Sentence examples for attempt to appoint from inspiring English sources
His attempt to appoint four businessmen to the board of directors was overturned in Congress.
Other examples include his failed attempt to appoint his own lawyer, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court.
He returned to private practice after Johnson's attempt to appoint him to the Washington appeals court failed.
The first was over his planned bombing of Syria; the second was over his attempt to appoint Larry Summers as chair of the Federal Reserve.
The day before, its political editor, James Chapman, reported: "Vince Cable's attempt to appoint a former Labour adviser as the new university access tsar could be blocked.
When Van Vechten first arrived in New York, in 1906, there were few signs that he would ever attempt to appoint himself bard of Harlem.
Birmingham are stepping up their attempts to appoint a quickfire replacement for Alex McLeish, who will be unveiled as Aston Villa's new manager today.
It followed two failed attempts to appoint a chair with the second choice, Fiona Woolf, a City lawyer, forced to quit after it emerged that she had hosted dinner parties for Lord Brittan.
While it would be good if a single chief social worker could do this, I think the experience of attempting to appoint to the post has shown that the job is too demanding to be done well by one person.
Conservatives in Congress have wreaked havoc for years with President Clinton's attempts to appoint federal judges, blocking some and imposing unconscionable delays on others because of the fear that some might behave a bit too independently.
News sites whipped it out again this week like Farage's personal Ultra Gold American Express Card (bonuses include lording it over HM government) after the president-elect attempted to appoint him by tweet as our man in Washington.
