Sentence examples for preceding secretary from inspiring English sources

Violent clashes continued in the week preceding Secretary Clinton's arrival.

Clinton was preceded as secretary of state by Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice, and Madam Secretary reflects aspects of their CVs (both, like McCord, were recruited to politics from academia) and memoirs.

She precedes the secretary by two hours at the airport to check out the white-and-blue trimmed Boeing 757 jet.

All this made it thoroughly bizarre that it took more than 15 minutes before Lincoln, preceded by Secretary of State William H. Seward, finally came ambling into the reception room that morning.

William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, preceded Mr Juppé by only a few days.

In the preceding two months, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had visited Capitol Hill to explain that the financial system was on the verge of collapse.

In 2013, the home secretary gave evidence that in the four preceding years, 63 suspected child sexual offenders, 27 suspected rapists and 44 suspected murderers were brought back from EU countries to face trial.

Secretary James McInerney reviewed the council actions over the preceding year and the report is summarized below.

− Secretary Manyuan Long reviewed the council actions over the preceding year, summarized here: Call to order.

− Secretary Manyuan Long reviewed the council actions over the preceding year, summarized here: Election of SMBE officers.

Mr. Donilon was preceded to Beijing by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of State John Kerry and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey.