Sentence examples for was tenure from inspiring English sources
noun
A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
Of the free tenures, the first was tenure in chivalry, principally grand sergeanty and knight service.
One thing that the legislature did not change in 2002 was tenure, which was introduced in New York in 1917, as a good-government reform to protect teachers from the vagaries of political patronage.
An exception was Tenure All-Surface Bonding System in which all specimens failed at the dentin/adhesive interface.
Most notable was tenure insecurity and overcrowding, manifested in a lack of adequate housing, drainage and water and sanitation systems, and related vulnerability to waterlogging and disease outbreak.
November was tenure-review time, with mounds of papers to read and unending cycles of meetings that the dean, in particular, was not supposed to miss.
She, too, succeeded: She was tenured last year.
One year later, I was tenured.
"But I waited to have a child until I was tenured.
I only started to gain a true career vision of where I wanted to go scientifically once I was tenured.
He was tenured in 1993, and had been a Section Chief in the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology in NIAID.
As it is, tenure is granted almost automatically.
