In the Netherlands, standard follow-up of breast cancer involves appointments every three months with a medical professional.
That's not quite in line with how older generations watched their daily news — that was something of a nightly ritual involving "appointment television" and information delivered by trusted anchors.
In reality, King Louis XVIII had no say in the captain's appointment, since monarchs were not directly involved in appointments made to vessels like a naval frigate.
Joseph Bristow, whose duties as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General under McKinley involved patronage appointments, later wrote that the President "gave Hanna's requests great consideration and had confidence in the clearness of his opinion, but in the end he always followed his own judgment".
The Marbury decision involved the appointment of a minor officeholder: Today's case involves the election of a major one.
But politicians routinely receive political contributions in return for their decisions, whether they involve making appointments or taking a stand on legislation.
In a paper for Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington, DC, George Gray Molina, a Bolivian political scientist, argues that the first step should be "a return to legality", involving consensus appointments to vacancies in the top courts and changes to the new constitution to allow more regional autonomy.
'Care as usual' involves regular appointments with midwives in the antenatal clinic.
Clearly, the detection of cancer in primary care is complex, and it can involve several appointments and investigations (Walter et al, 2012).
They describe the community fund experiment as "an imaginative and innovative approach to extending the range of people involved in public appointments, which we would like to see taken up more widely".
