Sentence examples for until the post of from inspiring English sources

The Governor's House to the south was built in 1742 as accommodation for the Governor, Storekeeper, and Master Gunner, and was used until the post of Governor became vacant in the later 19th century; it was then used by nurses of the castle hospital.

When it became clear that Mr. Rösler, who until last week held the post of health minister, would assume the party leadership, he reassigned the Free Democrats' top jobs, giving himself the far more popular job of economics minister.

In 1971 Parsons joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia, where he remained until he retired to the post of professor emeritus in 1992.

From 1884 until 1896 he held the post of high commissioner to London, except for an interval (1887 88) when he returned to Canada as minister of finance in Macdonald's cabinet.

When his clothes were stolen from a hotel — he had left them outside his room, presuming that someone would wash them — he sat around in bedsheets until a candidate for the post of personal assistant came up with the suggestion that more clothes be bought from a shop.

From 1622 until his death he held the post of cantor at the Nikolai Church in Berlin.

A Justice Ministry statement said that there was "apparent evidence of a relationship of a business nature between Mr. Weizman and a company linked to Mr. Saroussi in the years 1983-84, until after Mr. Weizman assumed the post of cabinet minister".

The elder Lee ruled with a rod of iron until 1990, when he took the post of senior minister and relinquished the prime minister's job to Goh Chok Tong, a younger member of Lee's People's Action Party.

He then held a succession of diplomatic posts until March 1878, when he reluctantly accepted the post of minister of foreign affairs in Cairoli's leftist cabinet, with which Corti was not entirely sympathetic.

The government was so terrified by the events of 1871 that it abolished the capital's executive council and the post of mayor until 1977, when Jacques Chirac was elected.

Control of the castle rested with the post of mayor until the Restoration.