Sentence examples for taking up office from inspiring English sources

Work is continuing on the programme so that the new commissioner "has a range of options upon taking up office".

Numerous Presidents-elect travelled by rail to Washington before taking up office but Mr Obama draws particularly close parallels between his life and the 16th President's.

Just over a year after taking up office, mired in a series of embarrassing policy crises, she resigned, saying she hadn't done the job as well as she should have done.

When taking up office he vowed to be an active president who would use his mandate to strengthen what had until then been a largely ceremonial post and to push for the necessary constitutional change that would turn Turkey's parliamentary system into a presidential one.

A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.

Eddie Jones has been delayed in taking up office as England head coach because he is waiting for a work visa.

The next governor takes up office in July 2013.

He took up office in 1949 and stayed put until his death in December 2012.

The new President Uhuru Kenyatta, who took up office in April 2013, was known to be sympathetic to wildlife conservation.

Celtic said he would join the board as chairman-designate on Monday and would take up office at the agm.

Ah well, say the coalition's savants in Vienna, at least Mr Haider will lose national influence if he takes up office in rural Carinthia.