Sentence examples for attempts to appoint from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

For example, when the government attempts to appoint new managers at inefficient state companies, such replacements are blocked by local courts.

Other examples include his failed attempt to appoint his own lawyer, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court.

His attempt to appoint four businessmen to the board of directors was overturned in Congress.

He returned to private practice after Johnson's attempt to appoint him to the Washington appeals court failed.

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.