Sentence examples for proper president from inspiring English sources

He confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish and self-effacing to be a proper president.

The sooner Russia has a proper president, the better.In the meantime, the West can still do some good, even with the Kremlin in a sulk.

Berezovsky's TV station, ORT, launched a furious demonisation of Primakov, claiming he was a puppet of the communists and too old at 70 to be a proper president.

If the Czechoslovaks didn't want him, they would make him king of Poland, to be crowned at the Wawel castle in Cracow.Havel confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish to be a proper president.

But in 1997 when Nato troops finally began looking for war criminals, he slipped across the river Drina from the separatist Bosnian Serb republic to Serbia proper, where President Slobodan Milosevic, the mastermind behind the "ethnic cleansing" of non-Serbs, was ready to offer shelter.

The teller called a bank guard who took her in two and when the writer was leaving the bank, he noticed she was seated alongside the proper vice-president, a young fellow with a crew cut, a tame disposition, and a walnut desk as big as a pingpong table.

Some indications of a pattern are emerging in Florida, where an analysis in one Republican county shows that ballots from its predominantly Democratic precincts were less likely to register a proper vote for president.

Still, Mr. Gates said it was proper for the president and his senior advisers to take time to absorb the recently completed assessment of the Afghanistan security situation by the senior commander there, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, before deciding.

"This compromise concerning the budget gives a clear sign that frontier research has an important role to play in Europe and that the support for it will always be given proper consideration," ERC President Jean-Pierre Bourguignon said in a statement today.

And Clinton's team was angry that former protégés like Rahm Emanuel didn't show the former president proper respect.

Tye began to work through "proper channels" after President Barack Obama failed to mention any changes to twelve-triple-three during a January 17 speech about "reforms" to NSA surveillance programs.