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Example sentences for "president"

Lexicographically close words:
preses; preside; presided; presidencies; presidency; presidente; presidential; presidents; presidentship; presides
  1. The Association visited a dozen towns, and at each halt its President addressed an audience partly new, and partly composed of people who had been travelling with him for many weeks.

  2. Darwin had been President of the Royal Geographical Society.

  3. Vice-President of the International Geodetic Association, Lowell Lecturer at Boston U.

  4. During almost thirty years that he has been president of college faculty meetings, he has never once heard, from any member of the Faculty, any intimation that the girls in the class were in any way whatever a drag upon the class.

  5. But progress was all the while making in the right direction, though there were many failures and discouragements; and, best of all, there was the same nucleus that President Raymond speaks of, viz.

  6. To give an idea of some of the complications and perplexities which beset the infancy of this educational enterprise, I cannot do better than to quote at length from President Raymond's Report above named.

  7. Mahan, who was the first, and for fifteen years, President of Oberlin College, has since been for nearly as long a period the President of Adrian College, in this State.

  8. Extracts from the last two Reports of the President of Michigan University on this point will be found in the Appendix.

  9. Mr. Herder says so; and President Darcy says there are not two such young men seen in half a century as he and his brother.

  10. President Tuttle was written to, and a favourable answer received.

  11. President Darcy, of Mr. Herder's College, was the only other guest.

  12. That can only have been because you did not understand him," said the President equivocally.

  13. She joined herself to President Darcy, at the other side of the fire, and engaged him in talk with her about different gems and the engraving of them, so earnestly that she had no eyes nor ears for anybody else.

  14. President Tuttle had received them very kindly, and everything was promising; the boys in good heart, and their father a proud man.

  15. Socrates,' said the president of the court, 'what penalty do you yourself propose?

  16. If there had been a tie in the other two bouts this might have sufficed to give him the victory, or the president might have ordered a fresh trial.

  17. The president of the Eleven who was conducting the matter in person, as became an occasion so important, allowed a brief interview.

  18. Dracontius, accordingly, was made president of the games.

  19. You have done well, my son," said the president kindly, "and Athens will not forget it.

  20. After a fierce struggle both fell together, and fell in such a way that the president declared that neither had gained any advantage.

  21. The president now carefully read the document and passed it on to his colleagues.

  22. The president glanced at the document put into his hands, and whispering a few words to the messenger, pointed to a seat by his side.

  23. The president had a Spartan's admiration for all exercises that had a real bearing on military training, and the race of the heavy armed was unquestionably one of these.

  24. When at the end of the first act a change of scenery caused a longer pause than usual the president quietly left the theatre, taking the bearer of the despatch with him.

  25. The President endeavours to procure the liberation of Lafayette.

  26. Queries of the President respecting the conduct to be adopted by the American government.

  27. The house of representatives call upon the President for papers relating to the treaty with Great Britain.

  28. The President requests the recall of Genet.

  29. The President makes a tour through the southern states.

  30. Previous to taking any further step I thought it right to see the President of the Commission of Guides, who was also Syndic of the commune.

  31. This was placed in the hands of the President of the British Association, to whose prompt and powerful co-operation in this matter every Alpine explorer who aspires to higher ground than ordinary is deeply indebted.

  32. The Secretary of the Interior had given him carte blanche; the President trusted him, and it was said had granted him extraordinary powers.

  33. The business of the President is, not to show business people how they can make money, but to show the people their duty, and leave the rest to American ingenuity.

  34. The question of education is one that will receive early attention, and in which the President of the United States has personally evinced considerable interest.

  35. To this General Gomez answered that he received your Commissioner in precisely the same friendly spirit in which he knew the President had sent him thither.

  36. Porter, Havana: "The President sends his hearty congratulations and thanks for your despatch.

  37. He wished your Commissioner to assure the President he would do all in his power to aid in the work of reconstruction of Cuba.

  38. His name is Hamilton Lincoln Cornwallis; but he lives at number seven and a half Goat Alley, so I don't believe he's President yet.

  39. President of the Entomological Society of London.

  40. Propositions made by the boys, and duly seconded in a parliamentary manner, would be put to the vote, and the president would be charged to transmit such resolutions to the proper authorities.

  41. Footnote 1: This name, in honor of President Monroe, had recently been adopted by the Society at the suggestion of Robert Goodloe Harper, of Maryland, who also suggested the name Liberia for the country.

  42. Continuously there has been an observance of the forms of order, and only one president has been deposed.

  43. She presented to Roberts the Lark, a ship with four guns, and sent the President home on a war-vessel.

  44. On January 22 the Senate authorized a general investigation of the whole matter, a special message from the President on the 14th having revoked the civil disability of the discharged soldiers.

  45. Nott, President of Union College, at Albany in 1829.

  46. On the road the president thought he saw the general make an attempt to remove the handkerchief, and reminded him of his oath.

  47. Meanwhile, the president carelessly opened the letter which had been brought to him; but the first lines aroused his attention; he read them again and again, and fixing his eyes on M.

  48. The general was stout and tall, the president offered him the side of the railing to assist him in getting down.

  49. Haidee, still calm, but with a calmness more dreadful than the anger of another would have been, handed to the president the record of her sale, written in Arabic.

  50. The president resumed:-- "'I was on the spot at the death of Ali Pasha.

  51. The president rose, appointed three members to accompany him, and got into the carriage with the general after bandaging his eyes.

  52. Did you see the president at the minister's last night?

  53. The witnesses endeavored to insist, but the president bade them be silent.

  54. The astonished president looked at the jury, who in turn looked at Villefort.

  55. The president of the Volunteers was Professor John MacNeill, who had borne an honourable and distinguished part in the Gaelic League Revival.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "president" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

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