Sentence examples for long-standing appointment from inspiring English sources

He was headed east instead, toward a long-standing appointment at the federal courthouse.

I had a long-standing appointment with President Bush's senior counsellor, Karl Rove, to talk about politics.

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He returned in September, and almost immediately achieved a long-standing ambition – appointment as principal conductor of the Provisional Theatre, at an annual salary of 1,200 gulden.

In this respect, two long-standing hypotheses stand out.

The recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the president to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer.

"This recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the president to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer," he said.

"This recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer," said McConnell.

Mr. Bush decided to quit the long-standing practice of rewarding supporters with high-paying appointments to the companies' boards — "political plums," in Mr. Rove's words.

But Platform, a research group specialising in the environmental and social impacts of the oil industry and a long-standing critic of Shell, said this was disingenuous, given its appointment of Mr Stroebl.

I'm grateful that the chancellor has offered his support for the Treasury committee's long-standing view that we should hold what amounts to a pre-appointment hearing and should report our conclusions to the whole House.