In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

The Command post was underground, and well camouflaged.

Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

It was a post of honor, held inviolate for him ; ;

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.

In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.

It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.

On the Ohio or Wabash was to be built another post `` at the fork of two great rivers ''.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

A post of Minister of Welsh Affairs was created in 1951 under the Home Secretary and was upgraded to Minister of State level in 1954.

In 1926 this post was upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment.

With the retirement of the USAF EC-135 Looking Glass airframe, E-6 Mercury upgraded with the Airborne Launch Control System ( ALCS ) have also assumed the airborne command post mission for the United States Strategic Command ( USSTRATCOM ).

* July 1926 – The post of Secretary of Scotland was upgraded to Secretary of State for Scotland.

The post box is situated at the top of a renowned car parking facility which was recently upgraded with a valet parking service, manned primarily by Marsden High School learn to drive students and their parents.

Sir John Kerr resigned in 1977 after accepting the position of Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, a post which ultimately he did not take up.

President Cleveland grew to like Landis, and when Gresham died in 1895, offered Landis the post of United States Ambassador to Venezuela.

Nonetheless after the 1979 general election he was offered, and declined, the post of British Ambassador to the United States.

The prestigious post went to the ( then ) little-known Dean Rusk and Stevenson was appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Albright was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her credentials on February 9, 1993.

In fact in his period in office he performed only one public function: the receipt of the credentials of the French Ambassador in the Council Chamber, Government Buildings, 1933, on behalf of the King, George V. However, de Valera subsequently had that duty moved from the Governor-General to his own post of President of the Executive Council.

Franz Josef Strauss, a major politician in post WWII Germany, became the target of the broadcasting and publishing media blitz that Armstrong unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong, The Plain Truth and the Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England.

After the hearings were over, but before the scheduled vote on whether to report the articles to the full House, Mellon accepted an appointment to the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James and resigned in February.

He was recommended for the post of Ambassador to Holland in 1839, but politics prevented him from securing the post.

In 1895 the federal government appointed him to inspect US consular offices throughout Europe and in 1896 he was appointed Ambassador to Germany, a post he held until 1897, when the Cleveland administration and its appointees were replaced.

However, even this time Bryce's cabinet post was held only for a brief period, because as soon as February 1907 he was appointed British Ambassador to the United States of America.

In 1771 he was sent as British Ambassador to Spain and retained this post until war broke out between Great Britain and Spain in 1779.

He resigned his post in October 1945, citing personal reasons, and was succeeded by Wellington Koo, then Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

From the dual posting he moved to post of Canadian Ambassador to the North Atlantic Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) in Brussels, Belgium from 1990 to 1994.

In 1887 he was appointed Ambassador to Paris, after the post was made vacant by the resignation of Lord Lyon.

In 1993, he was named Ambassador to Morocco by President Alpha Oumar Konaré ; after six years in that post, he became Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, and the European Union.

In 2010 Haden was given the honorary position of Rugby World Cup Ambassador, but resigned this post after making controversial statements about a racial quota he alleged the Canterbury Crusaders to be operating, calling Polynesians " darkies ", and then suggesting women raped by sports stars may be partly to blame.

On February 17, 2005, President George W. Bush named U. S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte to the post, pending confirmation by the Senate.

He was later appointed as Fiji's Roving Ambassador and High Commissioner to the member states of the South Pacific Forum, before taking up a post as Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Trade in 1999.

In 2005 President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who had been a critic of Pastrana's peace process with the FARC and had received criticisms from Pastrana regarding his negotiations with Colombian paramilitary groups, surprisingly offered the former president the post of Ambassador to the United States in Washington DC.

He then became Ambassador to Canada on 23 October 1984, remaining in that post for 20 years ; his title changed to High Commissioner when Cameroon joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1995.

Patrick George Binns ( born October 8, 1948 ), is a Canadian diplomat who was named Ambassador to Ireland on August 30, 2007 ; serving in that post until November 19, 2010.