Sentence examples for paid appointment from inspiring English sources

As a further (paid) appointment is banned by law, Mr Bush is now looking for an alternative way to save his beleaguered ambassador, possibly by naming him "acting" ambassador.

These are usually paid appointments and may last 10 weeks in the case of MIT or 3 months or longer at UCSC.

That makes sense: corporate governance has been a booming industry as checks and balances have had to be tightened in areas of pay, appointments and audit.

The appointment paid dividends.

She feigned a pressing appointment, paid full price for her crackers and sodium-free vegetable broth.

I simply booked an appointment, paid my fee, downloaded Google's chat software and there I was – face to face with an expert.

"You've got to be careful not to be unwilling to show people exactly what happened," Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall, where much more attention was paid to his appointment of Jennifer Lopez to a city commission than to the blackout study.

In a matter of less than three months, Mr. Blagojevich had been charged with federal corruption, including scheming to get paid for his appointment of a successor to Mr. Obama in the Senate; had gone on, despite objections from nearly every corner, to appoint Mr. Burris to the seat; and had been removed from office and replaced by Mr. Quinn.

The credits, valued at $1 apiece, can be used at Woodhull and its clinics to pay for appointments, lab tests and medical procedures.

As it happened, 68% of the electorate did, passing a measure that requires listed companies to offer shareholders a binding vote on senior managers' pay and appointments at each annual general meeting.

Mutual funds and pension funds are being forced to take a view, and hence become more active and forward-looking.European and Asian shareholders say they do not need activists because they have more power than American investors over managers' pay and appointments.