Use president in a sentence
Sentences starting with president
- President Wingfield appears to have taken soldierly precautions, but Smith was not at all pleased with him from the first. [4]
- President Wilson's international program is approved of and elaborated. [9]
- President Allen of Jefferson College says that his instruction has been successful in proportion as it has been elementary. [3]
- President The report being properly before the House now, I move to amend it by substituting for the name of Mr. Herrman that of Mr. Lucius Harris of St. Louis, who is well and honorably known to us all. [5]
- President Kirkland was at the head of the College, Henry Ware was Professor of Theology, Andrews Norton of Sacred Literature, followed in 1830 by John Gorham Palfrey in the same office. [6]
Sentences ending with president
- One was that we did not honor a family, or a dynasty, or a title, but a character; and the other was that we did not exalt any living man, but simply the office of President. [4]
- One of the two is to be President. [7]
- By telling the truth he could astonish his father; his father would tell the neighbours; the neighbours would spread it; it would travel to all firesides; in the end it would make him President, and not only that, but First President. [5]
- Even now the truer spiritual goal is glimpsed through the battle clouds, and has been hailed in world-reverberating phrases by our American President. [9]
- Let me prove to you that every vote withheld from Fremont and given to Fillmore in this State actually lessens Fillmore's chance of being President. [7]
- It is not to be expected that I should be useful as a real president. [5]
- There was a time when she hoped he would be a great scholar: there was no position so noble as that of a university professor or president. [4]
- Your despatch of three o'clock this afternoon to the Secretary of War has been received and shown to the President. [7]
- But I went there, with the President. [9]
- The Council was then sworn in, and Mr. Wingfield selected President. [4]
Short sentences using president
- The President lives there. [5]
- President, have I the floor? [5]
- President, I demand the floor. [5]
- The President said so. [5]
- He knows the President. [9]
- Ratcliffe was still President. [4]
- Mr. Ratcliffe was made President. [4]
- I was its first President. [5]
- He is only a President. [5]
- Thank the President. [9]
Sentences containing president two or more times
- The president knows that it is money fraudulently got, that really belongs to somebody else; and the gambler would feel that if the president takes it, he cannot think very disapprovingly of the manner in which it was acquired. [4]
- He had served successively as a disciple in the ranks; home missionary; foreign missionary; editor and publisher; Apostle; President of the Board of Apostles; President of all Mormondom, civil and ecclesiastical; successor to the great Joseph by the will of heaven; "prophet," "seer," "revelator. [5]
- Mr. Barbour, the president of our Railroad, was present, and nodded to me kindly; also a president of a smaller road. [9]
- It is that if it shall become necessary to repel invasion, the President may, without violation of the Constitution, cross the line and invade the territory of another country, and that whether such necessity exists in any given case the President is the sole judge. [7]
- He, was a church warden; president of a society for turning over crops (which he had organized); a member of the State Grange; president of the embryo State Economic League (whatever that was); and chairman of the Local Improvement Board--also a creation of his own. [9]
- There never has been a President in such constant and active contact with the public opinion of the country, as there never has been a President who, while at the head of the government, remained so near to the people. [7]
- Our instructions contemplate a personal interview between President Lincoln and ourselves at Washington City, but with this explanation we are ready to meet any person or persons that President Lincoln may appoint at such place as he may designate. [7]
More example sentences with the word president in them
- Is that what your president does? [11]
- But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
- Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
- Mr. President, are you going to grant it, or not? [5]
- It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
- Then the President wrote upon a paper before him, and it was passed to each member of the Court sitting with him. [11]
- Were you to write Ewing I fear the President would never hear of your letter. [7]
- They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. [5]
- If any man would like to be amused by a sight of that little thing which the President calls by that big name, he can have it by turning to Niles's Register, vol. [7]
- The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
- And this announcement, with which the president mingled his praises of the venerable Horapollo, had a powerful effect. [10]
- I have ridden with the President, and have gone with him on errands of mercy and errands of cheer. [9]
- Dissatisfaction arose evidently with President Wingfield's management. [4]
- Worthington and Duncan wired the President this morning, and they've gone up to the White House now. [9]
- Most of them will be wives, and every American-born husband is a possible President of these United States. [6]
- Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
- To all persons who shall be so released, and who shall keep their parole, the President grants an amnesty for any past offences of treason or disloyalty which they may have comminuted. [7]
- The chair in which the President sat, while declining to take a glass of lager I have had destroyed, in order that no one may sit in it. [4]
