Sentence examples for secured appointment from inspiring English sources

Presenting himself as the only man capable of establishing and extending the French colony, he secured appointment as governor (1835).

In 1882 a boundary commission, to which Rhodes again secured appointment, was sent to settle the boundaries of Griqualand West.

An army chaplain during the Franco-German War (1870 71), Stoecker secured appointment as a court preacher at the cathedral in Berlin in 1874.

Disappointed in his defeat for election to the U.S. Senate in 1789, Blount secured appointment as territorial governor of the lands west of the Alleghenies ceded to the U.S. in 1789 by North Carolina.

Hanna, having declined the position of Postmaster General, secured appointment to the Senate when McKinley made Ohio's aging senior senator, John Sherman, his Secretary of State.

Declining a Cabinet position, Hanna, secured appointment as senator from Ohio after Sherman was made Secretary of State; he was re-elected by the Ohio General Assembly in 1898 and 1904.

The Bundestag and Bundesrat each select half of the court's 16 judges; in each case, a nominee must win two-thirds support to secure appointment.

To secure appointment as legate, Theobald travelled to Rome in December 1143, arriving shortly before Celestine's death on 8 March 1144.

While dividing his time, Blackstone became an administrator at All Souls, securing appointment as accountant, treasurer and bursar on 28 November 1746.

Female priests hold senior positions like canon and archdeacon, and some had been hoping to secure appointments as bishops by 2014 if the change had been approved.

It seemed strange that a woman who could easily secure appointments with Germany's best dermatologists apparently had not consulted them.