Sentence examples for the powerful posting from inspiring English sources

Outgoing secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said it was "high time" a woman held the powerful posting, a sentiment echoed by roughly a third of the member states.

Elected to the provincial assembly in 1756, he occupied the powerful post of speaker from 1766 to 1775.

Antonín Zápotocký succeeded him as premier, while Rudolf Slánský retained the powerful post of secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.

In May 1995, after the last presidential elections, he was appointed to the powerful post of minister of economy and finance.

The vote in his Baghdad district sets him up to run for the powerful post of speaker.

He will continue to hold the powerful post of the head of the Expediency Council, a body charged with settling disputes over legislation between parliament and the Council of Guardians.

The main parties have agreed that this will be largely a figurehead role not the powerful post that the Maoists would prefer.

But the McCain-Palin plan is to reform Republicanism by keeping Republicans in control of the White House and most of the powerful posts in the federal government.

Eduardo Cunha, a crafty conservative congressman from Rio de Janeiro, crushed the PT candidate to win for the PMDB the powerful post of Speaker of the lower house.

One proponent of this idea is Neal Katyal, whom Obama recently named to the powerful post of Principal Deputy Solicitor General, in the Justice Department.

He then appointed Mr. Orr to the powerful post of emergency manager, giving him nearly unilateral control of the city's finances and operations.