Office Sentence Examples
I've repaired the computers in your office, too.
All my mail goes to a post office box.
From the window of his office, the path was clearly visible.
Alex decided to build a room upstairs for his office, out of the reach of Destiny's exploring hands.
Her father looks in at us morning and evening as he goes to and from his office, and sees her contentedly stringing her beads or making horizontal lines on her sewing-card, and exclaims, "How quiet she is!"
Alpatych went to the shops, to government offices, to the post office, and to the Governor's.
She peeked around the door again just in time to see him walk into the office and close the door.
The return address was the Doctor's office in Chicago.
We moved to Howie's office where she spread out the charts and papers.
Well, he has a home office and he goes there pretty often, but I can't figure out what he's doing.
AdvertisementShe left the post office feeling better about Russell Cade than she did about herself.
By the time Eisenhower left office, this had changed, and a dedicated military industry existed.
With every step up to the office where Señor Medena waited, he dreaded the conversation.
Darting down the stairs, she ran to the stage office, arriving as the driver was preparing to climb into the seat.
When picking up her mail at the post office, she often talked to Adrena.
AdvertisementI am in no hurry to resign my office and be planted, you may be sure.
When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office and explained to them his intentions and wishes.
The case, as represented by the offended parties, was that, after seizing the transports, Major Denisov, being drunk, went to the chief quartermaster and without any provocation called him a thief, threatened to strike him, and on being led out had rushed into the office and given two officials a thrashing, and dislocated the arm of one of them.
Since his current office was directly across from their bedroom, it seemed a better place for babies that Alex said could be born early.
As she passed his office, she glanced through the open door.
AdvertisementIf I hadn't been summoned to Detective Jackson's office, I would have gone there anyway.
During his campaign and his time in office, the extent of the effect of his polio was kept from the public, but the fact he had the disease was commonly known.
When medical records leave the paper folders of the doctor's office and become highly standardized, more analysis can be done.
He works from home and has a night job remotely monitoring real-time security cameras after hours at an office building.
The system had an office, Overseer of the Poor, in each of 1,500 parishes.
AdvertisementIn the offices and shops and at the post office everyone was talking about the army and about the enemy who was already attacking the town, everybody was asking what should be done, and all were trying to calm one another.
Is it for my own pleasure that I am at the farm or in the office from morning to night?
They moved Alex's office upstairs and began work on the nursery.
Señor Medena asked Carmen and Alex to come to his office with him.
She walked hesitantly to his office.
The post office might know something.
This isn't an office.
He was like from the head shed— the home office.
Cynthia ushered the group down the hall to their office, out of earshot and out of sight.
Looking around, she spotted his office and went in, uninvited.
Dean knew Fred O'Connor was scheduled for release and that necessitated a dreaded trip to the sheriff's office.
He filled a thermos of coffee—no one could drink Weller's brew—and wasted no time in arriving at the sheriff's office.
Beat Fitzgerald in the election and then start your term of office chasing down some ancient murder if you want.
Most of the lodgers were about their daily activities, with Fred off to the post office, Maria doing her duties with her usual exuberance, and the Deans hovering close by.
I took the key from the office and made a copy.
He stood and headed for the door, shutting off the light as he left his home office.
Catching him up on things at the office had been simple enough, as someone was there to visit him several times a week.
Alex was finishing supper with his family when the telephone rang in his office.
He strode to his office and picked up the telephone receiver of the land line.
Alex glanced out the office door cautiously.
She pulled up Dr. Wynn's office number on her cell, tempted to invite him to the beach this weekend instead of Logan.
Dr. Wynn stood in the middle of his office.
With a deep breath, Wynn turned away and retreated to his office.
There was no computer, no office supplies on the other side.
The black lady's tone left no imagination to what she thought of the latest deadbeat mom in her office.
She'd spent several hours in his office talking to a dead man?
The death dealer stood at the edge of the shadows as he had across from the doctor's office, waiting.
She sat in the general manager's office of the fast food joint where she'd worked for six months.
The office was small but clean and smelled of fried food.
On her way back to her room, she poked her head into Kris.s secretary.s office.
Hoping they.d fix his Rhyn problem for him, he entered the castle and headed straight to the office of his personal secretary.
Another idea emerged from his dark thoughts, and he trotted out of the secretary.s office and to Katie.s chamber.
