Bush appointed Sen. Spencer Abraham, lately kicked out of office in Michigan by current senator Debbie Stabenow, to run his Department of Energy in 2004.
Marin Alsop has gotten attention lately for becoming the first woman appointed music director of a major American orchestra, receiving a MacArthur Foundation grant and working on a recorded Brahms symphony cycle.
American-born Nicholas Cullinan, lately of the Metropolitan Museum New York, has this week been appointed director of London's National Portrait Gallery.
While EMBO first developed courses for scientists who had already been appointed as research group leaders, lately more postdocs—and even doctoral students—have been signing on, Glynn says.
He lately gave a reception for Ireland's newly appointed cardinal, a ticklish occasion for the adulterous prime minister.
In common law countries, judges are generally appointed by executive branch officials, though lately judicial commissions made up of lawyers and lay people are taking a larger role in the initial selection of candidates.
In November 1694, a committee was appointed by the Commons to see what laws were "lately expired and expiring [and] fit to be revived and continued".
You must know that the 'Eagle Trade Dollar' that has lately come to Hong Kong has been jointly assayed by officers specially appointed for the purpose, and it can be taken in payment of duties, and come into general circulation.
Long considered an influential ally of the powerful president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, who appointed him to the post in 2003, Mr. Akhmetov has lately come under public criticism from Mr. Nazarbayev for poor oversight of the economy.
For all our sensitivity to religion, we appointed a (corrupt) Sunni as mayor of Najaf, the Shiite center lately occupied by Mr. al-Sadr, and promoted photos of the corpses of Uday and Qusay in defiance of Islamic dictates.