- The railroads of which I have the honour to be president pay a heavy tag in this and other States. [9]
- By the article which I have been reading I find the same things happening in the Howland School that we have become familiar with in our Children's Theatre (of which I am President, and sufficiently vain of the distinction. [5]
- Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne without which it was believed possible to keep the government on foot. [7]
- More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
- I didn't know what to say, but I did say this after a while:--"'W-well, Mr. President, I guess I've kept you long enough--g-guess you're a pretty busy man. [9]
- Orthodox though he were, there had been times when his humour had borne him upward toward higher truths, and he had once remarked that promising to love forever was like promising to become President of the United States. [9]
- If the President were in Washington I would telegraph him. [5]
- We might as well leave out the wrath of Achilles from the Iliad, as the anger of the President with Sumner from the story of Motley's dismissal. [6]
- Charles left for Washington, summons from President, in the midst of it. [9]
- Of course, I was very anxious to get a glimpse of the President, and so we went down to the wharf, where we heard that he had gone off for a horseback ride. [9]
- And now she was to behold a palace even greater than these,--and the house where the President himself dwelt. [9]
- And yet this was the President who had conducted the war, whose generals had conquered the Confederacy. [9]
- On the letter-head was printed "The United Northeastern Railroads," and Mr. Austen Vane was informed that, by direction of the president, the enclosed was sent to him in an entirely complimentary sense. [9]
- The Mukaukas himself was president, and his grown-up son was his natural deputy. [10]
- This remark, as was perhaps natural, did not improve the temper of the president of the Northeastern. [9]
- This particular question was one which he purposed to make the subject of his address as president of the Social Science Association, at its annual meeting in 1901. [4]
- When the fleet was first espied, the President thought it was Spaniards, and prepared to defend himself, the Indians promptly coming to his assistance. [4]
- For this he was condemned to be hanged; but "before he turned of the lather," he desired to speak privately with the President, and thereupon accused Mr. Kendall--who had been released from the pinnace when Wingfield was sent aboard--of mutiny. [4]
- You remember I was an old Whig, and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President, I would not do it. [7]
- The railroad president walked slowly to the arm of the chair in which his chief counsel was seated, and stood looking down at him. [9]
- The President was very sorry and all that, but that place, you see, didn't belong to the West, so there I was again. [5]
- The President has variety enough, but the quality! [5]
- The President himself values the evidence of the past. [7]
- In the distant valley of the Mississippi he had only heard of the President very conflicting things. [9]
- The President is urgent and anxious that your army should move against him by forced marches. [7]
- Mr. Flint looked up from the papers, and regarded him narrowly, for the tone in which this was spoken did not escape the president of the Northeastern. [9]
- The President and two others went gunning for birds, and brought down one hundred and forty-eight fowls with three shots. [4]
- He came here two months ago to be the President of this Fifth Street car line. [9]
- Well, we have tried a President four years, criticised him and found fault with him the whole time, and turned around a day or two ago with votes enough to spare to elect another. [5]
- The new President, too, seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to indorse and strongly construe that decision, and to express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained! [7]
- But the Professor, to whom this information was communicated, doubted whether here it was not a greater distinction to be the daughter of the owner of this region than to be connected with a President of the United States. [4]
- It is impossible to turn a fellow citizen whose vote may make his master--say, rather, employer--Governor or President, or who may be one or both himself, into a flunky. [6]
- As an offset to this, the Jethro forces gain on the extreme right, where the Honorable Peleg Hartington is made President of the Senate, etc. [9]
- They went down to the rail, and the railroad president cast his eye over the House. [9]
- Smith, our President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Powhatan, he made known to Capt. [4]
- Ought the president to take the money, knowing how it was made? [4]
- I didn't get to see the President or the Chief Magistrate either, though I had sort of a glimpse of a lady at a window who resembled her portraits. [5]
- And the excursion, to Janet, took on the complexion of a sort of glorified picnic in the course of which, incidentally, a President of the United States had been chosen. [9]
- Comets were portents to Increase Mather, President of Harvard College; "preachers of Divine wrath, heralds and messengers of evil tidings to the world. [6]
- And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. [9]
- The President liked to hear the Colonel talk, his voluble ease was a refreshment after the decorous dullness of men who only talked business and government, and everlastingly expounded their notions of justice and the distribution of patronage. [5]
- Why, I've got to go to the President with the petition and the delegation, and get the appointment, haven't I? [5]
- Who was he to fling back an annual pass in the face of the president of the Northeastern Railroads? [9]