We haven.t been able to record everyone.s names yet, but what we have is in the guestbook in the office, down that hall, last door on the right, the woman replied, pointing to a hallway behind her.
She maneuvered through sculptures and other exhibits on the floor to the small office in the back.
Kevin crossed his office to the small safe and drew out a small pile of cash.
Comfortable in the plush office chair, she propped her feet up on her desk and continued to sketch until the picture began to look as she wanted it to.
He kissed Cynthia good-bye and strolled the sun-lit streets the short distance to Sheriff Jake Weller's office behind the courthouse.
By 1913, the post office was closed and the town had dwindled to two dozen remaining souls, and before long, it was left to indigenous wildlife and the spirits of a boisterous past.
He gave his stepson an I-told-you-so look and retreated to the Dean's office and quarters in the rear.
The trio sat around the office desk, looking over one another's shoulders at the neat handwriting in the old notebook.
She gestured toward the leather sofa against the office wall.
The sofa in the office would be fine and you could leave the door to your bedroom open, just a pinch.
First off, I have to go to the Post Office.
I understand opportunities were limited a century ago but surely she could have been a school teacher or office clerk or something above a brothel prostitute.
They're paying us for tranquility, not to witness your domestic problems, which should be handled in private, in a lawyer's office.
Donnie joined the old man in the back office.
Dean put out the office light and undressed for bed.
I run a good office, but I do it my way, but my way isn't good enough now-a-days.
He wandered back to his office, listening to only silence as he passed Ryland's door.
Sheet-covered, her remains lay in Dean's office, only feet from where she had lain naked against him so short a time before.
Dean tried to ignore Edith Shipton's body as he passed the temporary catafalque erected in his office.
I have to go by a lawyer's office.
Donald isn't coming to the lawyer's office because he doesn't want to see Shipton if he doesn't have to.
He dialed Sheriff Jake Weller's office while Fred continued to question him, but he waved him off with a shake of his head.
No, I should get home to shower and change, then head to the office.
Maybe I'll go into the office for a while.
He's at the office; he'll be here shortly.
He had a few things to do at the office.
I thought I would head to the office around eight forty-five.
The drive to Connor's office passed uncomfortably.
Connor had started back at the office and returned home from court.
With the glass in one hand and the letter in another, he sauntered into his office.
Loosening his tie, he dropped into the leather office chair and picked up the envelope.
Retracing his steps to the office, he retrieved the picture.
The nickname had been given him by three other salesmen at the office.
He just came from the office.
I haven't given you enough to keep the office entertained for a while?
I was concerned that you would insist on checking out too early, so I stopped by the office to see what arrangements could be made for paying your bill.
I went from the office to class and then from class to the plane.
She woke early the next morning and dressed, making a trip to the office before Alex arrived.
Gerald leaned against the office wall with one shoulder, watching him absently.
After he left, Alex picked up the picture and sat down in the plush office chair for the last time.
Few pleasant memories lay behind him in that office.
Alex turned toward the stairs, avoiding the front office.
You need me to contact any of your companions or anyone else from the office?
She wiped her face and whirled, following the doc into his office.
I turned her into something I could use in my office to open more doors for our cause.
Just the barracks and office areas had been attacked.
Few people were out in the streets, but the front office area of the building held several women who had turned it into a living room.
She changed and placed her micro and vault into her pockets then followed Kelli out of the warehouse, through the front office space and into the street.
We were then sent to the guidance office so they could work up a schedule for me.
The motel consisted of 40 units on two floors, ten to either side of a main entrance that led to the office and restaurant.
Dean muttered an apology to his superior and left the lieutenant's office.
When Dean telephoned the office of World Wide Insurance Company, his luck was no better.
Dean, unable to concentrate further on his files, pushed closed his desk drawer, packed a tape recorder in his briefcase, and left the office.
Dean usually devoted the solitary time behind the wheel to sorting out details of a case, putting little facts in their slots like letters in a country post office.
I'm surprised the office even bothered with a send off party.
He replaced me in Scranton when I got this promotion here to the head office.
The office said he wrapped it up Monday—was supposed to take off first thing Tuesday morning.
How often was Byrne out of the office?
Mayer turned to Dean as he and the detective moved back to Mayer's office.
The vehicle was in police custody in Norfolk but the authorities there said it would be released to the World Wide local office shortly.
He was in better shape than half the office, by Mayer's assessment.
Mayer promised to send the full file with Byrne's picture from the now near-closing personnel office, located in another building.
