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Example sentences for "took office"

  • Hayes acted upon his conviction as soon as he took office, withdrew the troops, and turned over to the South her own problems.

  • A Liberal Government, headed by Sagasta, took office in Spain in October, 1897.

  • The Interstate Commerce Law was still new when he took office.

  • It has been said that in 1661, when he took office, there were but thirty armed ships, of which three only had over sixty guns.

  • They did not exist when he took office; they had to be both created and firmly rooted in order to withstand the blast of war.

  • From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious.

  • By the time I took office, we had a 1-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade.

  • Now, even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we'll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office.

  • When I took office, the Consumer Price Index was rising at 12.

  • First, one of our initial acts was to revise, with the cooperation of the Congress, the Budget prepared before this Administration took office.

  • Federal gun crime prosecutions are up 16 percent since I took office.

  • Since I took office, funding for AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health has increased dramatically to $1.

  • Jefferson, who while Minister to France had been closely connected with these proceedings, was called upon by Congress for a report upon them, not long after he took office as Secretary of State.

  • Combes with reducing all questions in which the French nation was interested to the single one of anti-clericalism, and the prime minister retorted that it was solely for that purpose that he took office.

  • Again, in the latter part of 1863 he took office: this time with Sir Frederick Whitaker as premier, an arrangement which endured for another thirteen months.

  • Clemenceau, who had been called to fill the vacancy, took office.

  • He had been in ill-health ever since he took office in 1804, the constant stress of responsibility, while the invasion was impending, having shattered his nerves.

  • Pitt, then, fell upon a fortunate time when he took office in December, 1783.

  • He announced that he took office to secure a space of rest from harassing legislation at home, and to defend the honour and interests of England abroad.

  • The Federal government's procurement from minority-owned firms has nearly tripled since I took office.

  • Real output has grown at an average rate of 3 percent per year since I took office, and employment has grown by 10 percent.

  • Our commitment to a Western Hemisphere safe from aggression did not occur by spontaneous generation on the day that we took office.

  • The budget in place, when I took office, had been projected as balanced.

  • My own opinions about Egypt were set forth in the "19th Century" a short time before we took office, and I am not aware as yet of having seen any reason to change them.

  • My own opinions about Egypt were set forth in the 'Nineteenth Century' a short time before we took office, and I am not aware as yet of having seen any reason to change them.

  • This, and the accident of his naming Edward Hamilton, with whom I was intimate, his private secretary when he took office in April in succession to Disraeli, were the links which led to our correspondence later on Egyptian affairs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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