Sentence examples for controlled the appointment from inspiring English sources

He controlled the appointment of mayors, village headmen, and chiefs of police.

It charges that the mob figures and their associates controlled the appointment of officials to the International Longshoremen's Association and forced dockworkers to pay for their own jobs -- even extorting thousands of dollars from an injured longshoreman's disability settlement.

Kirk Sowell, the editor of the newsletter Inside Iraqi Politics, said the episode had also further damaged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's carefully devised image as the man who brought order to Iraq — all the more so since Mr. Maliki has controlled the appointment of senior military officials and maintained a tight hold on the Defense and Interior Ministries.

The governor controlled the appointment of the legislators and the agenda of the legislature.

In Facebook posts before his atrocity photo was posted, Muhaxheri claimed he controlled the appointment of the imam at the Central Mosque in Kacanik, which has become a center of conflict between Islamist radicals and local traditional Muslims.

Gifts of royal demesne to found or to enrich bishoprics and convents were not really losses of land but pious reinvestments, as long as the crown controlled the appointments of bishops and abbots.

Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe controls the appointment of 30 members of Parliament.

It controls the appointment of captains of industry and, in the SOEs, even corporate dogsbodies.

In the peer-review process, there is only the illusion of independence, for the simple reason that the Fish and Wildlife Service controls the appointment of panelists.

True, the party today still controls the appointment of chief executives of large state enterprises as well as top officials at every level.

The state created an independent finance commission to oversee the city's management and budget as well as to control the appointment of the city's police commissioner and members of the licensing board.