I wasn't even in the office yesterday.
By the time he left the office for the ten-minute walk across the square to the courthouse, he felt comfortable with the progress of the case.
As Dean climbed the steep steps, Bobby Witherspoon from the District Attorney's office caught up with him.
He got down on his knees, right there in my office.
His office must have mixed his file up with someone else.
That's pretty much the picture the local office gave me.
The two detectives entered the office, and the clerk, a bored and balding retiree, looked up from a crossword puzzle and, recognizing Hunter, frowned.
His last day was Friday but he stuck around because Byrne was coming down from the head office with his last paycheck.
The office confirmed he and Byrne went out to have a drink or three, just the two of them.
The head office didn't think much of him either.
We're checking with the Post Office for a change of address.
The insurance boys at the local office are picking it up tonight.
Looks like he recorded it when he got here, then put another 23 miles on it, running to the office and around town.
We checked a couple of bars local to the World Wide office but they were crazy-busy after-work places and no one remembers diddly.
A little bell jingled in the empty office as Dean entered and an unshaven man in his sixties took his time sauntering out from behind a curtain, hoisting up his suspenders as he moved behind the desk.
The door to Leland Anderson's office was closed when Dean arrived, and Lenny Harrigan was the only detective at his desk.
He turned on his heels and returned to his office.
In view of the lateness of the hour, Dean pulled into a pay phone and called the office to check his messages.
He called Ethel Rosewater first, catching her at the office.
Dean stopped by the office later in the afternoon to clean up a few details as he wouldn't be back in the office for two days— tomorrow, the safe house, Thursday a day off.
Dean wished he'd brought the picture of Jeffrey Byrne that World Wide had recently sent but it remained in the case file at the office.
It's most likely the girl from his office, Cece what's-her-name.
I know that office.
He couldn't keep his hands off half the office.
They parked close to the building and, leaving the engine running, Dean made a dash for the office.
There was an office pool on how long it would be before Willie would float in.
Dean eased into the latest news by first telling of Winston's unsuccessful inquiry about a Post Office forwarding address before mentioning his conversation with Mrs. Glass.
The Jeffrey Byrne Mayer eulogized was a far different man than Mayer had described in his Philadelphia office.
And it certainly didn't help the mood of the office.
Willie Wassermann had popped up, so to speak, on Thursday morning, so Dean was 65 dollars richer from the office pool.
I charge him for the office space and clerical help but we operate independently.
But the wife didn't come to the office so he was probably faking it.
He came in after the office was closed, put his money in an envelope and was gone in the morning.
Sighing deeply, he told Rita he was finished for the day, jogged down the stairs to his car, and fought the late afternoon crosstown traffic to Ethel Rosewater's office.
The two women in the outer office of the Rosewater and Atherton suite looked up and started to say something as Dean waltzed by to Ethel's closed-door chamber.
Dean hurriedly left the office before Ethel showed.
It was a mistake typing the note—Jeffrey Byrne's office said he didn't type.
You worked for the contractor who built the World Wide office building in Scranton so you were at the opening dedication party there.
Alex wrote a check, pocketed the bill of sale and title, and then they all walked out of the office.
He was heading for his office, so she decided to take the opportunity for some alone time of her own.
Smiling, she went to his office and turned on the computer.
Shutting the computer down, she left the office.
Alex came out of his office, glanced at her and then retired to his recliner to read the newspaper.
That evening he received a call in his office.
When he came back out of the office he was smiling.
She was cleaning out the refrigerator when the land line rang in the office.
He strode back to his office and picked up the receiver.
She sat in the doctor's office waiting for the results of the test, and when he came in smiling, she relaxed.
The open floor plan ran from the living area through a kitchen to a formal dining room area that had been converted into an office on the other side.
Alex glanced up from his computer when she walked into his office.
Call the employment office.
Monday morning while Felipa took the men riding and the children were coloring, Carmen used her new cell phone to call the employment office.
Felipa watched the children while Carmen took Sam to the office.
They were alone in his office at the time.
In fact, he was spending more and more time in his office, working on his computer.
Stopping by the employment office, she contracted for temporary help to put up the fence.
After supper Alex went upstairs to work in his office.
You were working in your office and I've done this before.
She called the employment office and they rescheduled the three men they were going to send to help put up the fence.
Alex was talking to a man in his office.
The office was busy.
Carmen walked out of the office without talking to anyone.
