Sentence examples for obtained an appointment from inspiring English sources

When Sherman was 16, Ewing obtained an appointment to West Point for him.

Comstock obtained an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, through the office of U.S. Representative Horace Mann in 1851.

In the fall of 1932, Bethe obtained an appointment at the University of Tübingen as an acting assistant professor of theoretical physics.

As a young man Bodenstedt obtained an appointment as head of a school in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), where he made a study of Persian literature.

Born into the Welsh gentry, Jeffreys was admitted to the bar in 1668, and in 1677 he obtained an appointment as solicitor general to Charles II's Roman Catholic brother James, duke of York (later James II).

He obtained an appointment as U.S. chargé d'affaires to Central America through the influence of President Martin Van Buren, and in 1839, accompanied by Catherwood, he went to Central America, then torn by political upheaval and civil war.

Back home in Seattle, we were able to obtain an appointment for additional visa pages promptly.

For many months he tried to obtain an appointment with L. B. Mayer, but Mayer was always too busy to see him.

He used the influence of his younger brother, Senator John Sherman, to obtain an appointment in the U.S. Army as a colonel in May 1861.

Three GPs said that they never referred pediatric patients to a child neurologist because waiting period to obtain an appointment consultation was too long.

Patients with a non-scheduled urgent consultation can usually obtain an appointment within 24 72 h with their own doctor; otherwise, they can be visited the same day by another doctor from the center.