7 sentences with 'post'
Example sentences and phrases with the word post and other words derived from it.
• « By 23 BC, he assumed the post of tribune for life, the post that allowed him unlimited power to make or veto legislation. »
• « Heraclius was originally a governor who returned from his post in Africa to take the throne from a rival named Phocas in the midst of a Persian invasion. »
• « Interestingly, Kepler did his work while holding a post as official imperial mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who overlooked the fact that Kepler was a Protestant because he (Rudolf) was so interested in science - and this was against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, no less! »
• « The Social Democratic Party of Germany itself represented a major shift in the identity of socialism after the revolutions of 1848. While early socialists rarely organised themselves into formal political parties - not least because most states in Europe before 1848 were not democracies of any kind - socialists in the post-1848 era became increasingly militant and organised. »
• « The first woman to hold a university post in France was the famous Marie Curie, whose work was instrumental in understanding radiation. »
• « To get an appointment to a particular post within the party, other party members had to go through Stalin. He shrewdly used this fact to cement political relations and influence, so that at Lenin's death he was well positioned to seize power. »
• « They resumed their journey in the evening and, at 3:30 a.m., stopped less than 500 metres from a Chinese military post. »