Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following an amendment to the Constitution , the current head of state , Hastings Kamuzu Banda , was proclaimed Life President in July 1971 , having ruled Malawi since independence . |
| 2 | Hastings Kamuzu Banda , Malawi 's ruler since independence , was proclaimed Life President in 1971 following a constitutional amendment . |
| 3 | Lukman , now foreign minister , was re-elected OPEC president in November . |
| 4 | She joined the company aged twenty-nine and was appointed US president in 1987 . |
| 5 | As a result , in January 1619 , during one of the pro-Spanish phases of James I 's foreign policy , he was appointed lord president of the council in the north , replacing Edmund , third Baron Sheffield ( later first Earl of Mulgrave , q.v. ) , lately a persecutor of Catholics , probably at the prompting of the Spanish ambassador , Gondomar . |
| 6 | Kalpokas , widely regarded as one of the country 's more able leaders , retained , however , his position as secretary-general of the VP and at a party congress was elected VP president in place of Lini on Aug. 7 . |
| 7 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 8 | Kastriot Islami , the Education Minister , was elected Assembly president ( Speaker ) . |
| 9 | At the SPS congress in Basle on April 28 Peter Bodenmann was elected party president in succession to Helmut Hubacher ; the SPS executive on May 11 elected two women vice-presidents , Ursula Ulrich and Francine Jeanprêtre . |
| 10 | On Oct. 1 Kebby Musokotwane , hitherto secretary-general of the previously ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) , was elected party president at an extraordinary congress , succeeding former President Kenneth Kaunda who had resigned the party leadership in January ; others elected to party posts included Patrick Luvunga as vice-president , Gen. Malimba Masheke as chair and Gen. Benjamin Mibenge as the new secretary-general . |