- The President listened to every word with intense interest. [9]
- All you have to do is to tell the President that you want it for him. [9]
- I shall have to decline standing upon it, because the president of the company tells me that I shall not have time to wait until it is brought to me. [7]
- These appointments are to continue during the pleasure of the President, not extending beyond the military occupation of the city of New Orleans or the restoration of the civil authority in that city and in the State of Louisiana. [7]
- I went out to Cambridge one day a few years ago and called on President Eliot. [5]
- They are known to be bitter enemies, and it is said that Jethro Bass has but one object in returning to the field--to crush the president of the Truro Railroad. [9]
- I am directed to add that the Secretary of War and the General-in-chief fully concur with the President in these directions. [7]
- Why, there was times when I clean forgot he was President of the United States. [9]
- If at any time she shall vacate that office, the Directors of the College (that is to say, Mrs. Eddy) "shall" elect to the vacancy the President of the Board of Education (which is merely re-electing herself). [5]
- I was goin' through the barber shop," Mr. Hartington continued, speaking to Jethro and ignoring the railroad president, "and I heard somebody whisperin' my name. [9]
- Many readers will think that the simple record of Mr. Seward's unresisting acquiescence in the action of the President is far from being to his advantage. [6]
- Dickinson, privately, doesn't think much of Ribblevale paper, and Pugh" (the president of the Ribblevale) "seems worried and looks badly. [9]
- In the evening they had a dinner-party, at which were present, among others, Professor Stokes, President of the Royal Society, and Professor Wright. [6]
- According to Diodorus, there was a president of the thieves' caste, from whom the stolen goods could be reclaimed on relinquishment of a fourth part of the same. [10]
- And I heard them say something about the President going back on them when they had telegraphed from Chicago and come to see him here. [9]
- And he told them all about his several dignities, and how he had held this and that and the other place of honor or profit, and had once been to the legislature, and was now president of the Society of Freethinkers. [5]
- I called at the White House, and got admission to Col. Rodgers, because I wanted to inquire what was the right hour to go and infest the, President. [5]
- The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. [4]
- This ass with the unpronounceable name was probably more insane than usual this week or two back, and may get back upon his bearings by and by, but he was over the sanity-border when he shot the President. [5]
- The President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, received a letter professing to be written from the Hotel Meurice, Paris, dated October 23, 1866, and signed "George W. M'Crackin, of New York. [6]
- The President of the United States used to send for him and consult him, because he wanted no office; he knew men, and it was a relief to talk with a liberal rich man of so much bonhomie who wanted nothing. [4]
- The President of the United States is only the engine driver of our broad-gauge mail-train; and every honest, independent thinker has a seat in the first-class cars behind him. [6]
- The President of the United States has directed: 1st. [7]
- The leaders of the timely white "deliverers" were President Haight and Bishop John D. Lee, of the Mormon Church. [5]
- One essay on the subject was prepared for the meeting held at Washington in May, 1900, of the American Social Science Association, of which he was president. [4]
- The windows filled, the streets ahead of us became choked, as the word that the President was coming ran on like quick-fire. [9]
- Absently he rang the stable bell, surrendered his horse, and followed a footman to the retired part of the house occupied by the railroad president. [9]
- The president of the society, Mr. Hamilton Fish, introduced the speaker as one "whose name belongs to no single country, and to no single age. [6]
- The president of the society came up and bathed my head with cold water, and said: "What made you carry on so toward the last? [5]
- In compliance with the Sixty-fifth Article of War, these whole proceedings are transmitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid before the President of the United States. [7]
- Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in the midst of a great civil war, with unprecedented duties weighing upon him, was constantly in person debating the great features of his policy with the people. [7]
- The President of the Senate, the Hon. [9]
- The president of the senate had listened with a penitent mien and bowed head, but now he recovered his presence of mind and exclaimed indignantly: "The people die, the town and country are going to ruin, plague and horrors rise up from the river. [10]
- The President ordered the removal of that motto from the coin, and I thought that it was well. [5]
- Its President was the rector of the little chapel, a man who, in spite of the Thirty-Nine Articles, could stand fire from the widest-mouthed heretical blunderbuss without flinching or losing his temper. [6]
- He also accepted the raised seat, which the president quitted in his honor while he himself took one of the ordinary chairs at his side. [10]
- But we have the Queen, and the President of the United States, and several other distinguished persons, if we may trust what they tell about themselves. [6]
- It must be the President, Susan Posey,--President James Buchanan. [6]
- I said to the President, says I, 'Grant, why don't you take Santo Domingo, annex the whole thing, and settle the bill afterwards. [5]
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