Carmen's stomach twisted into a knot as she followed him upstairs to his office.
He pointed to his office.
We sat right up there in my office the day Morino died and you were the one who mentioned divorce, not me.
The copper tray hit the bottom of the can with a loud clatter, spewing ashes into the stale office air.
Mr. O'Hara wouldn't tolerate discord in the office.
Even the smoggy Los Angeles air outside had to be better than the stale air in the office.
The decision made, she marched from the room and locked her office door.
I work at the real estate office downstairs from your suite.
Was her position at the office merely the creation of a doting father?
That will give me two days to get my office organized.
Things have been so hectic here at the office, I thought...
How are things going at the office?
Mr. O'Hara erupted from his office and knelt beside her.
But Los Angeles wasn't all of California, and Megan was toying with the idea of opening another office further north.
Did you check the office?
She explored one hallway and found two guest bedrooms and an office, all decorated in the same cold, impersonal colors.
Bored after another tour around, she returned to the office to examine the books lining one wall.
It's like going to the doctor's office.
He led her out of the open bay into an office area.
But this latter term of office was destined to be even shorter than his former one had been.
In July 1865, when politics had shifted from the basis of the 1861 Constitution, he laid down office, and retired from public affairs.
This office existed in the German kingdom of Otto the Great, and about this time it appears to have become an appanage of the archbishopric of Mainz.
However this may be, during the 12th century the elector of Trier took the title of archchancellor for the kingdom of Arles, although it is doubtful if he ever performed any duties in connexion with this office.
This threefold division of the office of imperial archchancellor was acknowledged in 1356 by the Golden Bull of the emperor Charles IV., but the duties of the office were performed by the elector of Mainz.
He is said to have established the rule that any candidate for the office should meet and slay in single combat its holder at the time, who always went about armed with a drawn sword in anticipation of the struggle.
Wade was appointed to the post of collector in the first instance, and after a short tenure of office was succeeded by Mr II.
During his tenancy of office the system adopted at Shanghai was applied to the other treaty ports, so that when on Mr Lay's resignation Mr Hart was appointed inspector-general of foreign customs, he found himself at the head of an organization which collected a revenue of upwards of eight million taels per annum at fourteen treaty ports.
The establishment of a post office in the town helped the town attract new businesses.
Landing at Nice on the 24th of June 1848, he placed his sword at the disposal of Charles Albert, and, after various difficulties with the Piedmontese war office, formed a volunteer army 3000 strong, but shortly after taking the field was obliged, by the defeat of Custozza, to flee to Switzerland.
No person holding a lucrative office under the state or the United States, no salaried officer of a railroad company, and no officer of any court of record is eligible for membership in either house.
The agency by which these principles were introduced was the edicts of the praetor, an annual proclamation setting forth the manner in which the magistrate intended to administer the law during his year of office.
This office he held until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of Ripon.
During his three years of office as resident he was able to render not a few valuable services to the Company; but it is more important to observe that his name nowhere occurs in the official lists of those who derived pecuniary profit from the necessities and weakness of the native court.
Macaulay imputes this reduction to Hastings as a characteristic act of financial immorality; but in truth it had been expressly enjoined by the court of directors, in a despatch dated six months before he took up office.
A new judicial office was created in the name of the Company, to which Sir Elijah Impey was appointed, though he never consented to draw the additional salary offered to him.
A peerage was openly talked of as his due, while his own ambition pointed to some responsible office at home.
With the crystallization of the feudal system in the 12th century the office of vidame, like that of avoue, had become an hereditary fief.
In 1832 he was knighted, and after serving as one of the municipal corporations commissioners, became deputykeeper of the public records in 1838, holding this office until his death at Hampstead on the 6th of July 1861.
He then joined Gambetta's cabinet as minister of commerce and the colonies, and in the 1883-85 cabinet of Jules Ferry he held the same office.
The first series contained six essays, the most notable being that "On the office of a Chaplain," which throws much light on the position of a large section of the clergy at that time.
In 1718 was published a new Communion Office taken partly from Primitive Liturgies and partly from the first English Reformed Common Prayer Book,..
He was afterwards appointed the prince's envoy at Paris, where he remained till the decree of Napoleon, forbidding all persons born on the left side of the Rhine to serve any other state than France, compelled him to resign his office (IS'I).
He resigned office on the 23rd of January 1 793, two days after the king's execution.
