Sentence examples for session chairmanships from inspiring English sources

In the majority of meetings we have attended, session chairmanships are honorary positions only rarely assigned to the organizers themselves.

Assembly Speaker Silver stripped Mr. Brennan of his committee chairmanship shortly before the latest session.

Turkey's PM has already stormed out of a session with Israel after what he deemed unfair (US) chairmanship.

An informal meeting of representatives of international non-governmental organizations admitted as observers to the Sixteenth Session of the Conference was convened on Monday 8 November 1971 under the chairmanship of Tom S. Bavin (International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers), who had been nominated by the Fifty-Seventh Session of the Council.

All ended up with committee chairmanships when he became speaker at the beginning of the 2009 session.

Under the chairmanship of Ursula Lidbetter, the board had held an emergency session late on Monday to agree on changing the structure of an organisation that spans supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies.

Last month, at an Asean session in Phnom Penh in preparation for the ministerial meeting, Cambodia, which holds the chairmanship of the regional bloc and is a close ally of China, refused to allow the issuing of a statement on the need for a peaceful resolution of the disputes.

Both Democrats and Republicans hold committee chairmanships.

Chairmanships are traditionally based on seniority.

It was time to dispense chairmanships.

House Democrats starting their third terms are routinely given chairmanships.