Many of their children learned the game of politics, managing to get appointed to the public sector, so that they could be guaranteed their salary come rain or shine.
That process, Mr. Gill said, permitted a teacher convicted of sexual abuse to get appointed to a Bronx junior high school.
That is, Mrs. Zelnik, your mother, in whose name our property is still registered, and will be to the end of her life — and who knows what she thought to write in her will — or until the two of us manage to get appointed her guardians".
Ultimately, getting appointed the C.E.O. of Yahoo is somewhat like being hired as the drummer in Spinal Tap.
We need more transparency and openness at Metra and the other agencies, generally, and, specifically, about the process of who gets appointed to the board.
In many of those cases, I get appointed an officer of the court by a federal judge, so I have subpoena power and power to compel testimony, but also Kroll's resources.
But he questioned whether, as the years pass, this team of firefighting bishops will have any edge over their brethren in their careers because, he said, "As time goes on, more and more of the bishops who get appointed will have no bad record on sexual abuse".
In other words, it doesn't matter who sits in the White House, who controls the two houses of Congress, or who gets appointed to the Supreme Court: only those who are prepared to cozy up to the powers-that-be will have any real impact.
He disarmed the two most potent politicians in the Socialist Party — the international activist Bernard Kouchner, whom he made his foreign minister, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the finance minister for the former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whom he got appointed head of the International Monetary Fund.
Most of my neighbors were sucking their candy while looking at the television, watching a pastel-colored romance about a tough bodyguard and his wife, who's very concerned about climate change; she somehow gets appointed minister of ecology, setting her up to be targeted by terrorists, from whom he rescues her.
