Example sentences of "was [verb] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference delegates were severely critical of Denis Sassou-Nguesso , who was to remain President , but with greatly reduced executive powers , during the transitional period . |
| 2 | Following the Communist victory over the pro-American regime in 1975 , Phat was named president of the short-lived Republic of South Vietnam . |
| 3 | Phat became NLF secretary-general in 1964 , and after the defeat in 1975 of the US-backed South Vietnam regime , Phat was named President of the short-lived South Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government . |
| 4 | The agreement initially had the support of the leader of the Comité de forces vives , Albert Zafy , who was named president of the High Authority . |
| 5 | When Ngo Dinh Diem was proclaimed President of the ‘ Republic of Vietnam ’ in October 1955 compromise seemed impossible as he began to suppress all opposition , whether political or religious . |
| 6 | The armed forces chief-of-staff , General Renato de Villa , told reporters the military was asking President Aquino to offer cash rewards to those who turn in rebel leaders . |
| 7 | In the face of huge popular demonstrations in favour of Aquino and a growing mutiny within the armed forces , Marcos fled the country on Feb. 25 and Aquino was declared President [ see pp. 34297-302 ] . |
| 8 | After a protracted procedural wrangle it was agreed to hold a second ballot on June 25 , but shortly before the vote Jones withdrew from the contest and Loosley was declared president . |
| 9 | In the face of huge popular demonstrations in favour of Aquino and a growing mutiny within the armed forces , Marcos fled the country on Feb. 25 and Aquino was declared President . |
| 10 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 11 | Former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe was appointed president of the new committee which is made up of three members from each of the former rival groups . |
| 12 | In 1916 , H. A. L. Fisher , the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University , was appointed President of the Board of Education , with the promise that ‘ money would be found for ambitious educational measures ’ . |
| 13 | In this year , he was appointed President of the English Circle of Books Across the Sea , and also became a member of the Apollo Society which was dedicated to reviving " the neglected art of reading poetry and to show that poetry and music can be regarded as complementary " . |
| 14 | Robert Wilson was appointed President and will administer federation business from Hong Kong . |
| 15 | Rigby returned to Bombay in April 1854 and soon afterwards was appointed president of the examination committee for native languages — his latest recreation being the study of Turkish . |
| 16 | Andrés Bianchi ( deputy executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America — ECLA ) was appointed president of the board for a two-year term . |
| 17 | Florakis was appointed president of the KKE 's central committee and remained president of Synaspismos . |
| 18 | Also in March Joao Aurigema Cruz Pinto was appointed President of the Supreme Court with the rank of minister , replacing Rui dos Merces Barreto , who was named as an ambassador . |
| 19 | On his release in 1977 Shekhar was appointed president of the newly created Janata Party . |
| 20 | Jorge Pereyra de Olazabal was appointed President of the National Development Bank . |
| 21 | In July 1990 Maria Schaumayer , a former ÖVP member of the Viennese provincial parliament , was appointed president of Österreichische Nationalbank , the Austrian central bank . |
| 22 | De Franco was appointed president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua replacing Raúl A. Lacayo Solórzano who had been criticized for his credit policies . |
| 23 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 24 | He was elected President of the Congregation in 1934 , the year of Leonard 's birth , which helped to cement even further that deep family loyalty to the institution . |
| 25 | This was the year in which Leonard was elected president of McGill 's Debating Society . |
| 26 | Two days later , when Rezso Nyers was elected president , he received Mr Gorbachev 's personal greetings . |
| 27 | He was a friend of Richard Nixon , however , and when Nixon was elected president in 1968 , he returned to the White House as the president 's physician . |
| 28 | He was elected president of French PEN in 1979 and immediately set about organising the world congress in Lyon . |
| 29 | • David Naish was elected president of the NFU this year . |
| 30 | In November 1945 , Tito was elected President of Yugoslavia . |