Sentence examples for title of acting from inspiring English sources

Joyner had the title of acting athletic director until Monday.

Jeffrey Zients has held the title of acting director since then.

Mr. Riggio assumed the title of acting chief executive seven months ago, and the company still has no replacement.

She officially became first lady in 2006 after an ailing Fidel ceded power to Raúl, who assumed the title of acting president.

The child was not officially enthroned but merely called the Young Prince, while Wang Mang in ad 6 was given the title of acting emperor.

But the title of acting governor soon proved to be a great burden to Mr. DiFrancesco, who had never been closely examined by the news media.

The online bookseller Barnesandnoble.com reshuffled its executive ranks yesterday, giving its chief financial officer responsibility for marketing and merchandising but leaving the 16-month-old prefix "acting" in the title of its acting chief executive, Stephen Riggio.

Some have taken inventive measures that might allow them to escape the clutches of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which ensnared the SSA and limits the use of "acting" titles.

It was in Biarritz that he did his first bit of acting, playing the title role in "Richard III," and when he returned to the United States he continued to perform at Fordham University — his sixth institution of higher education.

"Several safety reports in the past have all stressed this — the elimination of acting out of title — for safety reasons, because you are taking, even an experienced fire officer, and putting him in a new job," said Deputy Chief Richard J. Alles, an official of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, representing 2,450 officers, who has not seen the report.

Decades later, Albert Brooks attempted to coax her out of acting retirement by offering her the title role opposite himself in his 1996 film Mother.