The phrase "appoint to a position" is not correct in standard English; it should be "appoint to a position" or "appoint someone to a position." You can use it when discussing the act of assigning someone to a specific role or job within an organization.
Example: "The board decided to appoint Sarah to the position of Chief Financial Officer."
Alternatives: "assign to a role" or "designate for a position."
After brief stays at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, he was appointed to a position at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
One of the arrest warrants requested, the judge said, was for a man appointed to a position in the Venezuelan government in 2005.
Peach was appointed to a position with customs at Fowey, Cornwall, in 1845, and four years later he went to Scotland.
As the new American and NATO commander in Europe, Admiral Stavridis, 54, becomes the first naval officer appointed to a position previously held by famed ground-warfare generals.
After the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in 1996, Mr. Rabbani was appointed to a position similar to that of prime minister.
The stationmaster was Robert F. Dorgan, affable and jowly, yearning to be appointed to a position of importance and seeing the station as a brief stop not only for freight wagons but for himself.
By that time, however, Grinker had been appointed to a position at George Washington University, in the same department in which Turnbull had ended his gypsy career as an academic anthropologist.
Regardless of gender, most employees want to be appointed to a position because they are the best person for the job, it is often for this reason that women baulk at the idea.
The dominant issue during the Senate hearings was whether Black was eligible to serve on the court, because Congress had passed legislation increasing the benefits for Supreme Court retirees, and federal law prohibited a member of Congress from being appointed to a position affected by such legislation during the term in which the legislation was passed.
