Sentence examples for rare appointment from inspiring English sources
Rivers was appointed to be majority whip for the session, a rare appointment for a freshman senator.
He asked if Mr. Mahoney might be interested in the Circuit Court of Appeals, second only to the Supreme Court in prestige and a rare appointment for a party leader.
In 1920 Angell accepted the presidency of the Carnegie Corporation and in 1921 became the 14th president of Yale at the time, a rare appointment for a non-Yale graduate.
In a rare appointment of an outsider to a senior position, the Bank of Ireland Group hired Michael Soden, the general manager of global business and personal financial services at National Australia Bank, to become chief executive when Maurice Keane retires from the post in February.
By the spring, I had reached the stage where three strangers — a manicurist, a doorman and a hairdresser — all asked the just-chloroform-me-now question "When are you due?" After nearly two years of failed treatment by Manhattan's marquee endocrinologists, I lucked out and landed a rare appointment with a California anti-aging doctor who has treated stubborn cases like mine.
In her case, the disputes led to the rare appointment of a special outside counsel, a former federal prosecutor named Billy Martin, and the decision by the panel's chairman and vice chairman and other committee members to recuse themselves from the inquiry and allow new specially appointed members to handle the matter.
Bush eventually made him a rare recess appointment in 2004, and he was finally confirmed by the Senate as part of a compromise deal.
The selection of an interim mayor, which would be decided by the Board of Supervisors in January in a rare special appointment, would reshape San Francisco politics.
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Appointments at Frick News of appointments are rare at the Frick Collection, whose staff is small and has little turnover.
For a medieval queen, this official form of corulership, combining exalted royal status with official political appointment, was rare and striking.
