Sentence examples for appointed speaker from inspiring English sources

* When former tennis prodigy John Bercow was appointed Speaker, Nadine Dorries, honourable-ish member for Mid-Beds, was one of his staunchest opponents.

Also on Sunday, parliament turned over presidential powers to its recently appointed speaker, opposition party leader Oleksander Turchinov.

Indeed, Karen Bass, the newly appointed speaker of the State Assembly, said, "The idea of increasing offshore drilling off the coast of California I think is absurd, and I can't even imagine we would entertain that".

Labor needed the support of only one of the independents to make its leader, Frank Walsh, premier, while the LCL needed them both for a 10th term in government They swung their support behind Playford and allowed his government to continue for another term; in return Quirke joined the LCL and was appointed to cabinet, while Stott was appointed speaker.

A17 House Chaplain Appointed Speaker J. Dennis Hastert appointed, the House's first Roman Catholic chaplain.

Ukrainian MPs have voted to appoint speaker Oleksander Turchynov as interim president, following the disappearance on Saturday of Viktor Yanukovych.

The assembly will also appoint speakers for both the parliament and the MPR, at last providing office-holders around which coalitions might form.

Why has the assembly not appointed a speaker and two vice-speakers yet?

Yesterday the country's parliament voted to remove Mr Yanukovych from power by a legally-binding constitutional majority, and today they appointed the speaker, Oleksander Turchinov, interim president.

The debate is being closely watched by ITV's Charles Allen, who has just appointed Welsh speaker and former Classic FM boss Roger Lewis to run a newly created ITV Wales.

The other panel members will be appointed by Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio; the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; and the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California.