Named and usually endowed university professorship.
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Examples for "chair "
Examples for "chair "
1 She was also chair of the African Union Commission until last year.
2 The general and Totski exchanged looks; Gania fidgeted convulsively in his chair .
3 I'd say you just work on your form and lose the chair .
4 Festival Board chair Kirsten Sibbit said they had not seen that happen.
5 When he came in, I was in the chair ; but I rose.
1 Ihara was named chair of the compensation committee and sits on the nominations committee.
2 He was named chair of the group in 2011 after a lengthy search for a replacement for Ratan Tata.
3 Former Finance Minister Sir Michael Cullen has already been named chair the group, whose first meeting is expected towards the end of next month.
4 The letter was also signed by Elizabeth Duke, a former Federal Reserve governor named chair of Wells Fargo's board last year in a broader overhaul.
1 A magic resideth even in his academic chair .
2 Shall the pulpit, the academic chair , the high court of the finer literature, alone be dumb?
3 To all those belauded sages of the academic chairs , wisdom was sleep without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life.
4 During her time at Oxford, she occasionally ruffled the feathers of her fellow dons, especially when it came to appointing academic chairs .
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This collocation consists of: Translations for academic chair