Sentence examples for sort of appointment from inspiring English sources

This sort of appointment is made by a company in need of a drastic change in strategic direction.

Tan has had no such luck convincing supporters of the wisdom of sacking Mackay and it is difficult to see what sort of appointment he can pull off to turn things back in his favour.

Patten told Marr there would not be the sort of lengthy appointment process that led to Entwistle's appointment in the summer.

I wondered why he hadn't gone on to a bigger school or found himself some sort of political appointment.

Two men who don't seem to like each other much wait on a lonely road for a man they have never met before and with whom they have some sort of vague appointment.

Asked yesterday on the NBC program "Meet the Press" whether they would consider some sort of joint appointment if proposed by President Bush, neither Mr. Kean nor Mr. Hamilton rejected the idea.

Maybe there are times when that sort of placeholder appointment is more of an honor than anything else.

They would have to make some sort of later appointment to speak to the young person and have a serious chat which in itself would then single them out from, you know if there was a mass queue" [School nurse, UK] [ 69].

While we didn't bother to arrange any sort of ice fishing appointment in advance, through the power of Quebecois charm and free beer, Tommy was able to convince a gentleman named Serge--who was hanging out in his ice fishing hut solo--to teach us the ancient art of pulling free food from a nearly-frozen body of water.

They don't sort of come to appointments on time….

Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, a Long Island Democrat who co-sponsored Jonathan's Law, called Mr. Wise's appointment "sort of frightening".