Sentence examples for position formerly held by from inspiring English sources

Eaves is in his second season at a position formerly held by the legendary coaches Jeff Sauer and Bob Johnson.

JPMorgan Chase & Company has named Tom Lee chief United States equity strategist, filling the position formerly held by Abhijit Chakrabortti who has joined Morgan Stanley.

DAVID BOTSTEIN will become director of Princeton University's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in July, taking over the position formerly held by Princeton's president, SHIRLEY M. TILGHMAN.

Lin is the first Chinese citizen to fill the post of chief economist at the World Bank, a position formerly held by Joseph Stiglitz, Larry Summers, and other influential Western scholars.

An article on Feb. 4 about a pending court case over whether sellers at auctions in New York State should remain anonymous misidentified a position formerly held by a California lawyer quoted in the article who has represented sellers.

After an ill-fated move to a court position in Courland, he returned to Leipzig, becoming from 1789 to 1800 the cantor of the Thomasschule, a position formerly held by J.S. Bach.

In recent years, a wave of retirements and untimely deaths has swept many new directors into positions formerly held by figures whose names had become synonymous with their institutions.

The ANC took over the cabinet positions formerly held by the National Party, with Mbeki becoming sole Deputy President.

From 1804 to 1811 he was chapelmaster to the Esterházy family (a post formerly held by Haydn).

Last year, its economy became the sixth largest in the world, a spot formerly held by France.

Mr. Duffy, the chief executive, will be chairman, a post formerly held by Joseph Berry, who was killed.