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  • Though he is now a tenured full professor, he stops wearing jackets and ties to the university.†   (source)
  • It goes like this: I, the undersigned, Artur Christoff Phillipe Gerard Grimaldi Renaldo, agree that my sole offspring and heir, Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, may finish out her high school tenure at Albert Einstein School for Boys (made coeducational circa 1975) without interruption, save for Christmas and summer breaks, which she will spend without complaint in the country of Genovia.†   (source)
  • Under different circumstances, he would have gotten tenure that June.†   (source)
  • And at the mention of Hoyt's name he remembered another priest, one who had disappeared on Hyperion halfway through his own tenure there.†   (source)
  • Still, Michael Oher was only a few weeks into his tenure at the Briarcrest Christian School before several teachers suggested he should be on his way out.†   (source)
  • And a few short weeks ago, his tenure as a pizza deliverer-the only pointless dead-end job he really enjoys-came to an end.†   (source)
  • Murphy told Congress that during his tenure at the Grand Island plant, Monfort maintained two sets of injury logs, routinely lied to OSHA, and shredded documents requested by OSHA.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounds irritated and impatient, like some of Dad's tenured colleagues at school who Dad says are just counting the days till retirement.†   (source)
  • After the phone call, my mom lay on her bed, shaking her head while sobbing in-between bursts of how God had cursed her for some sin, how I was the devil incarnate, a plague, testing her in this brief tenure on earth.†   (source)
  • Even as a tenured professor who could afford something better, I lived in a $450-a-month attic apartment with a fire-escape walkup.†   (source)
  • Tenure.†   (source)
  • Once a year, Eden Hall was filled with music that had outlasted humanity's tenure on Earth.†   (source)
  • He was about to become a tenured Harvard professor.†   (source)
  • This would be her first big trial as a superior court judge, the one that set a tone for the rest of her tenure on the bench.†   (source)
  • The Youth League took as their model the Indian community's mass resistance to the South African government's Asiatic Land Tenure Act which severely limited the rights of Indians.†   (source)
  • 1,00o MARKS "These are the faces of every Resistance fighter I've hunted down, every Scholar I've jailed and executed, most before my tenure as Commandant.†   (source)
  • I did not mean to impugn Brom's judgment, only I am impatient beyond reason; we have so little time, and each new thing you must learn reduces that which you can master during your tenure here.†   (source)
  • Amy was the tiniest and the most obnoxious of the new crop of Eminemlettes, and she was smitten with Little Janet, who despite her two-year tenure in prison seemed to have no idea how to handle a middle-school crush.†   (source)
  • Nothing so surprising had happened in his whole tenure as deputy.†   (source)
  • He'd be pressured to publish incessantly to get tenure.†   (source)
  • Harlon Block's tenure as the heir to Mike Strank lasted until dusk.†   (source)
  • He's got tenure, though, and he's never been caught at anything completely untoward.†   (source)
  • Every stratum of the Brown society is represented here-from godlike tenured don to midlevel administrators, assistant and associate profs, grad students and lowly undergraduates.†   (source)
  • And incredibly, Thomas Stone, too, had a brief tenure at Government General Hospital, though since the maternity section was quite separate, there'd been no reason for his path to cross with Hema's.†   (source)
  • Not at all the way she wanted to end her tenure at Millennium.†   (source)
  • Vergennes, speaking for the King, offered praise for "the wise conduct that you have held to throughout the tenure of your commission," as well as "the zeal with which you have constantly furthered the cause of your nation, while strengthening the alliance that ties it to his Majesty."†   (source)
  • For a while he was crazy, and then he went to college, where he fit in because half of the student body was crazy too, with youth, and the faculty with tenure.†   (source)
  • He didn't think his tenure in the position would be lasting, and he sorely hoped to leave the post with his neck intact.†   (source)
  • And yet I can think of no student during my tenure as Director who has been more deserving.†   (source)
  • By the time World War II ended his tenure there in 1939, Khrushchev had overseen the arrest and murder of almost every member of the local party leadership.†   (source)
  • A Southern man is incomplete without a tenure undermilitary rule.†   (source)
  • The tenure of judges concerns how long they stay in office, how they will be paid, and precautions for their responsibility.†   (source)
  • Mort the Wart had never shown such tendencies, had been King Log throughout tenure.†   (source)
  • At 65, Ian Ballantyne had accepted the fact that his tenure at the Yard was over, but not the use of his professional skills.†   (source)
  • What Ralph would have done then to leave with him — good-by, Old Chao and his tenure-track job offer!†   (source)
