Sentence examples for major appointment from inspiring English sources

At first, Mr. Bush was abetted by a slavish Republican majority that balked at only one major appointment — Harriet Miers for Supreme Court justice, and then only because of doubts that she was far enough to the right.

Mr. Shaw would be the second major appointment in the Bloomberg administration.

Mr. Nézet-Séguin's first major appointment arrived in 2000, when he became music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain.

For Mr. Corzine, who was poised to make his first major appointment, it was an inauspicious opening act.

As well as Hammond and Johnson, another major appointment announced on Wednesday was Amber Rudd as home secretary.

He looked brave and pale, as you would if you had just looked in your diary and realized that your first major appointment was with Angela Merkel.

For major appointments, I interviewed candidates face to face.

President Bush -- himself a product of Yale and Harvard Business School -- turned to Princeton for two major appointments recently.

May made her first major appointments on Wednesday evening, naming Philip Hammond chancellor and Boris Johnson foreign secretary.

"Progressives are being entirely left out of Obama's major appointments so far".

Typically, he said, it takes a new governor about eight months to get major appointments in place.