Sentence examples for tenure and focused from inspiring English sources

A1 The stroke that ended Mr. Obuchi's tenure and focused world attention once again on Japan's back-room political horse-trading has caused little dismay among most Japanese.

The stroke that put a sudden end to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's tenure and focused world attention once again on the back-room horse-trading that rules in this country, the second-largest economy in the world, has elicited little dismay among most Japanese.

In late August, Christie Whitman, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wrote senators a letter asking them to ignore the reports of problems with Mr. Schregardus's tenure and to focus on his successes.

So why switch from instructor-centered to student-centered methods, especially when tenure and promotion focuses on research instead of teaching?

At this point Van Natta likely wants everyone to simply forget about his infamous tenure at Project Playlist and focus on his more recent jobs at Facebook and Amazon.

Mr. Levin has made the internationalization of Yale a priority of his tenure, and he has focused especially on China, a nation he said was evolving economically and politically into what is likely to be one of the two great powers of the 21st century.

Five games into his tenure and the focus on not getting beaten – marginally or heavily – holds firm.

Clough's tenure especially focused on a dramatic expansion and modernization of the institute.

"These faculty are typically not on the tenure track and focus on teaching, not on research.

"The department must start setting priorities, making real trade-offs and separating appetites from real requirements," said Mr. Gates, who has made management efficiency his latest personal goal in a tenure that focused first on Iraq, then Afghanistan and later on overhauling the approach to weapons procurement.

During the first five years of her tenure she focused on expanding the auction business, then acquiring and building PayPal (bought in 2002 for $1.5 billion).