Sentence examples for Preceding this appointment from inspiring English sources

Preceding this appointment, de Cotte had designed or decorated several city and country mansions, including the Hôtel des Mousquetaires Noirs (1699), and had worked closely with Mansart on additions to the Hôtel des Invalides.

The years immediately preceding this appointment were marred by disagreements between Admirals Sir John Fisher and Lord Charles Beresford over the direction of the navy and the imposition of reforms.

The weeks preceding the appointment her condition had worsened.

They found that those companies had experienced, on average, a twenty-per-cent decline in performance in the six months preceding the appointments.

It's little surprise, considering the political storm that preceded the appointment, that there has been much talk and debate over Les Ebdon's new job as director of fair access.

– (FR) Mr President, we have come to the end of the procedure that precedes the appointment of the commissioners, with hearings that are completely run-of-the-mill.

Gates reflexively defended the force whenever controversy arose, and an important lesson Parks took from the decade preceding his appointment was that Gates had done the department a disservice by failing unequivocally to condemn the Rodney King cops.

This appointment should suit her better".

"Let this appointment be made at once".

Predictably the Supreme Soviet rejected this appointment.

Even so, this appointment looks odd.