"failure to appoint" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation where someone did not appoint someone or something as expected or required. This phrase is often used in legal or formal contexts. Example: The executive's failure to appoint a suitable candidate for the vacant position resulted in a significant setback for the company.
Takahashi frequently criticized the Japanese judiciary system for its failure to appoint women.
At one point, Hollings did criticize Ashcroft for the Administration's failure to appoint a special prosecutor in the Enron case.
The Supreme Council's refusal to lift emergency rule and failure to appoint ministers to replace those who resigned or were forced out of office is a worrisome trend.
The failure to appoint a new technical director after the resignation of Michael Emenalo in November 2017 speaks volumes about the lack of long-term planning.
Photograph: Richard Gardner/REX Business Secretary Vince Cable has laid into Glencore Xstrata for its failure to appoint a single woman to its board.
He described the conditions set by Mr. Brown for the inquiry, including his failure to appoint any major public figures to the panel, as "an establishment stitch-up".
Across clinical settings, administrative and communicative breakdowns have been implicated in services' failures to appoint or make care coordinators accessible to service users.
She ruled Butler's relationship with Sutton council was "doomed to failure" and agreed to appoint a private firm, Services for Children, to assess him and Gray.
Sam Allardyce has put his failure to be appointed England manager in 2006 partially down to a lack of PowerPoint facilities.
Palestinian reformers, fed up with Mr. Arafat's duplicity and repeated failures, forced him to appoint a prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, who had repeatedly denounced terror and violence.
Since January, the agency, which enforces consumer product laws and is responsible for making sure that companies recall or fix products that have safety problems, has been paralyzed because of the failure of the White House to appoint a chairman.
