Sentence examples for positions of importance from inspiring English sources

"Many of their employees have been here for extended periods of time and have secured positions of importance.

SURVIVOR: SELMA -- Blacks versus whites, competing for cash and positions of importance; tactics include affirmative action and voter fraud.

"It is good to have younger people moving into positions of importance at organizations like that," said Wendy Beale Needham, an auto analyst at Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette

Arrested in 2001 shortly after 9/11 (and thus hardly written about even at the time), Montes spent seventeen years sending secrets to Havana while simultaneously ascending to positions of importance within the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.

He appointed moderates to positions of importance, as when he made James Baker III, Bush's close associate, his first chief of staff, rather than the far more ideological Edwin Meese III, his former chief of staff from California.

Like Picasso, narcissists often rise to positions of importance in art, business, and other endeavors, suggesting that they have ability and ideas that others do not.

In the 6th century the western Greek colonies claimed a position of importance in the history of Greek art.

"None of the scenarios I'm painting has Napster being in a position of importance for more than a couple of months," Mr. Scheirer said.

The sexual drive pushes the students in the direction of religion, and the mullahs latch on to them to maintain their position of importance".

After 36 years in the priesthood for a "New York City boy" -- born at Riverside Drive and 85th Street -- Monsignor Kavanagh ended up in a position of importance in the archdiocese.

During the high Classical period, Athens resumed a position of importance as an artistic centre of the Greek world after years of inactivity.