Example sentences of "[be] [verb] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultra Network Technologies Inc 's vice president of sales Michael Paul has been named president and chief executive officer of the company following the departure of the incumbent Ray Fortune . |
| 2 | Claris Japan Inc , established on February 1 , is capitalised at $800,000 and Douglas Boake , managing director of Asia-Pacific operations at Claris , has been named president . |
| 3 | James Meehan , Lotus Development Corp former vice president and general manager , international operations , has been named president and chief executive officer of Cambridge , Massachusetts-based CenterLine Software Inc . |
| 4 | Jim Harris , a member of the SCO board of directors since 1988 , has been named president and CEO in his place . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Philip Huelson , Sparc International vice president and technology director , has been named president and chief operating officer of the organisation responsible for operations and development of new business activities . |
| 6 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 7 | Coun Edward Turner , of Middlesbrough , who had been Meet President two years earlier , had the idea of raising £1,000 to equip the voluntary training corps — the home guard of the First World War . |
| 8 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 9 | Compaore had been re-elected President in elections in December 1991 which were boycotted by opposition parties [ see p. 38665 ] . |
| 10 | On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place . |
| 11 | My right hon. Friend will be meeting President Bush this evening after my right hon. Friend 's arrival in New York to chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council . |
| 12 | Even more humiliating was his belief that Mary , not Jennie , should be made president and managing director . |
| 13 | The ramifications of these doubts are reflected in a poll by Time magazine and CNN , which shows 53 per cent of voters do not think Mr Clinton is honest and trustworthy enough to be president ; 67 per cent think he would say anything to be elected president ; and 62 per cent say he is not someone they would be proud to have as president . |
| 14 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 15 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy was , at 43 , the youngest man ever to be elected President of the USA . |
| 16 | Any Soviet citizen of at least 35 but no more than 65 years old could be elected President of the USSR , albeit for a maximum of two terms . |
| 17 | At the resumed talks it was agreed that Petur Mladenov , the State Council President and former Foreign Affairs Minister , would be elected President of Bulgaria ( his formal election being carried out by the Assembly on April 3 ) , but would be replaced when a newly elected legislature approved a new constitution . |
| 18 | Dr Kim Yong Bock , a close friend of WACC , has been appointed President of the Hamil Theological Seminary in Korea . |
| 19 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 20 | Eric Newman has been appointed president of the US medical and scientific publisher Appleton & Lange . |
| 21 | John Morgan , deputy chief executive and general manager XEU , has been appointed president , BP Exploration Alaska , one of several changes in the senior management team in Aberdeen effective from January 1994 . |
| 22 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 23 | Americans have been saluting Presidents by means of song since George Washington 's time , one Philip Phile composing ‘ The President 's March ’ which was supposedly played at Honest George 's inauguration . |
| 24 | While the seeming inexorable logic of events points to Mr Havel being named president , opposition figures stressed that the presidency issue was secondary to the priority of swiftly forming a new , stable and strong government . |
| 25 | The international singer songwriter said he was ‘ flattered and honoured ’ at being appointed President of the club Board . |
| 26 | In 1757 , on being elected president , he became rector of Hanborough . |
| 27 | The Central Council of Hungarian Trade Unions ( SZOT ) was relaunched as a sovereign organization at a congress on March 2 , 1990 , with Sandor Nagy being elected president . |
| 28 | Petur Beron on Dec. 3 announced his intention to resign as chair of the UDF co-ordinating council ( he had succeeded to that post after Zhelev had resigned it in August upon being elected President ) . |
| 29 | The reshuffle featured the return to the Cabinet of Jean-Marie Soisson , who had resigned from a Cabinet post in March after being elected President of the Regional Council for Burgundy [ see p. 38821 ] . |
| 30 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |