Sentence examples for was made speaker from inspiring English sources

But after the 2008 election he was made speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.

In 1992 he was made speaker of the Georgian parliament and became the country's leader.

Macpherson was made speaker of the Senate in 1880 and minister without portfolio in the Conservative Cabinet.

Indeed, Mr. Gingrich said that partisan extremism was both justified and necessary when he was made speaker after the Republicans won a majority in Congress in 1994.

Royal had backed Hollande during the presidential campaign and had been hoping to win the La Rochelle seat in order to be made speaker of parliament as a reward for her loyalty.

Some even suggested he should simply be made speaker without a vote — by acclamation.

It is striking how, at French functions where a British representative is present and there is a need for some obliging observation about us to be made, speakers seem unable to find anything to refer to that has happened since 1940-45, a period which still indeed affords us a good deal of capital.

The British audio company KEF has been making speakers and studio monitors for more than 50 years, but it only recently turned its attention to headphones.

Much was made of Speaker of the House John Boehner's conciliatory tone following that gathering, but the specifics of what he said seemed as rigid as ever.

And on top of that there are both vaccination sites with no early HIV-1 record, and records that are hundreds of kilometres from a vaccination site.Another damning observation was made by a speaker called John Beale.

The threat was made by the speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, whose Democratic Movement party (better known by its Portuguese acronym PMDB) is in open revolt against the Workers party government it has propped up since 2003.