Sentence examples for attempting to appoint from inspiring English sources

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.

Officials here in the Nigerian capital suggested that General Abubakar might try to assuage the anger of opposition politicians by attempting to appoint some of them to a Cabinet.

"It is lunacy that the Abe administration is attempting to appoint Tanaka, an obviously ineligible figure, as commissioner," said Ruiko Muto, a 60-year-old former teacher who is seeking to hold senior officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the Fukushima No. 1 plant, criminally responsible for the disaster.

In February 2010, Zardari sparked a standoff by attempting to appoint a Supreme Court candidate without the court's approval, but the confrontation ended after he backed down and nominated a candidate acceptable by the court.

While Charles Koch certainly funds social libertarian causes like the Cato Institute a think tank he tried to seize control of by attempting to appoint avowed neoconservatives to the board in the summer of 2012 the amount now wanes in comparison to the many millions he donates annually to social conservative and interventionist advocacy groups.

While Charles Koch certainly funds social libertarian causes like the Cato Institute a think tank he tried to seize control of by attempting to appoint avowed neoconservatives to the board in the summer of 2012 the amount now wanes in comparison with the many millions he donates annually to socially conservative and interventionist-advocacy groups.

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.

They felt betrayed in 2005 when he attempted to appoint to the Supreme Court his White House counsel, whom they considered insufficiently credentialed and unacceptably moderate.

In a dispute with the Court of High Commission later that year, he argued that the court did not have the power to imprison for adultery, and when James attempted to appoint Coke to the court in 1611, he refused.

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.

Interestingly, molecular taxonomists attempt to appoint their taxa using morphological characteristics.