Sentence examples for appointee it from inspiring English sources

While more conservative judges have been added to the circuit's mix over time, the balance that has resulted is not a meeting at the center, said Judge William Fletcher, a Clinton appointee; "it's more of a teeter-totter balance" with extremes taking up the positions at either end of the spectrum.

As head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, the Karmapa ranks third in the list of eminent Tibetan Buddhists, but with number two – the Panchen Lama – having disappeared (presumed captured by the Chinese) and replaced by a Beijing-sponsored appointee, it is the Karmapa who carries the hopes of many Tibetans for a future figurehead.

I had one tool to block a bad appointee; it wasn't a filibuster, but it was the conceptually similar requirement that his nominee required two thirds of the Senate to be confirmed.

In America, with its traditions of entrepreneurial policy advocacy and political appointees, it is not so odd.What is unusual is that the neo-cons are so different from the Texan business establishment gathered around George Bush.

Before it faded away, the Liberal Party, now moribund, was notorious for the inept political appointees it foisted on the public.

Republicans were very critical of the Florida Supreme Court even before it acted, saying it's seven Democratic appointees, it's partisan, nobody can trust it.

"Rather than going after the specific problems of Governor Rowland and his appointees, it was opening up this widespread remedy," he said.

While this olive branch may be welcomed in City Hall, where the prospect of a Booker mayoralty haunts many longtime political appointees, it is not necessarily what some of Mr. Booker's supporters want to hear.

Since our top regulators are political appointees, it should be no surprise that, in the face of heavy lobbying by the financial sector, they often turn out to be regulatory doves.

Overseen by five mayoral appointees, it typically handles questions about whether city workers can moonlight or accept a free dinner, not those presented by a billionaire mayor's holdings and a global company.

Meeting Klíma in Prague in 1990, he says "as the week passed and I either met or heard about Václav Havel's appointees, it began to seem to me as though a primary qualification for joining the new administration was having translated into Czech the poems of John Berryman".