Sentence examples for took directorship from inspiring English sources

After securing initial funding from MIT and the University of Hawaii, Jaggar took directorship of the observatory and, whilst its head between 1912 and 1940, pioneered seismological and observational study and observation of active volcanoes.

In the 1990s Slabbert went into business, becoming chairman of a major publishing house, Caxtons, chairman of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and taking directorships on a number of boards as well as working for the George Soros philanthropic organisation, the Open Society Foundation of Southern Africa.

He never took a directorship in the US, though, saying in interviews that he did not wish to battle union regulations on rehearsal time.

The princess took over directorship of the decrepit Imperial Academy of Sciences in Russia and, though not a scientist herself, restored it to prominence and intellectual respectability.

King will take the directorship of the new Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, founded with £10m from Martin Smith, an Oxford graduate.

Raymond Orbach, director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, and DOE's undersecretary for science under President George W. Bush, who urged Drell to take the directorship, agrees.

This move caused much ill feeling in Wales, where many felt that Wheeler had simply taken the directorship of the National Museum to advance his own career prospectives, and that he had abandoned them when a better offer came along.

The directorship took him in late 1993 to Madagascar.

Mr. Todoli, 51, took over the directorship in 2003 after running the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Oporto, Portugal.

In 1985 Bondy took over the directorship of the prestigious Schaubühne.

But he died in 1987, and by the time his son took over the directorship, in 1993, younger players were filling the band's ranks.