Sentence examples for attempt to appoint a from inspiring English sources

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.

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to appoint a fellow Republican as lieutenant governor, a post left vacant when the Democratic incumbent was elected to Congress, has sent Sacramento into political meltdown.

The "Thurmond rule," which emerged when Senator Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina, blocked Lyndon Johnson's attempt to appoint a new Chief Justice near the end of his Presidency, holds that the Senate stops acting on lifetime judicial nominations roughly six months before a Presidential election.

We suspect, in fact, that Pope and his fellow immortal Walt Whitman have been snickering into the sleeves of their heavenly raiment at a pair of mock epics that have unfolded in Nassau and Suffolk over each county's attempt to appoint a poet laureate.

The attempt to appoint a chief football operations officer has stalled, after talks with the former Rangers and Bayern Munich midfielder Christian Nerlinger failed to deliver an agreement.

However, it was the fourth attempt to appoint a new prime minister since the general election of Friday 26 February returned a hung Dáil, in which no party won enough seats to govern independently.

The telecommunications provider Colt Telecom Group, which supplies services to businesses in 13 European countries, said it would fight a bondholder's attempt to appoint an administrator to run the company.

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.

The RFU's Disciplinary Officer, Judge Jeff Blackett, had been asked to investigate the chaotic events of the preceding months: the recruitment - and sacking - of John Steele as chief executive, and the flawed attempts to appoint a performance director.

Blackett, the RFU's disciplinary officer, had been asked to investigate the events of the preceding months, including the recruitment - and sacking - of Steele as chief executive and the attempts to appoint a performance director.