Sentence examples for served appointments from inspiring English sources

He then served appointments as governor of British Guiana (1848 53), Jamaica (1853 56), Victoria (1856 63), and Mauritius (1863 70) before being sent to the African continent to serve as British high commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony (1870 77).

As he knows only too well, Ms Dorries is no great fan of the new Speaker, promising, when he was elected, "to make sure that it is one of the shortest served appointments in the grand and glorious history of that coveted chair".

He practiced law in Albany, NY for Degraff Foy Conway & Holt Harris before working for Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, for whom he served as appointment secretary and then as New York State Superintendant of Banks.

He also served an appointment as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Andrew Tarsy recently served an appointment as a Visiting Professional in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Another veteran of Mr. Cuomo's team of prosecutors, Leslie G. Leach, will serve as appointments secretary, helping him recruit and place personnel.

All would serve lifetime appointments.

The Muslim leaders said, for instance, that none of the area's seven district commissioners, who serve by appointment from Nairobi, is a Muslim.

Mr. Price helped raise money for Reagan's 1980 presidential run and in 1981 was named ambassador to Belgium, where he served until his appointment to Britain.

His appointment served as a climax to parallel dramas: a public dispute between Netanyahu's most conservative ministers and the Israel Defense Forces, which Lieberman's appointment will inflame, and a secret peace initiative prompted by Tony Blair, involving players from the opposition leader, Isaac Herzog, to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, which the appointment effectively scuttles.

Dr. McMahan received undergraduate degrees in Physics and History of Art from Duke, a Ph.D in Physics from Dartmouth and served a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.