Sentence examples for presidencies from inspiring English sources

Mr Fenton has little time for that argument, pointing out that no organisation that pays the government a peppercorn rent of £1 for 999 years for its elegant quarters in Burlington House can be described as independent.The RA's reputation between 1966 and 1984 revived during the presidencies of Sir Thomas Monnington and Sir Hugh Casson all presidents are routinely knighted.

Under Lisbon the European Council is to gain a semi-permanent president, to replace the system of rotating presidencies.

The president of the council was created, but rotating presidencies were preserved anyway for most ministerial councils.

Federalists are pleased that they have preserved the possibility of eventually merging the presidencies of the commission and the council, so creating a single president of Europe.And the rest of the institutional stuff?Probably the biggest single issue for the small countries was that every country should retain the right to have its own commissioner.

Several past Luxembourg presidencies have been highly successful, notably the 1985 one run by Jacques Santer, now president of the European Commission, which produced the Single European Act.

We've seen the Summers movie before, through several presidencies, whereas Yellen has yet to take a starring role.

Usually, that is the difficult bit: the choice of Commission president is part of a wider bargain including the top economic portfolios on the Commission, the presidencies of the Eurogroup and the European Council, and the job of High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

He or she would serve for several years, overseeing delivery of the Union's strategic agenda and communicating a sense of purpose to Europe's citizens.For the functional councils, there should be "team presidencies" whereby a group of member states would each chair, say, two of the councils for two to three years.

War presidencies do not fail because they are ambushed by domestic troubles; they rise above them.

She won kudos for her presidencies of the European Union and the G8 club of rich countries in 2007.

More outrageously still, many of those benefiting from this flow of cash managed successfully to lobby Congress and the White House to reject reforms that could have stemmed some of the abuse.When such excesses have occurred in the past, there has been a political backlash to exploit the popular anger, as under the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the 1900s.