An ardent opponent of Catholic Emancipation, he delivered in 1807 a speech on the subject which helped to give the deathblow to the Grenville administration, upon which he became chancellor of the exchequer under the duke of Portland, whom in 1809 he succeeded in the premiership. Notwithstanding that he had the assistance in the cabinet of no statesman of the first rank, he succeeded in retaining office till he was shot by a man named Bellingham, a bankrupt with a grievance, who had vainly applied to him for redress, in the lobby of the House of Commons on the 11th of May 1812.
He was high sheriff of Wiltshire during 1647, and displayed much vigour in this office.
He had been accused of vanity and ostentation in his office, but his reputation for ability and integrity as a judge was high even with his enemies.
When the office increased in importance the mayors of the palace did not, as has been thought, pursue an identical policy.
In this third part Aquinas discusses the person, office and work of Christ, and had begun to discuss the sacraments, when death put an end to his labours.
The term "curate" in the present day is almost exclusively used to signify a clergyman who is assistant to a rector or vicar, by whom he is employed and paid; and a clerk in deacon's orders is competent to be licensed by a bishop to the office of such assistant curate.
Many cases occur where such an office was hereditary; thus the family of Callias at Athens were proxeni of the Spartans.
We find the office mentioned in a Corcyraean inscription dating probably from the 7th century B.C., and it continued to grow more important and frequent throughout Greek history.
There is no proof that any direct emolument was ever attached to the office, while the expense and trouble entailed by it must often have been very great.
His rule was most energetic; but while he favoured the barbarians in the imperial service, and appointed them to high office, Valentinian, openly jealous of his minister, sought to surround himself with Romans.
In 1653 he returned to London, and having denounced Cromwell for accepting the office of Lord Protector he was imprisoned.
Among the principal buildings are the First National bank, the immense Union station and the Saint Vincent hospital; besides several fine office and school buildings (including the beautiful manual training high school) and churches.
He was now firmly established in the favour of the king, who gave him successively the abbacy of St Severin, in the diocese of Poitiers, the office of almoner to the dauphiness, and in 1685 the bishopric of Lavaur, from which he was in 1687 promoted to that of Nimes.
Avicenna was even raised to the office of vizier; but the turbulent soldiery, composed of Kurds and Turks, mutinied against their nominal sovereign, and demanded that the new vizier should be put to death.
The fact that the kings were often absent from England, and that the justiciarship was held by great nobles or churchmen, made this office of an importance which at times threatened to overshadow that of the Crown.
The roll is preserved in the record office, Dublin.
Fenwick Williams. In 1861 he became director-general of engineers at the War Office, assisting General Milutin in the reorganization of the army.
The encyclical letter is accompanied by sixty-three resolutions (which include careful provision for provincial organization and the extension of the title "archbishop" to all metropolitans, a "thankful recognition of the revival of brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and of the office of deaconess," and a desire to promote friendly relations with the Eastern Churches and the various Old Catholic bodies), and the reports of the eleven committees are subjoined.
He also was provost of Edinburgh at various times, and it is a remarkable instance of the esteem in which the lairds of Merchiston were held that three of them in immediate lineal succession repeatedly filled so important an office during perhaps the most memorable period in the history of the city.
In 1582 Sir Archibald was appointed master of the mint in Scotland, with the sole charge of superintending the mines and minerals within the realm, and this office he held till his death in 1608.
The office, Mark Napier states, is repeatedly mentioned in the family charters as appertaining to the "pultre landis" near the village of Dene in the shire of Linlithgow.
The pultrelands and the office were sold by John Napier in 1610 for 1700 marks.
The qualifications for the office were fixed in each town by a special law for that community (lex municipalis).
The decuriones held office for life.
He holds his office ad vitam aut culpam; he cannot demit it or be deprived, of it without consent of the presbytery.
He takes precedence, Primus inter pares, of all the members, and is recognized as the official head of the Church during his term of office.
This has led in some quarters to a desire that the moderator should be clothed with greater responsibility and have his period of office prolonged; should be made, in fact, more of a bishop in the Anglican sense of the word.
The duty of teaching and of administering the sacraments and of always presiding in church courts being strictly reserved to him invests his office with a dignity and influence greater than that of the elder.
They are laymen in that they have no right to teach or to dispense the sacraments, and on this account they fill an office in the Presbyterian Church inferior in rank and power to that of the pastors.
