Sentence examples for were hired over from inspiring English sources

In the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the Federal Writers Projectt, under which some 6,000 out-of-work writers were hired over a period of several years to write guidebooks, oral histories, ethnographies and the like, and in the process "describe America to Americans".

Workers in the cohort were hired over many decades (from before 1960 until after 1980).

He was hired over three other candidates, including the former Detroit Lions coach Bobby Ross.

Students have to prove why they should be hired over others, but it still helps to be lucky.

He'll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted.

Three friends e-mailed the job description to him, urging him to apply, and he was hired over 120 other candidates.

D'Antoni had been hired over Phil Jackson after the firing of Brown partly because of his heady days in Phoenix, where Nash won consecutive Most Valuable Player awards running D'Antoni's system.

The principal, Tyona Washington, declined to be interviewed for this article, but said in a statement that when she was hired over the summer, she did not expect that the school would be closed.

Asked why Heinrichs was hired over the more experienced Gregg, Steinbrecher said, "It's a matter of April being a dominant force in the interview, and showing a great deal of strength and rising to the top".

I'd like to think that if someone was hired over a serving deputy, who may have applied for the job, that they would approach it in a mature way.

Both Broadway and politics are deeply insular: The same directors, designers, press agents and campaign operatives are hired over and over again; far fewer people really know what's going on with a show or a campaign than pretend to (a handful of talent agents and producers, a candidate's consigliere).