  • When Leonard Il-Francis, Count of Thurn and Taxis, died in 1628, his wife Alexandrine of Rye succeeded him in name as postmaster, though her tenure was never considered official.†   (source)
  • If so, my tenure in this world is short.†   (source)
  • Senators would not stand for re-election every two years—indeed, Alexander Hamilton suggested they be given life tenure—and a six-year term was intended to insulate them from public opinion.†   (source)
  • "We like to keep our tenured scientists comfortable," Kohler explained.†   (source)
  • Throughout his tenure, the camerlegno's steadfast devotion had become legendary.†   (source)
  • I once put "get tenure" on my to-do list.†   (source)
  • "Wow, you got tenure early," they'd say to me.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to remember this when your tenure case comes up," he said.†   (source)
  • The Friday Night Solution I GOT TENURE a year earlier than people usually do.†   (source)
  • I wished all of those tenured professors would just chew faster.†   (source)
  • One coworker recalled advice I gave him when he was a non-tenured faculty member.†   (source)
  • Which meant that she would have had to start her tenure at SMP with damaging cutbacks in staff.†   (source)
  • This had become a job with lifetime tenure.†   (source)
  • For not getting a tenured position at Sterling College?†   (source)
  • My vision had acquired a longer range; it had deepened and broadened in my tenure at the school.†   (source)
  • But judges with a temporary tenure cannot be expected to have this strength.†   (source)
  • This duty is a strong argument for the lifetime tenure.†   (source)
  • Ralph wasn't going to get tenure; or at least it wasn't definite.†   (source)
  • Federal judges with lifetime tenure would hear the cause first.†   (source)
  • And with what had might he had striven for tenure!†   (source)
  • His very first class with tenure, due to a shortage of space, was in a tower.†   (source)
  • There are good reasons for judges to have a lifetime tenure, during good behavior.†   (source)
  • He strove to appear sure he would get tenure.†   (source)
  • Temporary tenure would have great disadvantages.†   (source)
  • He taught proudly, like a great professor, a professor everyone agreed deserved his tenure.†   (source)
  • Of course, he had always been convinced he would get tenure.†   (source)
  • Then there were lecturers, then there were assistant professors, then there were tenured professors.†   (source)
  • During my thirty-four-year tenure as a climber, I'd found that the most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the sport's emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility.†   (source)
  • "Before you hit that Hatfield kid," Al was saying, "I had talked the Board out of letting you go and even had them swung around to considering tenure.†   (source)
  • Still, Pearson had to be more mindful of the concerns of black residents than at the beginning of his career—even if that mindfulness didn't translate into any substantive changes during his tenure.†   (source)
  • Laura, on the other hand, had taken to religion in a serious way during Mr. Erskine's tenure: she was still frightened of God, but forced to choose between one irascible, unpredictable tyrant and another, she'd chosen the one that was bigger, and also farther away.†   (source)
  • Once she has a job, a real full-time tenure-track job, she reminds herself, things will be different.†   (source)
  • The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.†   (source)
  • After I got tenure, I brought Tommy and others on my research team down to Disney World as a way of saying thanks.†   (source)
  • Show Gratitude NOT LONG after I got tenure at the University of Virginia, I took my entire fifteen-person research team down to Disney World for a week as my way of saying thank you.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he thought I was setting a precedent that other soon-to-be-tenured professors would be unwilling to equal.†   (source)
  • "You're not even tenured yet.†   (source)
  • Bea Shrope, affectionately known as Mum, had been working at Rowan for decades, but her tenure meant nothing to Bellagrog.†   (source)
  • He heard mentions of her childhood, her friends and family, and her experiences among the Varden, which she spoke about most freely, describing raids and battles she participated in, treaties she helped to negotiate, her disputes with the dwarves, and the momentous events she witnessed during her tenure as ambassador.†   (source)
  • Safely inside these gates, she can now pick up a dose of black culture pasteurized by ambition, whether it's a tweedy, just tenured black professor talking about radicalism at a coffee klatch or fellow black achievers partying hard this week because next week is already blocked out for studying.†   (source)
  • Translated two leaves more of Justinian …. and am now reading over again Gilbert's section of feudal tenures," he wrote the day following, October 6.†   (source)
  • We were not able to talk as freely during Van Rensburg's tenure as we had been before, but we were able to talk nonetheless while we worked.†   (source)
  • "I have read Gilbert's first section, of feuds, this evening but I am not a master of it," he recorded October 5, referring to Sir Geoffrey Gilbert's Treatise of Feudal Tenures.†   (source)
