Sentence examples for position of acting from inspiring English sources

ʿAbd Rabbuh Manṣūr Hadī took the position of acting president during Ṣāliḥ's absence.

"I'd rather not be in the position of acting as a lame duck or a pretender," he said.

Stephen Knight, for example, came from energy giant SSE, where he held the position of acting chief marketing officer.

That would put the university in the position of acting as a de facto censor of communal speech.

Prosecutors say the man the Gotti family calls Uncle Peter then took the position of acting boss.

He took on the position of acting director general for five months until Mark Thompson was appointed to the role.

Another factor, too, is the exalted position of priests, acting "in persona Christi" — in the person of Christ.

This has also become the official position of the acting commander of Mr Mozgovoi's "Ghost" battalion, Yuri Shevchenko.

We run a k-shell decomposition27 to identify the network position of users acting as seeds of the most successful chains.

Why not take the courtship ritual literally?" In S & M, performance is a way of reclaiming a position of vulnerability — acting it out, playing on it like a jungle gym.

By interjecting politics into the FDA drug review process, Secretary Sebelius placed the president in the unenviable position of not acting in the best interest of women's health.