Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] chairman " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doje Cering , a 52-year-old ethnic Tibetan , resigned as Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region on May 20 , ostensibly on the grounds of ill-health ; he was replaced on May 31 by Gyainvain Norbu . |
| 2 | Antonio Cafiero , governor of Buenos Aires province , resigned as chairman of the ruling Justicialist Party ( the official title of the Peronists ) on Aug. 6 following his emphatic defeat in a provincial referendum the previous day . |
| 3 | Dick Corden has resigned as chairman of Darlington 's relegation threatened football club . |
| 4 | Takeo Nishioka , a former Education Minister , was named as chairman of the party 's general council , and Mutsuki Kato , a former Agriculture Minister , was appointed chairman of the LDP 's policy research council . |
| 5 | Krustyu Petkov was named as chairman of the new confederation , having served as chairman of an interim CCTU executive committee since the December 1989 dismissal of former BCP politburo member Petur Dyulgerov as CCTU chairman [ see p. 37109 ] . |
| 6 | In August 1990 Charles Bigot was named as chairman and chief executive of Arianespace , the European consortium which manufactured the Ariane satellite launcher . |
| 7 | On May 1 Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser was named as chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) , the body which had assumed control of the country after a successful coup against President Joseph Momoh on April 30 [ see pp. 38552-54 ] . |
| 8 | At Sequoia , Gabriel Fusco has now quit as chairman as well as chief executive , to be replaced by Francis Hughes , who is co-chief executive . |
| 9 | Although an interim report was submitted in May 1942 , after which Shelmerdine was replaced as chairman by Lord Finlay , the committee 's main recommendations became the plank of British civil aviation policy for the next three years . |
| 10 | In January 1990 he had been replaced as chairman of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) by Clayton Yeutter , and had been given the largely ceremonial title of general chairman . |
| 11 | John Duggan , who was re-elected as chairman of the Castlewellan Hospital Support Group , made the plea at the group 's annual meeting . |
| 12 | David Morgan has retired as chairman and is succeeded by Keith Montague who was previously chairman of the supporters society ( The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society Limited ) , and who has been associated with the North Norfolk Railway for over 20 years . |
| 13 | McGregor , aged 67 , had recently retired as Chairman and Chief Executive of AMAX , Inc. , but was still a partner of Lazard Freres & Co , a New York investment bank . |
| 14 | W Bradford Wiley has retired as chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons Inc , though he is continuing as director of the company , and has been named chairman emeritus . |
| 15 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 16 | To be blunt , he was stitched up by outsiders ousted as chairman of the company he had created from nothing into one of the region 's biggest businesses . |
| 17 | He served as chairman in 1769 , 1770 , and 1772 , and was thus at the centre of public attention at a crucial stage in Anglo-Asian relations . |
| 18 | Attlee served as chairman of the Armistice Terms and Civil Administration Committee of the Cabinet , set up in November 1943 . |
| 19 | At the board 's quarterly meeting , Mr Buchanan voted for a Conservative councillor , Roy Thomson , who had been proposed as chairman , but the move failed . |
| 20 | At the board 's quarterly meeting , Mr Buchanan voted for a Conservative councillor , Roy Thomson , who had been proposed as chairman , but the move failed . |
| 21 | Harry Arnold had been appointed as chairman , and those present included Samuel Howard Whitbread and J. Arnold Whitchurch . |
| 22 | Bernard Axford F has been appointed as Chairman of the CIOB Membership Board to replace Robert Wharton , the Institute 's new President . |
| 23 | Tenure of office and superannuation of members 2. — ( 1 ) The Funding Council shall consist of not less than twelve nor more than fifteen members appointed by the Secretary of State , of whom one shall be so appointed as chairman . |
| 24 | Mabbut as chairman and the aim was to ‘ collect evidence on the nature and causes of environmental changes constituting extension of deserts into marginal regions or an intensification of desert conditions within desert regions ’ ( Mabbut , 1976 ) . |
| 25 | These have now been put in place , whilst in July 1976 Brezhnev was publicly identified as Chairman of this body as well as C.-in-C . |
| 26 | Mr Stockdale , who resigned as chairman of Eagle Trust two weeks ago , paid Mr Carway to locate assets purportedly owned by Eagle . |
| 27 | Its chairman is Lord Marshall , who resigned as chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board at the end of 1989 in protest against the government 's decision to abandon the British PWR programme . |
| 28 | Mobutu resigned as chairman of the MPR and appointed a Prime Minister ( First State Commissioner ) as head of government . |
| 29 | Bond resigned as chairman and director of Bond Corporation on Sept. 26 , 1990 , a move which was expected to pave the way for agreements on key refinancing arrangements . |
| 30 | Jules Wijdenbosch , expected to be a dominant figure in government policy-making , was confirmed as Prime Minister and became Vice-President and acting Finance Minister ; he resigned as chairman of the pro-military National Democratic Party ( NDP ) to take up his new posts . |