  • During the early part of Willemse's tenure, in 1971-2, there was a steady influx of captured MK soldiers.†   (source)
  • But he also knew that every eye in the Connecticut Valley was on him-maybe even in the whole Northeast-and that he was up for tenure at Sterling.†   (source)
  • In my tenure at the Institute, I never saw a cadet in serious trouble who did not request aninterview with the Bear as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • Badenhorst's tenure, we hoped, would simply be a dip on the graph of the steady improvement of our conditions.†   (source)
  • But I had learned something during my tenure on the court: None of these boys received pleasure from hearing the drummers begin their slow dirge in front of second battalion.†   (source)
  • But the members of the committee explained that Bishop's Court had become multiracial under Tutu's tenure, and symbolized an open, generous nonracialism.†   (source)
  • One morning in early 1967, during Suitcase's tenure, we were preparing to walk to the quarry when Suitcase informed us that an order had come down from Major Kellerman forbidding us to talk.†   (source)
  • The convention acted wisely in copying from the constitutions that have established good behavior as the tenure for judges.†   (source)
  • Together with lifetime tenure, it makes federal judges more independent than any of the State judges.†   (source)
  • Temporary tenure would tend to throw the administration of justice into hands less able and less well qualified.†   (source)
  • If Ralph gets tenure, this, they said.†   (source)
  • The structure of the federal judiciary includes: the method of appointing judges, their tenure in office, and the judicial authority of the different courts and their relationship to each other.†   (source)
  • No one seemed to mind that Old Chao had not only been granted tenure but was now acting chairman of Ralph's department.†   (source)
  • Tenure†   (source)
  • The department had approved his tenure, the College of Engineering had approved it, the university had approved it.†   (source)
  • Permanent/Lifetime Tenure†   (source)
  • For our income, they figured out how much I'll make, added that to how much Ralph will make once he gets tenure.†   (source)
  • A real estate agent had convinced them that they shouldn't do anything until Ralph had tenure; otherwise they might find themselves "overcommitted.†   (source)
  • But when, shortly after they hung the shelf, Ralph was blessed with a tenure-track job (Old Chao had put in a word for him), they thanked their parents for whatever help they might have been.†   (source)
  • Before he made it, he would have said that he yearned for a larger tenure than any department could grant; to go with his professional tenure, a sort of life tenure.†   (source)
  • Another, but over and over, with a collective sigh, the company was dragged back to its apparent fate, congratulating Old Chao on having received a tenure-track job offer just that afternoon.†   (source)
  • If Ralph gets tenure, that.†   (source)
  • BUT HE just got tenure!†   (source)
  • Tenure.†   (source)
  • Tenure, tenure, tenure.†   (source)
  • Tenure?†   (source)
  • You just got tenure.†   (source)
  • Tenure!†   (source)
  • TENURE.†   (source)
  • And now, with tenure.†   (source)
  • Whenever they saw me in the county office building, they would curse Mrs. Brown with red faces and swear to the forces that ruled the underworld that she was personally responsible for sabotaging a hundred different sets of statistics in her tenure on Yamacraw Island.†   (source)
  • George Norris met with both success and failure in his long tenure in public office, stretching over nearly a half a century of American political life.†   (source)
  • Early in 1867, Congress enacted over the President's veto the Tenure-of-Office Bill which prevented the President from removing without the consent of the Senate all new officeholders whose appointment required confirmation by that body.†   (source)
  • For twenty years later Congress repealed the Tenure-of-Office Act, to which every President after Johnson, regardless of party, had objected; and still later the Supreme Court, referring to "the extremes of that episode in our government," held it to be unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • Of the eleven Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House, the first eight were based upon the removal of Stanton and the appointment of a new Secretary of War in violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act; the ninth related to Johnson's conversation with a general which was said to induce violations of the Army Appropriations Act; the tenth recited that Johnson had delivered "intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues …. as well against Congress as the laws of the United States";…†   (source)
  • She leant on them; on cubes and square roots; that was what they were talking about now; on Voltaire and Madame de Stael; on the character of Napoleon; on the French system of land tenure; on Lord Rosebery; on Creevey's Memoirs: she let it uphold her and sustain her, this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, like iron girders spanning the swaying fabric, upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly, even…†   (source)
  • IT TAKES SOME OF US a long time to find out what the price is of being in nature, and what the facts are about your tenure.†   (source)
  • Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.†   (source)
  • He was the youngest son of his father, a poor parson at the other end of the county, and had arrived at Talbothays Dairy as a six months' pupil, after going the round of some other farms, his object being to acquire a practical skill in the various processes of farming, with a view either to the Colonies or the tenure of a home-farm, as circumstances might decide.†   (source)
  • No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding my inability to settle to anything,—which I hope arose out of the restless and incomplete tenure on which I held my means,—I had a taste for reading, and read regularly so many hours a day.†   (source)
  • As soon as land was held on any other than a feudal tenure, and personal property began in its turn to confer influence and power, every improvement which was introduced in commerce or manufacture was a fresh element of the equality of conditions.†   (source)
  • But all this is not applicable to men already enlightened who retain their freedom, after having abolished from amongst them those peculiar and hereditary rights which perpetuated the tenure of property in the hands of certain individuals or certain bodies.†   (source)
  • On one side of the road rose a high, rough bank, where hazels and stunted oaks, with their roots half exposed, held uncertain tenure: the soil was too loose for the latter; and strong winds had blown some nearly horizontal.†   (source)
  • I remember well that the slaves, convinced of the precarious tenure on which they held their lives, passed whole days and nights in praying, crying, and groaning.†   (source)
  • Hence Sir Leicester yields up his family legs to the family disorder as if he held his name and fortune on that feudal tenure.†   (source)
  • He saw just the same thing in the socialistic books: either they were the beautiful but impracticable fantasies which had fascinated him when he was a student, or they were attempts at improving, rectifying the economic position in which Europe was placed, with which the system of land tenure in Russia had nothing in common.†   (source)
  • The Leather-Stocking is much given to impeach the justice of the tenure by which the whites hold the country.†   (source)
  • He accompanied her up the hill, explaining to her the details of his forthcoming tenure of the other farm.†   (source)
  • For upwards of twenty years before this epoch, the independent position of the Collector had kept the Salem Custom-House out of the whirlpool of political vicissitude, which makes the tenure of office generally so fragile.†   (source)
  • Of their legal tenure there could be no question; but old Matthew Maule, it is to be feared, trode downward from his own age to a far later one, planting a heavy footstep, all the way, on the conscience of a Pyncheon.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure.†   (source)
  • After this he remarked to Mrs. Penniman that if she walked so slowly she would attract notice, and he succeeded, after a fashion, in hurrying her back to the domicile of which her tenure had become so insecure.†   (source)
  • Now, however, it took no great sensibility to feel that poor Ralph's tenure of life was less elastic than it should be.†   (source)
  • There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further…†   (source)
  • This must especially be the case, in those great centralized monarchies in which the number of paid offices is immense, and the tenure of them tolerably secure, so that no one despairs of obtaining a place, and of enjoying it as undisturbedly as a hereditary fortune.†   (source)
  • Not that the inhabitants of the South regard slavery as necessary to the wealth of the planter, for on this point many of them agree with their Northern countrymen in freely admitting that slavery is prejudicial to their interest; but they are convinced that, however prejudicial it may be, they hold their lives upon no other tenure.†   (source)
  • Suffice it here to say that a Custom-House officer of long continuance can hardly be a very praiseworthy or respectable personage, for many reasons; one of them, the tenure by which he holds his situation, and another, the very nature of his business, which—though, I trust, an honest one—is of such a sort that he does not share in the united effort of mankind.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER LI The Countess was not banished, but she felt the insecurity of her tenure of her brother's hospitality.†   (source)
  • As the men who live there are frequently left to the efforts of their individual powers of mind, they are almost always a prey to doubt; and as their situation in life is forever changing, they are never held fast to any of their opinions by the certain tenure of their fortunes.†   (source)
  • All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property—not only are they possessed of property, but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.†   (source)
  • He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.†   (source)
  • Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.†   (source)
