Sentence examples for select officials from inspiring English sources

JOHANNESBURG — If all goes as expected, South Africa will soon be led by a president who is also the defendant in a criminal case, a man accused of fraud and racketeering, legally empowered to select officials who could either drop his prosecution or push it forward.

"We will only select officials with a proven track record of high-profile fights, with me evaluating a litany of statistical data to ensure these judges have been successful in high-impact fights," Nevada commission executive director Bob Bennett said.

Only selected officials in each state will be told of the dates and times the train will pass.

The cadre of officer candidates was selected, officials say, to represent Iraq's explosive mix of Arabs and Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites.

A wave of calls has gone to the private cellphone numbers of specially selected officials inside Iraq, according to leaders at the Pentagon and in the regional Central Command.

LOCAL environmental groups have long complained that New York City has selected officials to oversee its reservoir system based more on politics and cronyism than on competency and environmental expertise.

Some of the qualifying criteria, such as which fights counted as qualifying events, changed the math of who was selected, officials said.

"Writing letters to local newspapers and selected officials is obviously something that we would want to see concerned hosts do, but only if it applies to them and if they're motivated to do so," Jonathan says.

Meritocratic governance is deeply-rooted in China's Confucian political tradition, which among other things allowed the country to develop and sustain for well over a millennium the Keju system, the world's first public exam process for selecting officials.

His ideas for reform are often sensible, such as rationalising the overlapping functions of different UN departments and agencies, and selecting officials on merit rather than by country of origin.

Ramus argued unrelentingly in favor of a kind of meritocracy that implied selecting officials and professors on the basis of merits rather than lineage (Skalnik, pp. 41, 64 and 157).