Sentence examples for position of lord from inspiring English sources

The position of lord mayor is an ancient, honorary job that involves riding in a coach wearing a big hat, eating a great many dinners and proposing a lot of toasts.

Lloyds of London appointing their first female chief executive, Inga Beale and we now have the second woman ever to hold the position of Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf.

For reasons that are not clear, Rochester was removed from the Treasury in 1684 but was given the lord lieutenancy of Ireland and the relatively powerless position of lord president of the Council.

Indeed, many of the schemes referenced in your article were in development long before Michael Bear was even elected to the Court of Common Council, never mind to the position of lord mayor.

The unrelated position of lord mayor, dating from 1215, is an appointive office filled by a a business leader to oversee the City of London financial center for a year at a time.

"What I hope to do there is to give them an insight into what it's like to be lord mayor and to connect the position of lord mayor to young girls across the city so hopefully one of those girls you might see them as a future lord mayor of the city".

It is traditional that the position of the Lord Mayor alternates between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party annually and that the Lord Mayor chooses the Deputy Lord Mayor.

Although he ultimately failed to abolish the position of the lord chancellor, it was redefined by constitutional reform in 2006: the lord chief justice took over many of the judicial aspects of the role, and the lord chancellor was no longer to serve as speaker of the House of Lords.

Cost-cutting councillors are set to axe the position of deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds in a bid to save £100,000, reports the YEP.

It was not long before he became a judge and eventually sat in the high court, reaching the position of deputy lord chief justice.

Another popular number is Sir Joseph's song "When I was a Lad", recounting the meteoric rise of his career, which bears similarities to that of W. H. Smith, the civilian news entrepreneur who had risen to the position of First Lord of the Admiralty in 1877.