In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.

He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.

Navin Ramgoolam led a MLP-MMM coalition to victory at the 1995 general elections, replacing Sir Aneerood Jugnauth as Prime Minister, a post the latter had occupied for 13 years.

From 1524 until his death he lived at Magdeburg, where he occupied the post of teacher or cantor in the Protestant school.

Peter's Corollary states that " n time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties " and adds that " work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

In early 1903 Harding announced his campaign for Governor of Ohio, which was soon thwarted by an intra-party alliance that assured the election of fellow Republican Myron T. Herrick ; Harding was awarded the position of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, a post he occupied from 1904 to 1906.

Although it has been argued that the Abbey was being used as a refuge from the battle by the women and children and was occupied by German troops only after the bombing, many reports from troops on the ground suggest that in fact Germans were occupying the monastery, and it was considered a key observational post by all those who were fighting in the field.

The commonly invoked Roman law of Angaria allowed the Roman authorities to demand that inhabitants of occupied territories carry messages and equipment the distance of one mile post, but prohibited forcing an individual to go further than a single mile, at the risk of suffering disciplinary actions.

He occupied the post of professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1828 to 1841 and again from 1842 to 1843.

In August 1812, the Russian-American Company set up a fortified trading post at Fort Ross, near present day Bodega Bay on the Sonoma Coast of Northern California, sixty miles north of San Francisco on land claimed, but not occupied by, the British Empire.

As a Roman colony Beneventum seems to have quickly become a flourishing place ; and in the Second Punic War was repeatedly occupied by Roman generals as a post of importance, on account of its proximity to Campania, and its strength as a fortress.

She was in 1984 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, to replace Edward Richard Schreyer as vicereine, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Ray Hnatyshyn in 1990.

Ironically, as with the speculations about Sauvé's standing in protocol vis-a-vis Mulroney, the Governor General herself was accused of elevating her position above its traditional place ; she was criticised for her own presidentialisation of the viceregal post, with pundits at the time saying she occupied " Republican Hall ".

This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post.

He was in 1935 appointed as governor general by George V, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bennett, to replace the Earl of Bessborough as viceroy, and occupied that post until his death in 1940.

Apart from convenience stores, post offices, etc., Plaistow is mainly occupied by houses and apartments blocks.

Spanish Fort was originally the site of a trading post established by French occupied Mobile.

On the first floor a kitchen and mess hall occupied one end with the office, store and later the post office on the other side.

In 1936, the post office relocated to the building now occupied by the Eagle Eye Thrift Shop at 65 Main Street.

The post was later occupied by both Southern and Northern forces during the Civil War.

He was in 1989 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney, to replace Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Roméo LeBlanc in 1995.

She was in 1999 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien, to replace Roméo LeBlanc as viceroy, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Michaëlle Jean in 2005.

From 1864 onwards, he worked as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( effectively, he was the Secretary, since the senior post was occupied by a noble figurehead ).

However, he chose to resign his post after the outbreak of the Cleveland child abuse scandal which occupied two years of his life, fighting Social Services in the battle for Cleveland's children.

He was in 1904 appointed as governor general by King Edward VII, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Arthur Balfour, to replace the Earl of Minto as viceroy and occupied that post until succeeded by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, in 1911.

It's one thing to go without food when you're occupied with some work or when you're simply postponing a meal, but when you're dependent on someone else and know that you can't eat until he's bedded down for the night, hunger can be a gnawing torture.

The house was opened to the public in 1833, but continued to be occupied by Scott's descendants until 2004.

The city of Assur was still occupied by Assyrians during the Islamic period until the 14th century when Tamurlane conducted a massacre of indigenous Assyrian Christians.

It was known to the Hittites as Hapanuwa, and was later occupied by Phrygians, Lydians and Achaemenid Persians until it was conquered by Alexander the Great.

Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war ; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I.

Jordan retained control of the city until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Bethlehem was occupied by Israel, along with the rest of the West Bank.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

The French succeeded in helping it to quell the disturbances, and an African peacekeeping force ( MISAB ) occupied Bangui until 1998 when they were relieved by a United Nations peacekeeping mission ( MINURCA ).

The atoll has been occupied at various times by guano miners, would-be settlers or military personnel, mostly from Mexico, which formerly claimed it until international arbitration awarded it to France in 1931.

Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.

The Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair until it was occupied from January to March, 2002, by a group proclaiming themselves Neo-Dadaists, led by Mark Divo.

In his own lifetime, Sukō and those around him believed that he occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne from November 18, 1348 until November 26, 1351.

Sforza occupied Genoa and Savona until 1464.

France occupied Gabon in 1885, but did not administer it until 1903.

Müller remained the Gestapo Chief, a position he occupied until the end of the war.

Howland was occupied by a battalion of the United States Marine Corps in September 1943 and known as Howland Naval Air Station until May 1944.

Some villas such as Great Casterton in Rutland and Hucclecote in Gloucestershire had new mosaic floors laid around this time, suggesting that economic problems may have been limited and patchy, although many suffered some decay before being abandoned in the 5th century ; the story of Saint Patrick indicates that villas were still occupied until at least 430.

Italy occupied Vlorë, and Serbia and Montenegro occupied parts of northern Albania until a Central Powers offensive scattered the Serbian army, which was evacuated by the French to Thessaloniki.

The entire area of the West Bank and Gaza, previously annexed by Jordan and occupied by Egypt respectively, was controlled by Israel from the 1967 war until August 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza.

From this time he was occupied with his chief work, L ' Histoire romaine à Rome ( 4 vols., 1861-1864 ), until his death at Pau.

After declaring independence from the Soviet political structure completely dominated by Moscow and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) until 1991, Kazakhstan retained the basic governmental structure and, in fact, most of the same leadership that had occupied the top levels of power in 1990.

When Hariri's sister took a pro-Syrian line saying that Lebanon should " stand by Syria until its land is liberated and it regains its sovereignty on the occupied Golan Heights " the crowd jeered her.

It remained independent until the outset of World War II, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union under the terms of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.