To share with the minister such general oversight is not regarded by intelligent and influential laymen as an incongruous or unworthy office; but to identify the duties of the eldership, even in theory, with those of the minister is a sure way of deterring from accepting office many whose counsel and influence in the eldership would be invaluable.'
Presbyterian discipline is now entirely confined to exclusion from membership or from office.
By them he was to be ordained, after vowing to be true in office, faithful to the church system, obedient to the laws and to the civil government, and ready to exercise discipline without fear or favour.
When a church was first formed the office bearers were elected by the people, but there the power of the congregation ceased.
As a rule elders held office for only two years.
Cranmer held that the consecration of a bishop was an unnecessary rite, and not required by Scripture; that election and appointment to office were sufficient.
An act of the New Jersey legislature in 1895 created the office of township president, with power of appointment and veto.
In 1819 he removed with his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he attended the local academy for two years, studied law in the office of his uncle, William Allen,' and in 1835 was admitted to the bar, becoming his uncle's law partner.
His term of office is six years, and neither he nor the vice-president is eligible for the next presidential term.
His period of office was marked by the rapid advance of Buenos Aires in population and prosperity, and by an expansion of trade that was unfortunately accompanied by financial extravagance.
He assumed office in October 1880.
Considering the circumstances in which General Roca assumed office, it must be admitted that he showed great moderation and used the practically absolute power that he possessed to establish a strong central government, and to initiate a national policy, which aimed at furthering the prosperity and development of the whole country.
Unfortunately the last two years of Roca's term of office were marked by two grave errors, which subsequently caused widespread suffering and distress throughout the country.
The Union Civica then decided to make a bold bid for freedom by attempting forcibly to eject Celman and his clique from office.
It is little wonder that, in these circumstances, the choice of a successor to Pellegrini, whose term of office expired in 1892, should have been felt to possess peculiar importance.
The population of Buenos Aires assembled in armed bodies with the avowed intention of ejecting the governor from office, and electing in his stead a man who would give them a just administration.
One of the first steps of President Roca, after his accession to office, was to arrange a meeting with the president of Chile at the Straits of Magellan.
First there is the office or cabinet of the prefect for the general police (la police gnrale), with bureaus for various objects, such as the safety of the president of the republic, the regulation and order of public ceremonies, theatres, amusements and entertainments, &c.; secondly, the judicial police (la police judiciaire), with numerous bureaus also, in constant communication with the courts of judicature; thirdly, the administrative police (la police administrative) including bureaus, which superintend navigation, public carriages, animals, public health, &c. Concurrently with these divisions there is the municipal police, which comprises all the agents in enforcing police regulations in the streets or public thoroughfares, acting under the orders of a chief (chef de la police municipale) with a central bureau.
The naval prefect is assisted by a rearadmiral as chief of the staff (except at Lorient and Rochefort, where the office is filled by a captain), and a certain number of other officers, the special functions of the chief of the staff having relation principally to the efficien.cy and personnel of the fleet, while the major-general, who is usually a rear-admiral, is concerned chiefly with the materiel.
The ordnance department of the navy is carried on by a large detachment of artillery officers and artificers provided by the war office for this special duty.
He was appointed in 1911 to succeed Earl Grey as governor-general of Canada, retiring from this office in 1916.
Since July 1899, when the post office in Salem was made a sub-station of that of Winston, the cities (officially two independent municipalities) have been known by postal and railway authorities as Winston-Salem.
Although holding an office of subordinate rank, he was the chief defender of the government in the House of Commons, and during the time that Pitt was in opposition had to bear the brunt of his attacks.
But in 1756, when the government was evidently approaching its fall, an unexpected vacancy occurred in the chief justiceship of the king's bench, and he claimed the office, being at the same time raised to the peerage as Baron Mansfield.
His chief celebrity, however, is founded upon the consummate ability with which he discharged the civil duties of his office.
Driven from it in 1795, he was restored by Lucien Bonaparte, during whose time of office he served as secretary to the prefecture of the Upper Marne.
From England he passed to the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and on his return to the Peninsula in 1796 was appointed official translator to the foreign office.
In 1808 Moratin was involved in the fall of Godoy, but in 1811 accepted the office of royal librarian under Joseph Bonaparte - a false step, which alienated from him all sympathy and compelled him to spend his last years in exile.
