Sentence examples for retained the position from inspiring English sources

He retained the position until 1977.

He retained the position for 11 years, and, upon the retirement of Pres.

The English Democrats, a nationalist party, were down two seats, but retained the position of the mayor of Doncaster.

Mr. Piscitelli, a lawyer, was named the city's top Albany lobbyist in 1998 by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and retained the position until July 2006.

Senator John C. Calhoun, in Irving H. Bartlett's "John C. Calhoun: A Biography". Calhoun, a Democrat, was elected Vice-President under John Adams in 1824, and retained the position under Andrew Jackson.

This unionist unity force would have to be constituted before any assembly election as a coherent, singular entity, which the strategist hoped would gain enough votes to ensure unionism retained the position of first minister.

He returned to Columbia a year later, while retaining the position at the defense fund.

But he failed to retain the position, and the more conservative Do Muoi took over three months later.

The succession plans call for Mr. Young to retain the position of chairman of the Hachette Book Group, spending about one week a month in New York.

Still, both men want the president to retain the position of commander in chief and to have an important, if still vague, role in foreign policy and national security.

Extra losses to Labour or the SNP help Miliband's chances of making it to No 10; further losses to the Tories could help Cameron retain the position of being leader of the largest party at Westminster.