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Example sentences for "directorship"

Lexicographically close words:
directorate; directorates; directorial; directories; directors; directory; directress; directrix; directs; direful
  1. In 1764 he was called to the chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia, and this post he held, together with the directorship of the observatory of Brera, for six years.

  2. Simon, an expedition was sent out to the Orient in the autumn of 1886, under the auspices of the Royal Prussian Museums of Berlin, and under the directorship of B.

  3. On Christmas day 1903 an expedition sent out by the Oriental Exploration Fund of the University of Chicago, under the directorship of Professor R.

  4. The Americans had indeed sent out an expedition to Babylonia as early as 1884 under the directorship of Dr.

  5. Great importance was attached to this production, because, at the same moment, Meyerbeer was inaugurating his general-directorship in Berlin by a performance of the same work.

  6. His opponents, Edward Cunard, John Jacob Astor, John Steward and other owners of the New York Central thus saw the directorship pass from their hands.

  7. A bargain was agreed upon by which Drew was to resume directorship and represent Vanderbilt's interests and purposes.

  8. There is, I know, a scientific body under the directorship of Professor Gregory of Yale for the thorough research of ethnological materials among the races of the Pacific.

  9. This will put an end to the easy assumption of the directorship of several corporations at once by men whose names are wanted; directorship will be made to imply actual attention to the affairs of the business.

  10. But, be that as it may, what do you think you could do with a real live art directorship if you had it?

  11. He did not know, being new to the art directorship of a newspaper, how very difficult it was to get increases for those under him.

  12. He was very anxious to tell Eugene something, for he had heard of a change coming in the art directorship of the Summerville Company and he fancied for one reason and another that Eugene might be glad to know of it.

  13. Spohr's appointment to the directorship of the court theatre at Cassel occurred in the winter of 1822, and he confesses his pleasure in the post, as he believed he could make its fine orchestra one of the most celebrated in Germany.

  14. At Ancona, Tartini attained such reputation as a player and musician that he was appointed, in 1721, to the directorship of the orchestra of the church of St. Anthony at Padua.

  15. But it was while burdened with the directorship that Sir Joseph was called to the highest administrative office in science in Great Britain.

  16. Regius Chair of Botany in Glasgow and the Directorship of the Royal Gardens at Kew.

  17. They started alone for England that night, and Aristide returned to the directorship of the Agence Pujol.

  18. After this came the Prince's directorship of the Ancient Concerts, and the arrangement of its programmes on special occasions by himself.

  19. His dictionary of music will survive when the honourable record of his Directorship of the Royal College of Music may be forgotten.

  20. Amongst the numerous scientific associations are the central statistical department, and the Budapest communal bureau of statistics, which under the directorship of Dr Joseph de Körösy has gained a European reputation.

  21. Two years later he was offered the directorship of the Conservatory in Moscow, but he declined it.

  22. In 1894 Rimsky-Korsakov gave up the assistant directorship of the Imperial Chapel.

  23. Have you received an offer from Prague to take the directorship of the Conservatorium there?

  24. As he flew along the street, and jumped into the first cab he could find, the bank and his directorship went as completely out of his mind as if they had been a hundred years off.

  25. Thus he had obtained the highest honours of his profession, and it was this and not the bank directorship which had filled him with triumph.

  26. It was in the summer of the third year of his bank directorship that Robert made his first personal entry into business.

  27. He had not known before how much he could do, nor what privileges his directorship put in his hands, and he was confused by the discovery.

  28. The great misfortune of his life, and temporarily at least, a severe blow to American astronomy, were associated with his directorship of the Dudley Observatory at Albany.

  29. The lamented death of Professor Winlock in 1875 left vacant the directorship of the Harvard Observatory.

  30. It was mounted in the year following, and then Holden stepped from the presidency of the university into the directorship of the observatory.

  31. He refused the directorship of that gigantic undertaking, which, after having been abandoned for nearly sixty years, was again taken up, under the name of the Panama Canal, by M.

  32. Thirty years later Mr Montefiore also refused to take a leading part or directorship in the Suez Canal Company, which M.

  33. Mr. Mahler, having laid down the directorship of the Court Opera at Vienna, was brought to New York by Mr. Conried, and his coming had raised high the expectations of the lovers of German opera.

  34. Auber was not appointed to the directorship of the Conservatoire until the year 1842.

  35. Delaunay, who was accidentally drowned in 1873, Le Verrier was restored to the directorship of the observatory, and he continued to hold the office until his death.

  36. In 1861 Challis retired from the Directorship of the Cambridge Observatory, and Adams was appointed to succeed him.

  37. The directorship of the Conservatoire was offered me.

  38. In 1905 the directorship was offered me again, but I refused for the same reason.

  39. After my retirement from the directorship of these concerts he left the orchestra and went into business as a music-seller.

  40. His experience and ability made his full coöperation in the directorship desirable and this had a great deal to do with the purchase.

  41. In 1911 Perkins retired from the Morgan firm, at the same time retiring from all active business except his directorship in various companies, chief among which were the Steel Corporation and the International Harvester Co.

  42. And all will be well with you, for I shall see to your advancement through the years, and you shall come at length to the directorship of all the prisons of Cho-sen.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "directorship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acme; archbishopric; aristocracy; authority; authorization; bishopric; board; chair; championship; chancellery; chieftaincy; command; consulate; control; custody; deanery; dictatorship; direction; directorate; directorship; dominion; effectiveness; episcopacy; executive; generalship; guardianship; height; helm; hierarchy; highest; influence; jurisdiction; kingship; leadership; lordship; magistracy; management; managership; mastership; mastery; maximum; mayoralty; most; nobility; palm; papacy; paramountcy; pontificate; power; prefecture; presidency; primacy; principality; protectorate; record; regency; rule; say; sovereignty; stewardship; supremacy; sway; zenith