The highest office in connexion with the Cinque Ports is that of the lord warden, who also acts as governor of Dover Castle, and has a maritime jurisdiction (vide infra) as admiral of the ports.
The emoluments of the office are confined to certain insignificant admiralty droits.
Walmer Castle was for long the official residence of the lord warden, but has, since the resignation of Lord Curzon in 1903, ceased to be so used, and those portions of it which are of historic interest are now open to the public. George, prince of Wales (lord warden, 1903-1907), was the first lord warden of royal blood since the office was held by George, prince of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne.
King in his office of Admiralty, 1831, 2 Hagg.
Dr Phillimore's patent had a grant of the "place or office of judge official and commissary of the court of admiralty of the Cinque Ports, and their members and appurtenances, and to be assistant to my lieutenant of Dover castle in all such affairs and business concerning the said court of admiralty wherein yourself and assistance shall be requisite and necessary."
The office of marshal in the high court is represented in this court by a serjeant, who also bears a silver oar.
Gesner was then rector, an office to which Ernesti succeeded in 1734.
The principal square is the Plaza de Bolivar, the conventional centre of the city, in which stands a bronze equestrian statue of Bolivar, and on which face the cathedral, archbishop's residence, Casa Amarilla, national library, general post office and other public offices.
In England this power was frequently employed during the 18th century and was confirmed by the Post Office Act of 1837; its most notorious use being, perhaps, the opening of Mazzini's letters in 1844.
In 1667 Theophile de Besiade, marquis d'Avaray, obtained the office of grand bailiff of Orleans, which was held by several of his descendants after him.
There are some 6686 post-offices throughout the Commonwealth, or about one office to every 600 persons.
The judicial powers are vested in a high court and other federal courts, and the federal judges hold office for life or during good behaviour.
It was not long, however, before the party itself became divided on the fiscal question; and a Protectionist government coming into power, about half the Labour members gave it consistent support and enabled it to maintain office for about three years, the party as a political unit being thus destroyed.
During the first six years of federation there were five ministries; the tenure of office under the threeyearly system was naturally uncertain, and this uncertainty was reflected in the proposals of whatever ministry was in office.
He served on various royal commissions, and from 1877 was the chairman of the managing body of the meteorological office.
Among other prominent buildings are the court house, the post office and the city hall.
Lowe was a rather cut-anddry economist, who prided himself that during his four years of office he took twelve millions off taxation; but later opinion has hardly accepted his removal of the shilling registration duty on corn (1869) as good statesmanship, and his failures are remembered rather than his successes.
In 1873 he was transferred to the Home Office, but in 1874 the government resigned.
The former Royal Dockyard was made over to the War Office in 1872 and converted into stores, wharves for the loading of troopships, &c. The Royal Artillery Barracks, facing Woolwich Common, originally erected in 1775, has been greatly extended at different times, and consists of six ranges of Brick building, including a church in the Italian Gothic style erected in 1863, a theatre, and a library in connexion with the officers' mess-room.
This charter provided that no war could be declared nor marriage concluded by the sovereign, nor taxes raised without the assent of the states, that natives were alone eligible for high office, and that the national language should be used in public documents.
At the time of her accession to office Charles changed the form of administration by the creation of three separate councils, those of State, of Finance, and the Privy Council.
During his term of office he aided Publius Clodius in bringing about the exile of Cicero.
The Straits Settlements - Singapore, Malacca and Penang - were ruled from India until 1867, when they were erected into a crown colony under the charge of the Colonial Office.
Notwithstanding this, in 1849 he accepted the office of minister of religion and education, which he held in 1860 under the autocratic and centralizing administration of Schwarzenberg and Bach.
The crisis of 1860, by which the office he held was abolished, was the end of his official career; for the rest of his life he was very prominent as the leader of the Federalist party in Bohemia.
There was a gild merchant and also a town bailiff, but the latter office was of little real significance and was soon dropped.
Women have the right to vote in all elections relating to schools and school officers in cities, towns and graded school districts, and also the right to be elected to any local school position or to the office of township clerk.
Died in office on the 7th of February 1870; succeeded by the lieutenant-governor.
A large part of the modern town lies south of the square de la Republique; in this quarter are the law courts, hotel de ville, post office and other public buildings.
On retiring from office Seward returned to the practice of law.
The Protector and the council together were given a life tenure of office, with a large army and a settled revenue sufficient for public needs in time of peace; while the clauses relating to religion "are remarkable as laying down for the first time with authority a principle of toleration," 2 though this toleration did not apply to Roman Catholics and Anglicans.
