Sentence examples for service examinations from inspiring English sources

"My son, like many other young fellows, was taking civil service examinations.

Civil service examinations were discontinued, and such social practices as class discrimination were abolished.

Zhang repeatedly urged the abolition of the civil service examinations, and this was done in 1905.

The civil service examinations were to be broadened to include Western subjects.

He suspended the civil service examinations and decreed that only Mongols could hold offices.

In 1057 he was placed in charge of civil service examinations.

Sima Guang studied the Confucian Classics and, after passing the civil-service examinations, rose rapidly to high office.

Last month, Tibetan students protested in the capital, Lhasa, after civil-service examinations had resulted in 98 out of 100 jobs going to ethnic Chinese.

As a young man, Yan became interested in Confucianism and studied to pass his civil-service examinations, which would have given him entrance into the bureaucracy.

The son of a poor village scholar, Ch'oe repeatedly failed the civil-service examinations that he had to pass to qualify for high office.

His mother, though uneducated herself, laid great emphasis on the education of her son, which alone would enable him to pass competitive civil-service examinations that led to a career as an official.