Sentence examples for tenure might from inspiring English sources

It seemed as though that tenure might have reached its ultimate conclusion.

A few years ago, continued tenure might have seemed less assured.

Still, Mr. Corzine conceded that he had no illusions that when he does leave office, 2008 and indeed his entire tenure might be viewed in a different light.

Much of the Pirates' core still comes from players acquired elsewhere, and Huntington, nearly six years into his tenure, might have had the best off-season of any general manager.

Only money can explain that.A reason why tenure might be higher for state employees is that their compensation is so back-loaded (they don't get it until the end of their career).

And while Clinton, with her repeated promises to build on the Obama administration's tenure, might seem like the obvious pick, in more than a dozen interviews many South Carolinians were attracted to the idealism of Sanders, whose message of revolution echoes Obama's rhetoric of hope and change.

The relationship between video games and geopolitical conflicts was at the core of a 1990 Comment piece by Lawrence Weschler in which he compared Mikhail Gorbachev's management of a fragmenting Soviet Union to a popular early game: Gorbachev's tenure … might be likened to an epic game of Tetris.

Such short-term appointments, whether by the institution or by an academic department, do not require the extensive review that a tenure decision might.

The land-tax rate was highly variable, depending not on the productivity of any plot but on the condition of its tenure, which might be as freehold or as one of several categories of land rented from the government.

WACO — Based solely on his brief tenure, Ken Starr might reasonably conclude that one of the annual summer duties of a Baylor University president is scrambling to preserve the Big 12 Conference.

Mr. Mills calls the N.B.A. "the most colorblind" of all the major sports leagues -- he spent 15 years there, ascending to senior vice president, without noticing any slammed doors -- and he's hopeful that basketball, whenever David Stern's expert tenure ends, might install its first black commissioner.