By a bull of 1264 Urban made the festival, hitherto practically confined to the diocese of Liege, obligatory on the whole Church,' and a new office for the festival was written by Thomas Aquinas himself.
A post office was established here in 182 9, and the village was incorporated in 1861.
Connexion is made into the office (or to the underground system, as is often the case) from the aerial wire by means of a copper conductor, insulated with gutta-percha, which passes through a " leading in " cup, whereby leakage is prevented between the wire and the pole.
The perforation of the paper when done by hand is usually performed by means of small mallets, but at the central telegraph office in London, and at other large offices, the keys are only used for opening air-valves, the actual punching being done by pneumatic pressure.
An experimental printer constructed about the middle of 1908 by the British Post Office, operated successfully at the rate of 210 words (1260 letters) per minute.
Scudamore, second secretary to the Post Office, to inquire and report whether the electric telegraph service could be beneficially worked by the Post Office, and whether it would entail any very large expenditure on the.
With regard to the statement that the companies had installed competitive systems and had expended capital needlessly, it was found by the Post Office authorities that in 1865 less than 2000 m.
The excess expenditure caused the Post Office during two or three years to make temporary application of Savings Banks' balances to telegraph expenditure, an expedient which was disapproved of by both the Treasury and the House of Commons.
Probably no more arduous task was ever thrown upon a public department than that imposed on the Post Office by the transfer.
At that date the superintending and managing staffs of the Post Office comprised 590 persons, the staff of the old companies with only about one-third of the traffic having been 534 persons.
A further cause has been competition offered by the telephone service, but against this the Post Office has received royalties from telephone companies and revenue from trunk telephone lines.
The offices of the Submarine Company in London, Dover, Ramsgate, East Dean and Jersey were purchased by the Post Office, as well as the cable ship; and the staff, 370 in number, was taken over by the government.
In 1868 the International Bureau of Telegraphic Administrations was constituted at Berne, and a convention was formulated by which a central office was appointed to collect and publish information and generally to promote the interests of international telegraphy.
In these circumstances, when, as frequently will be the case, the person calling desires to be put in communication with a subscriber who belongs to another section, connexions must be established in the office between the two sections; this necessitates additional switchboard arrangements, and also increases the time required to put subscribers in communication with one another.
When one of two subscribers connected together by this arrangement talks, the Exchange From the Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal.
At the Post Office a record operator replies and takes particulars of the connexion, and these are entered upon a ticket.
Both the Bell and the Edison Companies opened negotiations with the Post Office for the sale of their patents to the government, but without success.
The licences were for 31 years, expiring in 1922, without any provision for purchase or compensation, and were subject to the payment of a minimum royalty to the Post Office of 10 per cent.
The Post Office at the same time established several telephone exchanges in provincial towns so as to enable the PostmasterGeneral " to negotiate with the telephone companies in a satisfactory manner for licences."
The Postmaster-General (Mr Fawcett) declared that he would issue no more licences unless the licensees agreed to sell telephones to the Post Office.
The Post Office proposed to engage in active competition with the telephone companies, but the Treasury at that time opposed this policy on the ground that the state should at most be ready to supplement and not to supersede private enterprise.
The licences within restricted areas having proved unsuitable for the growing business, public opinion appealed to the Post Office to issue new licences applicable to the whole country.
The Post Office reserved the right to compete either directly or by granting other licences, and it was under no obligation to grant wayleaves.
The National Telephone Company again applied to parliament for powers to lay wires underground; public discontent with inadequate telephone services was expressed, and at the same time the competition of the telephone with the Post Office telegraph became more manifest.
It compelled the companies to sell their trunk wires to the Post Office, leaving the local exchanges in the hands of the companies.
The trunk wires were transferred to the Post Office in pursuance of the policy of 1892, but for all practical purposes the local authorities had vetoed the permission of the government to the company to lay wires underground.
While considering that a really efficient Post Office service would afford the best means for securing such competition, it recommended that general, immediate and effective competition should at once be undertaken either by the Post Office or by local authorities.
In short, all-round competition was authorized, and the Post Office decided to establish a telephone system in London in competition with the company.
The Telegraph Act 1899, while providing for intercommunication between the telephone systems of the local authorities and the company, did not give the Post Office the right to demand intercommunication between its exchanges and those of the company.