Sentence examples for had been appointed to replace from inspiring English sources

On June 16, 2011, al-Qaeda released a statement announcing that Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's long-serving deputy, had been appointed to replace bin Laden as the organization's leader.

When he returned from a leave of absence, he discovered someone else had been appointed to replace him, and so his service in this role ended on November 16, 1813.

Executions are so rare that no one has been appointed to replace him.

Nick Hurd has been appointed to replace Shapps as minister at the Department for International Development.

The opposition is unable to seek a supreme court ruling because no chief justice has been appointed to replace Eames.

Sir Robert Kerslake has been appointed to replace Sir Gus O'Donnell as the new head of the civil service, Downing Street has announced.

No permanent president has been appointed to replace him, an election last December producing a 38-38 tie despite there being only 75 delegates.

Kevin Darley, the champion Flat jockey in 2000 and a senior member of the association for many years, has been appointed to replace him.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is especially interested in trying to broker a deal on the long-stalled patients' bill of rights, and a one-vote shift in the Senate -- Senator Zell Miller, Democrat of Georgia, has been appointed to replace the late Senator Paul Coverdell, a Republican -- could make the difference.

"Porterfield played well and obviously Belly played very well," said the Notts director of cricket, Mick Newell, who has been appointed to replace Ashley Giles on the England selection panel, and was joined in the pavilion by the national selector James Whitaker and the reappointed coach Peter Moores.

For that to happen, another case would have to work its way up to the Supreme Court after a new justice has been appointed to replace Scalia.