Sentence examples for year presidents from inspiring English sources

In what is becoming the hippest environment meeting of the year, presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the world's poorest nations.

That year, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. McGovern ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizationn.

That same year President Obama signed a law permitting concealed guns in national parks.

That same year, President Obama deployed an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan.

That same year, President Wheeler, who had overseen the evolution of the University for twenty years, retired.

The exodus began in 1964, the year President Lyndon Johnson, the former Texas senator, passed the Civil Rights Act.

Later that year President-elect Barack Obama selected Richardson to serve as secretary of commerce, a post that requires Senate confirmation.

In the Great Depression, every year President Roosevelt unleashed a big stimulus, the economy grew and unemployment fell.

In August of that year President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing appointed Barre prime minister; he served in that position until 1981.

That year, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in his motorcade through downtown Dallas.

That year President Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country's highest civilian honor.