Sentence examples for temporary president from inspiring English sources

Called out of retirement just two months later to take over the Hopkins presidency, Reed considered himself a temporary president and urged the Trustees to search for someone to take over the post on a permanent basis.

The faction's leader, T. Picado Michalski, was close to Nicaraguan temporary President Luis Somoza Debayle despite alleged communist support.

"The constitution is clear that there has to be a temporary president, and we have one right now".

Early on, he offered himself as a temporary president who would resign after signing campaign finance reform law.

Opposition leaders who had called for the head of the National Assembly to be named temporary president in Chávez's absence grudgingly accepted the court's decision.

They called on the United Nations and Western governments to help them appoint a temporary president after Mr. Karzai's term formally expires.

Since Ms. Clyburn's term as chairwoman is temporary — Tom Wheeler, President Obama's pick to be the next chairman, is awaiting Senate confirmation — the commission may tread especially carefully.

Temporary travel: President Obama has seized travel as a means to create jobs in the service sector.

Something's disturbingly wrong in how we're helplessly awaiting SCAF's decision on a temporary, powerless president.

In 1789, when New York City was the nation's temporary capital, President Washington borrowed two books from the New York Society Library in Federal Hall.

"TAG is a crisis-inspired program which Congress intended to be temporary," Bill Cheney, president of the credit union association, wrote in a letter to Senate leaders.