Example sentences of "was [verb] [subord] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | McBride was honoured at his club this week during their annual AGM , where former First XV prop Randal Bell was installed as President with Bill Walsh as his senior vice President , and Willie Henry as his junior vice President . |
| 2 | Prince Charles was installed as President at a degree congregation in Edinburgh in 1976 , and Sir Michael took the opportunity to underline to him that whatever ‘ the tribulations of our staff , who deal with the paper work of over 80,000 students and over 1000 courses , the Council itself and its committees and subject boards are concerned with one thing only , and that is quality ’ . |
| 3 | Kim Il Sung , 78 , was re-elected as President of the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ) on May 24 , for a fifth consecutive four-year term . |
| 4 | Since gaining independence within the Commonwealth ( as an " independent sovereign state " from 1963 and as a republic from 1967 ) , Uganda has been ruled by regimes dominated first by Milton Obote ( 1962-71 ) and then by Idi Amin ( 1971-79 ) ; Obote was re-elected as President in 1980 in the aftermath of the Tanzanian backed overthrow of Amin the previous year , but was himself overthrown in 1985 . |
| 5 | The incumbent President and former leader of the Slovene League of Communists , Milan Kucan , standing as an independent , was re-elected as President for a five-year term with 64 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | DAVID NAISH was re-elected as president of the National Farmers Union of England and Wales for a third year at the union 's annual meeting last week . |
| 7 | President : Mohammad Siyad Barre was replaced as President in January 1991 by the rebel United Somali Congress leader Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 8 | Following his election in December 1988 [ see p. 36423 ] Carlos Andrés Pérez was inaugurated as President for a five-year term on Feb. 2 , 1989 , in the presence of over 20 heads of state and government including the Cuban President , Fidel Castro , the then Nicaraguan President , Daniel Ortega Saavedra , and Felipe González , the Spanish Prime Minister , as well as the United States Vice-President , Dan Quayle . |
| 9 | Miguel Rodríguez , who was appointed as president of the Central Bank only in February , resigned on April 1 and was replaced by Ruth de Krivoy , the first woman to hold the post . |
| 10 | On Dec. 20 , Nexhmije Hoxha , the widow of Enver Hoxha ( the country 's ruler from 1944 until his death in 1985 ) and an opponent of change , was removed as president of the Democratic Front , the communist-dominated political umbrella organization , and was replaced by Carcani . |
| 11 | In the same year I was elected as president of the Junior Common Room , and presided at debates and business sessions of the student body . |
| 12 | Devi Lal was elected as President and Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , was one of three general secretaries . |
| 13 | Following a general election on Dec. 9 , 1989 , Bernard Dowiyogo was elected as President on Dec. 12 by 10 votes to six [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 14 | He was chosen as president of the provisional government , based in Shanghai in 1919 , but visited Shanghai only in 1920–21 for a limited period . |
| 15 | Lt.-Gen. ( formerly Col. ) Ali Abdullah Saleh , hitherto President of North Yemen , was chosen as President , and Ali Salim al-Bid , secretary-general of the Yemen Socialist Party ( YSP ) in former South Yemen , as Vice-President . |