Sentence examples for former appointments from inspiring English sources

That approach is a marked contrast to that of the Pataki administration, many in Albany said, in which a small number of lobbyists and former government officials — like Alfonse M. D'Amato, the Republican former senator; Kieran Mahoney, Mr. Pataki's longtime communications strategist; and Patrick McCarthy, his former appointments director — served almost as gatekeepers to the executive branch.

If patients contacted a specialist without former appointment with the GP and without a referral, the specialists would not inform the GP.

A former public appointments commissioner has said there was a serious breach of procedure in the hiring of the chairman of NI Water.

Berezutski or Igor Denisov were the alternatives and the manager confirmed the former's appointment only 24 hours before their curtain-raiser.

This government has placed supporters in every senior public appointment; and it is now unlikely any government will restore the former non-partisan appointments process.

Three other appointees are former generals; their appointments are an apparent nod to the still powerful Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF.

Speaking half an hour before Di Canio's appointment, former Swindon chairman Jeremy Wray told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think it's a great appointment.

New director Joe Kinnear has certainly had his say over the last couple of weeks, with managing director Derek Llambias having left the club following the former manager's appointment.

At the state department, Obama confirmed that Mitchell, 75, the former senator, whose appointment had been leaked to the press this week, would be his Middle East envoy.

Informed of this, Baehrel wrote in an e-mail, "I have not given you or [the checker] the complete personal or business name of our former reservation & appointment assistance".

Mr Laws, by contrast, is a conspicuously numerate former banker.Thus the appointment exemplifies some familiar syndromes of government: the need, sometimes, to rely on untried youth; the need to barter ministerial posts for the support of rival internal constituencies.