The word "tenures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the period of time that someone holds or occupies a designated office or position. For example, "A variety of people have held the position of Mayor, each with their own tenures."
While they helped get women into boardrooms, they did not translate into long tenures, raising the issue of a potential "revolving door".
As outlined in our UK housing review earlier this year, we need coordinated, sustained action over at least a decade – including putting targets and incentives in place for new housebuilding of all tenures (ownership, shared ownership, private rent and social rent).
He wants the state to remain in control, but has promised to reduce government meddling, to lure chief executives from the private sector and to give them longer tenures.
India has had a few of these in the 1990s, and some say that prime ministers who know their tenures will be short try to get more done than the timorous and long-serving.The case for gloomYet sceptics see a more alarming possibility: that India's politicians are not really interested in reform.
Mr Hunter and Mr Stern negotiated three collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) together during their tenures.
Although Ms Palin's youthfulness, she is 44, is an eye-catching contrast to the top of the ticket, questions will be raised about her ability to run the country if Mr McCain should ever be incapacitated.And the tenures of both Al Gore and Dick Cheney as vice-president have raised the profile of the office.
Short tenures mean that they have little time to learn their briefs and less motivation to tackle entrenched problems; the ambitious ones tend to view jobs mainly as stepping stones to better ones.
The CED report lists several symptoms of growing short-termism, including increased levels of share trading, pay packages linked to short-term earnings, pressure from activist hedge funds and reduced tenures for bosses.
Mr Rajapaksa has used his big parliamentary majority to undermine the independence of the judiciary and to tamper with the constitution removing the two-term limit on presidential tenures, for example, strengthening an already overpowerful "executive presidency" and failing to do anything to afford Tamils the autonomy the constitution promises them.
It is surely no coincidence that several of the Prudential executives involved in initiating a deal that carries both risk and the prospect for extraordinary rewards had long prior tenures at AIG.
Most MFIs have loans with one- or two-year tenures.