  • What a pulse-quickening idea to the nontenured!†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontenured means not and reverses the meaning of tenured. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • The professor walked in, a young guy in a turtleneck and jacket, the uniform of the with it professors of the day,-he had that edge of the untenured, too eager, too many handouts, too many please feel frees on his syllabus, a home number as well as an office number.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untenured means not and reverses the meaning of tenured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The following are lawfully /the Hon./, but only during their tenure of office: the solicitor-general, the speaker of the House of Commons, the presidents and speakers of the provincial legislatures, members of the executive councils of the provinces, the chief justice, the judges of the Supreme and Exchequer Courts, the judges of the Supreme Courts of Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the judges of the Courts of…†   (source)
  • The tenure by which they are to hold their places.†   (source)
  • Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?†   (source)
  • The king would be the most absolute prince in the universe, if he could but prevail on a ministry to join with him; but these having their estates below on the continent, and considering that the office of a favourite has a very uncertain tenure, would never consent to the enslaving of their country.†   (source)
  • The tenure by which the judges are to hold their places, is, as it unquestionably ought to be, that of good behavior.†   (source)
  • Call me a fool; Trust not my reading nor my observations, Which with experimental seal doth warrant The tenure of my book; trust not my age, My reverence, calling, nor divinity, If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here Under some biting error.†   (source)
  • It ought, moreover, to possess great firmness, and consequently ought to hold its authority by a tenure of considerable duration.†   (source)
  • As to the tenure by which the judges are to hold their places; this chiefly concerns their duration in office; the provisions for their support; the precautions for their responsibility.†   (source)
  • The tenure of the ministerial offices generally, will be a subject of legal regulation, conformably to the reason of the case and the example of the State constitutions.†   (source)
  • Every reason which recommends the tenure of good behavior for judicial offices, militates against placing the judiciary power, in the last resort, in a body composed of men chosen for a limited period.†   (source)
  • According to the provisions of most of the constitutions, again, as well as according to the most respectable and received opinions on the subject, the members of the judiciary department are to retain their offices by the firm tenure of good behavior.†   (source)
  • According to all the constitutions, also, the tenure of the highest offices is extended to a definite period, and in many instances, both within the legislative and executive departments, to a period of years.†   (source)
  • Upon the whole, there can be no room to doubt that the convention acted wisely in copying from the models of those constitutions which have established GOOD BEHAVIOR as the tenure of their judicial offices, in point of duration; and that so far from being blamable on this account, their plan would have been inexcusably defective, if it had wanted this important feature of good government.†   (source)
  • If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.†   (source)
  • In the constitution of the judiciary department in particular, it might be inexpedient to insist rigorously on the principle: first, because peculiar qualifications being essential in the members, the primary consideration ought to be to select that mode of choice which best secures these qualifications; secondly, because the permanent tenure by which the appointments are held in that department, must soon destroy all sense of dependence on the authority conferring them.†   (source)
  • This provision for the support of the judges bears every mark of prudence and efficacy; and it may be safely affirmed that, together with the permanent tenure of their offices, it affords a better prospect of their independence than is discoverable in the constitutions of any of the States in regard to their own judges.†   (source)
  • There was a common head, chieftain, or sovereign, whose authority extended over the whole nation; and a number of subordinate vassals, or feudatories, who had large portions of land allotted to them, and numerous trains of INFERIOR vassals or retainers, who occupied and cultivated that land upon the tenure of fealty or obedience, to the persons of whom they held it.†   (source)
  • It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it; will be less attached to what he holds by a momentary or uncertain title, than to what he enjoys by a durable or certain title; and, of course, will be willing to risk more for the sake of the one, than for the sake of the other.†   (source)
  • It is SUFFICIENT for such a government that the persons administering it be appointed, either directly or indirectly, by the people; and that they hold their appointments by either of the tenures just specified; otherwise every government in the United States, as well as every other popular government that has been or can be well organized or well executed, would be degraded from the republican character.†   (source)
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