Sentence examples for not only appoint from inspiring English sources

One of the peculiar things about this story is that, because of all the tumult, Mayor Brown was able to not only appoint the first Asian chief of the department and the first black chief — which he did before the scandal — but also to name the first woman chief and then to turn the department back over to an Irish chief, Alex Fagan.

Mr. Merletti said that the F.B.I. alleged that he and Mr. Clinton had concocted this deal: in exchange for Mr. Merletti's stonewalling questions about Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Clinton would not only appoint him director of the Secret Service but would also provide him women for sexual encounters.

Its members, schooled in the old system of privilege, were not only appointed by Mr. Mubarak, but they worked alongside him for many years.

For his dangerous work for British forces he was not only appointed OBE (later rescinded), but received two mentions in dispatches.

When Piero della Francesca was commissioned by the Corpus Domini Confraternity in 1469 to execute a panel of the "Communion of the Apostles," Giovanni Santi was not only appointed to coordinate the project, but also lodged the artist in his own house.

This time, the two main candidates, Andrew Motion and Geoffrey Hill, are both men, which means that Oxford gets to avoid not only appointing its first female Poetry Professor but also, in doing so, a repetition of the scandal that de-seated Padel.

Uniquely, Argentina not only appointed a truth commission which identified killers and torturers, but jailed the leaders of the military juntas themselves.Raul Alfonsin's government, the first after military rule, could do that because the junta had collapsed in the wake of defeat in its 1982 Falklands war with Britain.

(He was right then: The governor not only appoints the head of the MTA, but also a plurality of its board. The MTA is chartered by the state, and even the agency's own website says the governor appoints the members).

But now the international advisory board to be named in the resolution would have the ability not only to appoint auditors but also to monitor the workings of the fund on an ongoing basis.

Later, Kerry told me, "I would only appoint judges who understand the Bill of Rights and who wouldn't reinterpret settled law.

A Tory source said the charge of lack of transparency was "nonsense", adding: "Not only did Gordon Brown appoint Sir Peter Gershon as an efficiency adviser twice but, under our plans, the Department of Health is protected – efficiency savings will be invested back into the frontline".