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How to use the word Appointed in a Sentence? Page #6

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Opaque state firms spend billions without any system of control with a management appointed on a political basis ... State companies have essentially fallen into the private hands of one political group or another.

– Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A successor will create another centre of power, which is what Mugabe has been fighting by dismantling Mujuru's pillars of support, mugabe may give an impression that those appointed stand a good chance of succeeding him, but he is consolidating and will remain the centre of gravity in the party and state.

– Eldred Masunungure

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9 years ago

Nat Glover (Jacksonville Sheriff 1995-2003). I appointed him patrolman when I was mayor. In 1965, we had a segregated police department. A black officer could not arrest a white person. When the black officers were recruited, they had their own precinct over on the west side of LaVilla and were given passed down uniforms.

– Lou Ritter

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9 years ago

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

– Herodotus

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10 years ago

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

– Herodotus

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10 years ago

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

– Doris Lessing

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10 years ago

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.

– Epictetus

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10 years ago

He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

– Plutarch

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10 years ago

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

– John Selden

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10 years ago

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

– Herodotus

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14 years ago

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

– Herodotus

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14 years ago

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

– Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

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14 years ago

Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

– Bennett Alfred Cerf

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14 years ago

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.

– I Ching

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14 years ago

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

– Claude Pepper

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14 years ago

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