Sentences with 'tenure'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tenure and other words derived from it.
• « Almost from the beginning of his tenure, Pope Paul III was on the offensive: he commissioned a report in 1536 to assess the possibility and necessity of reform, which concluded that there were numerous abuses within the Church that needed to be corrected (e.g., the lack of education of the clergy, the practice of drawing revenue from parishes that the bishops never visited, etc.), but there was no change in doctrine. »
• « During Nikita Khrushchev's tenure as prime minister of the USSR, the "space race" joined the arms race as a centrepiece of Cold War policy. »
• « During Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as Soviet premier, another Eastern Bloc nation tried unsuccessfully to break away from Soviet domination: Czechoslovakia. »