Sentence examples for appointed ahead from inspiring English sources

They are expected to be appointed ahead of the group's annual meeting in May, with further elected directors set to join the board following the meeting.

Opponents have objected to the £60m of public funding and the £3.5m annual maintenance costs, to the restricted access for bikes and to the murky procurement process, which saw Thomas Heatherwick appointed ahead of other experienced bridge designers.

In the shake-up after the 2011 World Cup, Mallinder was a rarity in declaring he wanted the job, only for Lancaster (the in-house RFU man) to be appointed ahead of the much more experienced Nick Mallett, with an all-English coaching ticket of Andy Farrell, Graham Rowntree and Mike Catt eventually joining him.

The last time there was a similar issue, for the final of the last Four Nations series in 2011 at Elland Road, Australia's Matt Cecchin was appointed ahead of Perenara and Bentham, who had upset the Kangaroos coach, Tim Sheens, with his performance in their bruising opening game against New Zealand.

Gildersleeve was appointed ahead of a planned flotation of New Look which was pulled at the last minute in February last year, and it is understood that his departure is in part because he is not therefore doing the job he was hired to do – chair a public company.

When McGuinness took the Old Trafford job in the summer of 1969, appointed ahead of Don Revie, the bookmakers' favourite, he was told that his salary would be £80 a week – more than doubling his pay for running the youth team – and he would be called United's chief coach.

He added her services would be recognised and a temporary replacement would be appointed next week ahead of the search for a permanent replacement.

Appointing Entwistle ahead of weightier candidates appeared to reinforce the sense that Patten was really the man in charge.

"The secretary for industry will be appointing engineers ahead of a decision to be made next year on the first 'carbon-capture' demonstration plant in the UK," said Gordon Brown, the chancellor.

This day of joy, he decided, was the perfect time to deliver another thrust in his ongoing feud with Pep Guardiola, the intense 44-year-old who was appointed Barcelona manager ahead of Mourinho in 2008.

Elliott is starting her second season at Holcombe and was appointed vice-captain ahead of the new campaign.