Sentence examples for took on the post from inspiring English sources

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Reports said that Laura Dowling, who took on the post with some fanfare in 2009, left because her "fussy" style was not in line with that of Mr Obama.

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All this suggests that General Sir Nicholas Houghton, chief of the defence staff, was spot on when he warned in December 2013, soon after he took on the post, that Britain was in danger of being left with hollowed-out armed forces, what he called a "strategically incoherent force structure", with "exquisite" equipment but without the personnel needed to operate it.

Since he took on the post in 2002, Exeter has risen from 34th in the university rankings to about 10th – 12th in the Guardian listings (whoops) and seventh in the Sunday Times, has joined the Russell Group and expanded its student intake and campus facilities.

But in his last, "Truth and Truthfulness" (2002), he sought to speak plainly, and took on the post-modern, politically correct notion that truth is merely relative, particularly as it is expressed in the work of by his former colleague Richard Rorty, who argues that truth is dispensable and that its pursuit is a form of substitute religion and as such a delusion.

In taking on the post, which has a five-year term, Ms. Nelson succeeds Leo Connellan, who died two months before his term ended.

The board is said to have received proposals for a "joint directorship" from some of those who are reluctant to take on the post alone but the favoured option is believed to be a single individual.

In an interview with the Observer today, the general secretary elect of the TUC, Frances O'Grady, – the first woman ever to take on the post – says the TUC will back co-ordinated strikes if delegates support them.

In her first major speech since taking on the post at the start of the year, she told the Royal United Services Institute in London that the review was still in its early stages and no options had been ruled out.