Sentence examples for year of taking from inspiring English sources

And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office.

Except that within a year of taking power, he is showing the same authoritarianism that marked his regime in Gujarat.

Within a year of taking over in 1970, Pete Rozelle pushed through a revenue-sharing television deal.

Similarly, life insurance policies will not pay if policyholders kill themselves within a year of taking out the cover.

President François Hollande, a Socialist, promised during his campaign to legalize gay marriage within a year of taking office in May 2012.

Mr. Obama had pledged to close Guantánamo within a year of taking office and criticized the prison as overly expensive and a symbol used in terrorists' propaganda.

Mr. Obama had promised to close the Guantánamo prison within a year of taking office, but the effort faltered amid stiff Congressional resistance.

Mr. Schwarz, convicted last year of taking part in the attack on Mr. Louima, was in custody in an unseen holding area in the back of the courthouse.

Mr. Garson is the cousin of Gerald P. Garson, a former State Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn who was convicted last year of taking bribes to manipulate cases.

The official, Jackie Selebi, 61, was convicted last year of taking bribes in cash and gifts from a drug trafficker in exchange for providing secret information, including the details of an investigation by the British police.

Victor I. Barron, a former Brooklyn judge convicted last year of taking a bribe from a lawyer in a case he presided over, currently resides in the Clinton Correctional Facility, near New York's border with Canada.