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How to use the word Appointed in a Sentence? Page #3

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I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.

Geoffrey Berman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position, to which I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate Judiciary.

Geoffrey Berman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We look forward to engaging with our oversight bodies and those appointed under the CARES Act to ensure that the American people understand the steps we are taking on their behalf as faithful stewards of the public trust.

Daleep Singh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Congress will exercise its oversight and we will have our panel ... appointed by the House, in real time to make sure we know where those funds are being expended.

Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

However, His Highness has given his assent to appoint Mahathir Mohamad as interim prime minister, while waiting for the appointment of the new prime minister. Hence until then, (Mahathir) will manage the country's affairs until a new prime minister and cabinet are appointed.

Chief Secretary Mohd Zuki Ali

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When God anoints you, surely you will be appointed for massive accomplishments.

Gift Gugu Mona

added by Gift Gugu Mona
4 years ago

The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …

Justice Anthony Kennedy

added by Normando
4 years ago

This structure enabled Invesco to operate inside a board which was evenly held by the Chinese and Invesco, the elevation of the CEO – appointed by Invesco – to the board tipped the scales and with it all but allowed Invesco to run the (joint venture) essentially as a subsidiary.

Peter Alexander

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is obvious that these appointments lack judicial independence or adequate separation from the executive, and the judges are being appointed for tribunals with indications that they should lean in favor of declaring people foreigners.

Sanjay Hegde

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A country that at one time appointed ministers and lawyers in Iran has reached a point where they send a mediator and plead for their ship to be freed.

Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is bigger than just the Hatch Act or any other law, this is about holding our government to the highest standard and not allowing individuals appointed by The President to be given special treatment when they flagrantly violate the law.

Special Counsel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today, Beckie Scott and Edwin Moses expressed their extreme disappointment in the report released today by The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) through their appointed law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, whitewashing complaints of harassment and intimidation, wADA is supposed to be committed to the athletes and fair play.

Ben Chew

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The next thing to keep a sharp eye out for, folks, and that is people fleeing the country. If you see James Comey in Argentina, if you see James Clapper somewhere where they cant be extradited, then you will know that we are getting close, when these people start leaving, Im half joking, it hasnt started yet. But man, are they nervous because the attorney general has appointed a prosecutor to look into the investigation.

Rush Limbaugh

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think that is why he was appointed – to see if there were crimes – and I think that is a major inexplicable failure.

Matthew Jacobs

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators, the use of crony senators to win would also make Prayut's electoral victory illegitimate in the eyes of most Thai people.

Paul Chambers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

added by Normando
5 years ago

Unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a sudden they are trying to take you out with bullshit, okay? now Robert Mueller never received a vote and neither did the person who appointed him.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Robert Mueller never received a vote and neither did the person that appointed Robert Mueller, robert Mueller put 13 of the angriest Democrats in the history of our country on the commission.

Melania Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A special counsel is appointed only in very rare serious circumstances involving grave violations of public trust, the public has a right and need to know the facts of such betrayals of public trust.

Richard Blumenthal

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Foreigners are only appointed as a last resort.

George Olcott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The governor is hopeful that Jon Kyl will continue to serve in the appointed Senate seat through 2020, at this point we would not speculate on a vacancy that does not exist.

Doug Ducey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( Rick Scott has) thrown around words like voter fraud with no proof. Rick Scott's tried to get the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to intimidate local supervisors of election. Both the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which Republican Gov. Rick Scott oversees, and the Gov. Scott-appointed Florida Secretary of State have both said that there is no credible evidence of voter fraud, florida Department of Law Enforcement's become obvious that Republican Gov. Rick Scott can not oversee the process in a fair and impartial way, and Republican Gov. Rick Scott should remove Republican Gov. Rick Scott from the recount process.

Bill Nelson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s one of the reasons that I think a lot of Americans are just fed up with the whole political process. Because, in a democracy you have to have at least enough trust to be able to work with each other and solve difficult problems, when the Republicans refuse to give a distinguished judge appointed by President Obama even the courtesy of meetings, let alone a hearing, that sent such a terrible message. Now, what they’ve done in this case is to hold back information, they have not provided all the information, which was always made available for other nominees, and they’re trying to rush this through to the detriment of the American public, who deserves to have answers to whatever charges might be presented.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Rick Scott caused this green-algae mess by shamelessly gutting environmental regulation in Florida and drastically cutting funds for the water management districts, it didn't help that Rick Scott appointed Rick Scott cronies to various regulatory boards.

Dan McLaughlin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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