Sentence examples for appoint a place from inspiring English sources

In his farewell sermon to the colonists leaving England to settle Massachusetts Bay in 1630, "God's Promise to His Plantation," the Rev. John Cotton evoked the word's biblical roots, quoting the second Book of Samuel: "I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them".

And in Trenton, the city's residents voted to appoint a police director in place of a chief in 2003, although the tenure of the director, Joseph Santiago, has also been rocky, particularly after the city experienced a record 31 homicides last year.

They will talk diversity, put initiatives in place, appoint a head of diversity.

Rules state the election to appoint a mayor should take place in October, but there are concerns about how much this would cost the council.

House Republicans introduced legislation -- initially with broad support -- that might have allowed Harrell and his state Senate counterpart to appoint a special prosecutor, in place of the attorney general, to investigate legislators.

The law, passed last year, allowed the state to appoint a receiver to act in place of local officials in Central Falls, which declared fiscal insolvency in May.

"If the assistant referee is incompetent, then they should appoint a competent one in his place," said furious president Alain Cayzac after storming into referee Tony Chapron's changing-room.

Mr Morsi would—it is still assumed be empowered to appoint a government and take his place as Egypt's democratically chosen leader on the global stage.But too little of this is certain.

Hamas insists that it will no longer recognize the legitimacy of Mr. Abbas, left, once his term is up on Jan . 9 and has threatened to appoint a Hamas member in his place.

The Met said a plan is in place to appoint a new music director who will be announced in the "coming months".

During his tenure with the lord keeper, Donne lived, according to Walton, more as a friend than as a servant in the Egerton household, where Sir Thomas appointed him "a place at his own table, to which he esteemed [Donne's] company and discourse to be a great ornament".