Example sentences of "for a [adj] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Philip Swallow , Head of the English Department at Rummidge University , had been elected Dean of the Arts Faculty for a three-year term ; and since the duties of this office , added to his Departmental responsibilities , drastically reduced his contribution to undergraduate teaching , he was by tradition allowed to appoint a temporary lecturer , at the lower end of the salary scale , as what was quaintly termed ‘ Dean 's Relief ’ . |
| 2 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 3 | Mr Brindle , a former chairman of the Auditing Practices Committee , joins the Board for a three-year term . |
| 4 | Under the Constitution of December 1983 executive power is held by the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term , while legislative power is vested in the unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Constituent Assembly in March 1985 ) with 60 members similarly elected for a three-year term . |
| 5 | Each state has its own constitution and is administered by a governor who , with the exception of the Governor of the Federal District , is elected for a six-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies elected for a three-year term . |
| 6 | Membership : The Governing Council comprises 58 countries ( 16 from Africa , 13 from Asia and the Pacific , 10 from Latin America and the Caribbean , 13 from Western Europe and North America and six from Eastern Europe ) each elected by the UN General Assembly for a three-year term on a rotating basis [ for October 1988 elections by the 43rd session of the General Assembly see p. 36781 ] . |
| 7 | Under Resolution 44/308 of Nov. 1 , the Assembly elected the following 18 states to the UN Economic and Social Council ( following the expiration of the term in office of one-third of the Council 's membership ) for a three-year term beginning on Jan. 1 , 1990 ( * — re-elected ) : Algeria , Bahrain , Bulgaria* , Burkina , Canada* , China* , Ecuador , Finland , German Democratic Republic , Iran* , Jamaica , Mexico , Pakistan , Rwanda* , Soviet Union* , Sweden , United Kingdom* , Zaïre* . |
| 8 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 9 | Under the federal Constitution adopted in 1901 , legislative power is vested in the bicameral Parliament , comprising a 148-member House of Representatives elected for a three-year term and a 76-member Senate ( 12 seats for each of the six constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory ) . |
| 10 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral House of Representatives , whose 97 members are elected for a three-year term . |
| 11 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 12 | Each state has its own constitution , is administered by a governor , who is elected for a six-year term , and has a Chamber of Deputies elected for a three-year term . |
| 13 | In March 1991 , the ICAO Council appointed Phillippe H. P. Rochat ( Switzerland ) as Secretary-General of the organization for a three-year term beginning Aug. 1 , 1991 , succeeding Shivindor Singh Sidhu . |
| 14 | Those re-elected were Gilbert Guillaume ( France ) and Sir Robert Jennings ( UK ) , ( elected President by the ICJ on Feb. 7 , 1991 , for a three-year term ) ; those elected to their first terms were Andres Aguilar Mawdsley ( Venezuela ) ; Raymond Ranjeeva ( Madagascar ) and Christopher Gregory Weeramantry ( Sri Lanka ) . |
| 15 | The 151-member Tsogdu includes 106 directly elected representatives , each elected for a three-year term by individual constituencies at various dates depending on the expiry of their term . |
| 16 | Houphouët-Boigny was expected to announce his own candidacy for a seventh term of office at the ruling Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) congress in early October . |
| 17 | Aldermen were indirectly elected by the councillors for a six-year term and comprised one-quarter of the total council membership . |
| 18 | Legislative authority is vested in a Chamber of Representatives elected for a six-year term and comprising 306 members , of whom 206 are directly elected by universal adult suffrage , and the remainder by an electoral college composed of local councillors and representatives of professional bodies . |
| 19 | The unicameral People 's Assembly , which is elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term , nominates the President ( currently Mohammed Hosni Mubarak ) , who is confirmed by popular referendum for a six-year term . |
| 20 | Chamorro , who was due to take office for a six-year term on April 25 together with her Vice-President , Virgilio Godoy , asserted that there were " no victors and no vanquished " and that the elections showed the desire of Nicaraguans to live in democracy , peace and liberty . |
| 21 | Under a new Constitution approved by the 96-member National Constituent Assembly on Nov. 19 , 1986 , and signed into effect on Jan. 9 , 1987 [ see p. 35444 ] , legislative power is exercised by a unicameral National Assembly composed of 90 representatives ( each with an alternate representative ) directly elected for a six-year term by a system of proportional representation and , in addition , those unelected presidential and vice-presidential candidates ( as representatives and alternates respectively ) who receive nationally votes at least equivalent to the average of the winning percentages in each regional electoral district . |
| 22 | Both the President and the Vice-President are directly elected for a six-year term . |
| 23 | Executive power is held by a President who is elected for a six-year term and who appoints a Cabinet including the Governor of the Federal District . |
| 24 | Each state has its own constitution and is administered by a governor who , with the exception of the Governor of the Federal District , is elected for a six-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies elected for a three-year term . |
| 25 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 26 | Executive powers are vested in the President who is directly elected for a six-year term . |
| 27 | The Comoros are ruled by a President elected for a six-year term . |
| 28 | Executive power is vested in the President who , with the Vice-President , is elected for a six-year term by an electoral college of 600 directly-elected members . |
| 29 | Elected for a six-year term by universal suffrage ( or by a 301-member electoral college in case no candidate obtains an absolute majority ) , the President appoints a Cabinet under a Prime Minister , which must enjoy the confidence of the 200-member parliament ( Eduskunta ) , elected for a four-year term . |
| 30 | Executive power is in the hands of a President who is elected for a six-year term by the National Assembly . |