Sentence examples for position as master from inspiring English sources

In August, Johnson was denied a position as master of the Appleby Grammar School because a Master's degree from Oxford or Cambridge was required.

Held is taking up a new position as master of University College and chair of politics and international relations at Durham University.

Eton and Sandhurst-educated, Ross assumed control of the planning after leaving his position as master of the Prince of Wales's household in 2007.

In 1789 Boston's public schools were reorganized, and Bingham was offered a position as master of one of three new Reading Schools.

Newton proved himself equally intolerant of chicanery, when, in his waning years, he took a position as Master of the Mint.

When one of those students insisted to Nicholas (in an exchange caught on video) that "in [his] position as master" it was his "job" to create not just an intellectual space but "a place of comfort and home," she was simply insisting on the story that Yale itself spun her.

Promotion to lieutenant was not automatic, and many midshipmen took positions as master's mates for an increase in pay and responsibility aboard ship.

A L Kennedy This year No Great Mischief (Cape) made Alistair MacLeod's position as a master of prose even more firmly assured.

His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927 and thoroughly established with the stories in Winner Take Nothing in 1933.

In 1833, Wagner's brother Albert managed to obtain for him a position as choir master at the theatre in Würzburg.

During the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, he briefly returned to his former position as barrack master and commander of the city of Philadelphia.