor position.

By 1858 he had acquired a minor position at the Harvard University observatory, where he did research and wrote papers.

Climate change and renewable energy - although identified as crucial concerns - are relegated to a relative minor position.

Frum has been frog-marched from his Kremlin office and exiled to a minor position in Nobuxograd.

He said Mr. Gordon's firm had "forged its way strictly on the merits from a minor position in 1931 to that of one of the country's leading underwriters".

He accepted a minor position at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., in 1889 and within a year was appointed associate in mathematics at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

In consequence, the UK today possesses relatively minor positions in industries where it once owned major strongholds: steel, cars, shipbuilding, civil aviation, chemicals, engineering, computing and so on.

Mr. Bouazzi of the Progressive Democratic Party, which has only about a thousand members, said that after decades under Mr. Ben Ali's one-party rule the opposition had miscalculated in settling for only relatively minor positions in the unity government.

Still, a low-level insurgency could drag on for years yet.Since the fall of the fundamentalists in 2001, ex-Taliban like Mullah Rockety have quietly slipped back into minor positions of authority across Afghanistan's east and south.

All important positions within the bureaucracy were staffed with officials imported from France; even in the 1930s, after several periods of reforms and concessions to local nationalist sentiment, Vietnamese officials were employed only in minor positions and at very low salaries, and the country was still administered along the lines laid down by Doumer.

One school, he told the daily newspaper Le Figaro, "was in favor of a statute for the Jews which would protect 'the good French Jews,' that is, those who were assimilated and who would have had the right to hold minor positions, and the other, which was openly racist and anti-Semitic".