Example sentences of "as chairman of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Gqozo had taken power in Ciskei as chairman of a Military Council in March 1990 — see p. 37305 . |
| 2 | One had served as chairman of a local Soviet through these years , with a canny transformation into starosta ( village elder ) when the White Army appeared briefly . |
| 3 | Krustyu Petkov was named as chairman of the new confederation , having served as chairman of an interim CCTU executive committee since the December 1989 dismissal of former BCP politburo member Petur Dyulgerov as CCTU chairman [ see p. 37109 ] . |
| 4 | Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 6 | These included the transfer of the Metal Industry portfolio to Deputy Premier Cho Yong Nim ; the appointment of Deputy Premier Kim Tal Hyon as Chairman of the State Planning Commission ; and the appointment of Yi Song Tae as Kim Tal Hyon 's successor as Chairman of the External Trade Commission . |
| 7 | Hisashi Shinto , 80 , one of Japan 's most senior industrialists , was on Oct. 9 given a suspended prison sentence of two years for having accepted bribes in the Recruit shares-for-influence scandal whilst serving as chairman of the privatized Nippon Telephone and Telegraph ( NTT ) . |
| 8 | But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city ? |
| 9 | After the merger between Cadbury and Schweppes he succeeded Lord Watkinson as Chairman of the combined company at the end of 1974 . |
| 10 | MICHAEL LAWRENCE , GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR , PRUDENTIAL CORPORATION The man from the Pru rings in the changes Last month , Hugh Collum stood down as chairman of the 100 Group after a successful two-year campaign raising its profile . |
| 11 | But those trips will probably be few and far between over the next two years since his already groaning workload was increased still further last month when he took over from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , as chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors . |
| 12 | Polozkov 's fraction opposed Yeltsin 's election as chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet . |
| 13 | On Jan. 22 , the day after the Supreme Court 's decision , Don Nickles , a Republican senator from Oklahoma and a renowned opponent of abortion , was named as chairman of the 1992 Republican platform committee . |
| 14 | Admiral Crowe was replaced as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday by General Colin Powell . |
| 15 | The speculation that Quayle might be dropped in 1992 in favour of Gen. Colin Powell was further dampened when on May 23 Bush nominated Powell for a second two-year term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 16 | Luis Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez replaced Gen. Farouk Yanine Díaz as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 17 | On June 23 Air Marshal Anant Kalinta had been replaced by a civil servant as chairman of the state-owned Communications Authority of Thailand . |
| 18 | On July 21 the Cabinet named a civilian government official to replace Gen. Issarapong as chairman of the state-owned telephone company . |
| 19 | Since 1979 Brian has managed to combine all his other duties with that of being a Cheshire magistrate and he also serves as chairman of the Cestrian Trust for kidney dialysis . |
| 20 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 21 | The Berlin Blockade of June heralded the stationing of the first three US bomber groups in the United Kingdom in July ; and was followed by Montgomery 's appointment as Chairman of the Western European Chiefs of Staff committee in November , and the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty the following April , coincidently with the passage of the US Mutual Defence Aid Programme through Congress . |
| 22 | He ended his life as chairman of the ineffectual Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference . |
| 23 | Former Civic Forum chairman and federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus was elected overwhelmingly as chairman of the new party . |
| 24 | Elected FRS in 1846 , he led an active public life into his eighth decade , and for many years served as chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not scared of walking down Bondgate with my checked trousers and apron on , ’ says the owner of the Smythe confectionery chain , now part-way through a two-year stint as chairman of the British Confectioners ' Association . |
| 26 | MacGregor has a new interest in coal as he is due to take over shortly as chairman of the National Coal Board . |
| 27 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 28 | In June 1989 Yi Chol Pong was appointed to the new Ministry of Urban Management and Pyong Yong Nip was replaced by Choe Ki Chong as Chairman of the Educational Commission . |
| 29 | Col. Elias Tutsoane Ramaema was reported by Radio Lesotho on May 2 to have been sworn in as Chairman of the ruling Military Council , following the overthrow of Maj.-Gen. |
| 30 | He was to replace Yildirim Akbulut , whom he had ousted as chairman of the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) two days earlier . |