A former Navy SEAL I know, for example, once applied for a managerial position at Home Depot.
Reed has more than once applied for reinstatement into the union but each time he has been rebuffed.
I once applied for a Masters course but was denied entry because I refused to join the Ba'ath party.
He said that he had once applied for a position for which he was well qualified, but that he lost out to the son of a government minister.
Discussing his reasons for turning from philosophy (Foster Wallace once applied for graduate studies in the field) and toward writing, he says, " 'Cause see, by this time, my ego's all invested in the writing, right?
He once applied for and then turned down an Ofsted inspector post, and has since thrown his weight behind Instead because he is convinced school leaders are the people best-placed to drive school improvement.
He then enraptured the audience – mainly young but with a smattering of greybeards – with his account of how he had once applied for the job of the government's "drugs tsar" at a salary of £73,000 a year.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Leconte de Lisle, Georges Bataille and Anatole France were librarians, and Proust once applied for a post as an unpaid assistant in the Mazarine, one of his periodic half-hearted attempts to prove to his father that he could hold down a job.
Once applied for treating syngeneic murine melanoma tumors, our oncolytic prime-boost vaccination protocol involving Maraba MG1 dramatically extended median survival and allowed complete remission in more than 20% of the animals treated.
Todd Hartley once applied for a Genius Grant but misspelled "Genius".
Dozens of Secret Service agents were disciplined last year over leaking information that Chaffetz ― who had been investigating the agency's security failures ― once applied for a job there. .
