past president

collocation in English

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past
adjective
uk
/pɑːst/us
/pæst/
used to refer to a period of time before and until ...
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president
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/us
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/
(the title given to) the person who has the highest political position in a country that is a republic and who, in some of these countries, is the leader of ...
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(Definition ofpastandpresidentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The buildings have gradually been added to with paintings and statues of past presidents and prominent members.
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The forums focused on how past presidents and administrations implemented their policy agendas from their first day in office.
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Indeed, the listed names of past presidents reflect how power has remained the purview of a small number of elite families instead of a meritocracy.
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In addition, the two most recent past presidents are members of the board.
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I am also aware that nothing is past like apastpresident.
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I believe that one of them was apastpresidentof the architects' institute.
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I declare an interest as a loyal, but critical, member and as apastpresidentof that organisation.
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I am now of course apastpresident—and nothing is so past as that.
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Thepastpresidentis the only officer who is not elected as they were elected to a two-year term when elected president.
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The immediatepastpresidentis also a member of this body.
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Capra has served several positions with the organization including serving as vice president, president andpastpresident.
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She is thepastpresidentof, an international organization for multi-published popular fiction authors.
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Ordinarily, the vice-president succeeds the president, who then stays on the executive committee as immediatepastpresident.
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The organization is led by a board of governors, which includes the president,pastpresident, president-elect, vice president, secretary, treasurer, members-at-large, and strategic coordinating committee chairs.
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Each year a new vice president is elected, who then advances automatically in the following years to the position of president-elect, then president, and thenpastpresident.
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I was able to get the figures because they are kind to past presidents.
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