Abbas was elected uncontested as Fatah's head by a show of hands in front of the cameras by the mainly appointed delegates.
Most of its 17,000-odd police forces are subject to some sort of democratic control: city chiefs are mainly appointed by elected mayors, or bodies created by them; rural sheriffs are often directly elected.Yet many American experts, among them William Bratton, who has run the police in New York and Los Angeles, think their experience holds limited lessons for police governance in Britain.
Alongside Mr Schwarzenegger's appointed (mainly Republican) cabinet of advisers on transport, finance, education and so on, there is another cabinet's-worth of directly elected (and thus currently Democrat) officials, such as the state treasurer, insurance commissioner and so on.Still harder to fathom is who pays for what.
Since South Africa has the world's largest number of AIDS cases, and one of its highest infection rates, this was bad news, as was Mr Mbeki's health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who was appointed mainly because she agreed with him, and recommended beetroot and garlic as treatment for the disease.
Upon arrival, in makeshift camps the recruits received basic training in drill and musketry from officers and non-commissioned officers, who were not trained instructors and had been appointed mainly because they had previous service in the part-time forces.
In 1965 these newly appointed directors, mainly orthopedic surgeons, established the Casualty Surgeons Association.
The selection of staff participants were mainly those who were appointed primary contacts for the new resident, and those they interacted with.
Those who openly and prophetically position themselves well beyond the mainstream of Catholicism are hardly likely to win the support, in a papal conclave, of the necessary two-thirds of cardinal electors, especially when John Paul II, since arriving in the Vatican in 1978, had made a point of appointing mainly like-minded traditionalists to this upper echelon of the hierarchy.
Although most of those opposed to women's ordination left nearly 20 years ago when the first female priests were appointed, a conservative, mainly high church, rump has remained, making common cause with their theological opposites, the conservative evangelicals, in opposing what they see as the taint of a female bishop's touch.
They appointed a cabinet mainly consisting of civilians led by Prime Minister Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, who had been the titular Vice President under Diệm.
The New Jersey Fish & Game Council, composed of mainly hunters, appoints the director's position.
