Sentence examples for important appointees from inspiring English sources

I ask you to vote up or down on judicial nominations and other important appointees.

Fittingly, his third term became a public relations nightmare when some of his important appointees and elected Democrats were involved in municipal scandals.

So you're going to let one of your most important appointees give credibility to your biggest opponent and the BP spill victims' greatest enemy, the Chamber of Commerce?

Earlier this month, the Senator from Alabama held up 70 Obama nominations including important appointees to the Pentagon and the State Department to ensure that he get a tanker contract.

And the voice of Robert E. Boyle, the current executive director and an appointee of Governor Pataki, is often not as loud and authoritative as those of other important New York appointees, like Mr. Gargano, head of the Empire State Development Corporation, and Brad Race, Mr. Pataki's chief of staff.

And anyone who's seen that video of Elizabeth Warren tearing apart Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has probably wondered: "Aren't these two both important Obama appointees?

For all that the Solicitor General serves as the public face of the office, and as an important senior political appointee, the career employees act as its principal representatives to the Court.

Elected trustees, he said, are "an important counterbalance to U.N. appointees".

Appointees to important state boards, like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are also large donors.

Both the administration and its appointees in important regulatory positions have maintained for months that they intend to relax regulations to encourage investment in new technologies and to provide incentives for companies to expand high-speed Internet services.

In the context of a statute that plainly excludes most important state public officials, "appointee on the policymaking level" is sufficiently broad that we cannot conclude that the statute plainly covers appointed state judges.