Sentence examples for takes a post of from inspiring English sources

Caught between the "Great Either-Or" of "Pessimism or Faith," Sidgwick may have regarded his position as "an inevitable point in the process of thought," but it was one he took "as a soldier takes a post of difficulty," and he could not assume the responsibility of drawing others to it (Sidgwick and Sidgwick, 1906: 354).

Deutch resigned from the CIA in December 1996 and took a post on the board of Citibank (now part of Citigroup) soon after.

Eager to correct his only defect, he takes a post tutoring the troubled son of a rich Amsterdam hotelier.

How the West Was Really Won : The team behind the hit play 'Buffalo Soldier' takes a post-Vietnam view of race, war and American history.

He subsequently took a post as professor of ethics at the Theological Faculty of Krakow and Lublin's Catholic University, where he founded the Polish personalist school.

But he eventually took a post as director of strategic initiatives for the Asia Pacific region, a move that forced him to leave India for Singapore.

One of the more impoverished members of his artistic circle, Guillaumin was obliged in 1872 to take a post with the department of bridges and causeways.

After the war, Heath became a civil servant, then took a post as news editor of the Church Times in 1947.

In 1951 Osmond took a post as deputy director of psychiatry at the Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada and moved there with his family.

Upon completing her doctorate studies, Harrison took a post as an instructor of chemistry at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, a women's college at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Luce took a post as an inspector of ships with the Great Western Marine Insurance Company, where he worked until his death in 1879, in his 75th year.