Sentence examples for appoint themselves from inspiring English sources

Now three sitting borough presidents are threatening to appoint themselves to the board.

Conservatives appoint themselves to the easy job of tearing these efforts down.

"It disenfranchises members because it is the leaders who appoint themselves," he said.

Likewise, the most fervent of royalists tend to be the people who appoint themselves as warders of the prison.

Mr Justice Coulson said: "Convicted murderers cannot appoint themselves as unpaid investigators of another crime, no matter how serious.

This is another example of "misplaced scale": employers do not normally appoint themselves arbiters of appropriate behavior outside the workplace.

The four men appointed themselves directors of the fund.

Unsurprisingly, the general partners have appointed themselves as Lagardère's gérants.

I don't remember who had appointed themselves carrier of the book.

Two veteran stars of financial dramas past — Paul A. Volcker and Richard Ravitch —appointed themselves to head a blue-ribbon commission.

The permanent five members appointed themselves in the aftermath of the second world war from which they emerged the victors.