Sentence examples for position once held from inspiring English sources

To run against Ms. Kestenbaum, the party chose Angelina M. Cullin, the town's elected tax collector, a position once held by Mr. D'Amato.

On the strength of the book, in 1929 Auerbach was appointed professor of Romance philology at the University of Marburg, assuming the position once held by Spitzer, who was now at the University of Cologne.

And Samantha Ketcham ran to become the first woman to be A&M's yell leader — a position once held by Gov. Rick Perry — and briefly appeared to have made it into a runoff.

Correction: October 25 , 2002 Friday An article on Wednesday about President Bush's campaigning on behalf of Republican candidates misstated the White House position once held by John Podesta, who commented on the political risk to President Bush.

An article on Jan . 8about major figures in the power struggle in Israel after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke misstated a position once held by Benjamin Netanyahu, a former prime minister and the leader of the Likud Party.

(Kunkel, meanwhile, has become the hot young white male writer of the moment, a position once held by Dave Eggers. Now is probably the time to disclose that Kunkel's literary agent, who was once Eggers's, is also mine).

The Kurds nervously watch Iraqi troops reoccupy positions once held by Saddam Hussein's army.

But over the last 10 years, about 200 black politicians have won positions once held by whites in legislatures and city halls in states like New Hampshire, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Focusing on the instrumental measurement of crime figures won't return the office of constable to the position it once held in Britain.

The team, El Tri, referring to the team's colors of green, red and white, responded to Aguirre's return to the position he once held.

But after a decade in the wilderness, he now wants to get Sudan back into the good graces of the United States, a position it once held.