Currently their role as head of a parish automatically sees them given a seat in the assembly, a position they have held since the earliest records of States meetings.

BBC: Jersey Electoral Commission recommends smaller States

Blago also apparently cooked up a plan in which a labor organization would create a highly paid position for him in exchange for the seat.

WSJ: Welcome to the Blagosphere

Mr. Obama gets to put her in a subordinate position while appearing to be magnanimous, and her seat in the U.S. Senate will likely be filled by a more malleable Democrat who won't be plotting from day one to get to the White House.

WSJ: Keep Gates

In 1965, she became an assistant state attorney general in Arizona and left that position in 1969 when she was appointed to a state Senate seat.

CNN: Sandra Day O'Connor: Self-reliant and ambitious

In the future, personal information like seat position, music settings and temperature preferences will be stored in a renter's profile and uploaded to any car the customer rents, '' Mr. Schneider said.

WSJ: The Rise of the Rent-a-Porsche

Suddenly we were confronted with seats where one's nose was almost touching the back of the seat in front, and where the ability to stretch out in a reclining position was non-existent.

BBC: News Online

Its seat and back, connected via a cantilever system, allowed the customer to get comfortable in any position without having to fiddle with any knobs or controls.

FORBES: The Chair Men

And, as a final straw, your golden-boy position has been usurped by an even more glamorous and meaningless seat at the board table: the chief technology officer.

FORBES: Reprieve For A Dying Species

Maynard said he has a position on the war, but when it comes to voting, that issue will still take a back seat to the local issues.

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