Example sentences of "president of the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church . |
2 | The president of the Assassins ' Guild spun his short blowgun dexterously and slotted it into its holster in one smooth movement . |
3 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
4 | Jansher has been rebuffed in the past by the president of the Players ' Association , Chris Dittmar , for demanding too much of tournament organisers . |
5 | Shanks was president of the Mechanics ' Institute of St Helens . |
6 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
7 | Included in the new Cabinet was Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu , president of the teachers ' union and a former critic of the government . |
8 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
9 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
10 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
11 | Criticism from the Vatican during the papacy of Pope John Paul II had also resulted in one of Arns 's auxiliary bishops , Mgr Luciano Mendes de Almeida , who was also president of the Bishops ' Conference , becoming Archbishop of Mariana in the largely rural state of Minas Gerais , while other progressive Brazilian bishops , including Arns , had lost their seats on Vatican councils and other responsibilities to conservatives . |
12 | A third round of peace talks between the government and the Guatemalan Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ) guerrillas , mediated by the National Reconciliation Commission headed by Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , the Bishop of Zacapa and president of the Bishops ' Conference , took place in the Mexican city of Querétaro on July 22-23 [ see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 for previous rounds ] . |
13 | On Dec. 12 delegates elected the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kisangani and president of the Bishops ' Conference , as president of the conference . |
14 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
15 | The President of the Students ' Union meets the Vice-Chancellor of the University on a regular basis |
16 | In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA . |
17 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
18 | The hidden agenda , which has never been properly discussed , was an attempt by American superagent Mark McCormack to muscle into the world of FI via Didier Pironi , then president of the drivers ' association . |
19 | International concern over the spate of killings of rural union leaders was further heightened by the wounding in an assassination attempt on March 4 of Carlos Cabral , president of the Farmworkers ' Union in Rio Maria in the jungle state of Pará ( and the son-in-law of the union 's founder , Joao Canuto , who had himself been assassinated in 1985 ) . |
20 | Carey , 55 , who had spent most of his union career as president of the Teamsters ' New York branch , had been elected as president in the government-supervised elections of December 1991 , succeeding William J. McCarthy . |
21 | The variety of guests present , who included Chamorro 's Presidency Minister Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Joaquín Villalobos , the leader of the general command of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) in El Salvador , Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) , president of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) in Brazil , and Guatemala 's former President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , was seen as reflecting different political currents within the FSLN and its desire for increased political respectability . |
22 | The president of the troops ' representative organisation , Denis Whelan , described the circular as a slur on the character of his members and he urged them not to sign it . |