Sentence examples for brilliant appointment from inspiring English sources

"It was a brilliant appointment," Wilson told me.

"I think it's a brilliant appointment," said Louis J. Coletti, president of the Building Trades Employers Associationn.

Nearly everyone agreed that this was a brilliant appointment, but Hess died of a heart attack in less than a year.

Thompson, who announced in March that he would step down after the London Olympics after eight years in charge, said: "I think this is a brilliant appointment.

(Ms. Duke left the board at the end of August; Ms. Raskin is the nominee to become deputy Treasury secretary – a brilliant appointment but one that creates a definite gap in Fed leadership).

Mr Thompson, who was rumoured to have singled out Mr Entwistle as his preferred candidate, said it was a "brilliant appointment".

In the five months since Barack Obama introduced him as the next Treasury secretary, Geithner has already run through what seems to be a career's worth of images: the brilliant technocrat whose appointment caused stocks to soar; the neophyte public figure who flopped in his debut; the regulator who has grown too close to Wall Street; the Obama adviser with the same unflappable nature as his boss.

"They are a brilliant set of appointments," said Heseltine, his voice laced with acid, "because they can come up with the answers that escape me".

The truth is that we should not fear the appointment of brilliant and conscientious lawyers like Goodwin Liu, whether those nominees tare on the ideological left or right.

He said that while he respected and would even like to keep some members of the Giuliani team, "not all of his appointments were brilliant," and he added that he would ultimately sign off on every major appointment.

It was a surprise when Cole won plaudits in the world of television having come from the newspaper industry, Preston said, describing his appointment as a "brilliant decision" by the BBC.