Sentence examples for post of speaker from inspiring English sources

Iraqi politicians are also fighting over the post of speaker of Parliament.

Elected to the provincial assembly in 1756, he occupied the powerful post of speaker from 1766 to 1775.

The vote in his Baghdad district sets him up to run for the powerful post of speaker.

Eduardo Cunha, a crafty conservative congressman from Rio de Janeiro, crushed the PT candidate to win for the PMDB the powerful post of Speaker of the lower house.

Mr. Rafsanjani was expected to be nominated by hard-line legislators for the influential post of speaker of the Parliament that convenes on Saturday.

I find this work extremely rewarding and I believe that it stands me in good stead to put myself forward for the post of Speaker.

Even the post of deputy speaker was offered to the opposition.

The post of Parliament speaker, now held by a Sunni, is seen as the least prestigious; no one really wants that.

Thatcher's dislike denied him the chief's job or a ministerial appointment that year, so he shifted to the post of deputy speaker.

Simon Burns declared he would be a candidate for the post of deputy speaker under John Bercow, hours after controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries threw her hat into the ring.

Second, another feminist activist, Wanda Nowicka, had entered parliament several months earlier and had been appointed to the post of deputy speaker.