Sentence examples for state appointees from inspiring English sources

Within a month the government had dissolved both organisations' elected boards and replaced them with state appointees.

He wants these critical decisions to be made primarily by a new mayoral commission -- with no state appointees.

Dozens of elected local officials, including 47 of the country's 106 mayors, have also resigned in recent months, to be replaced by state appointees.

Now, however, a panel of state appointees, created after Hurricane Katrina to be largely insulated from politics, showed just how insulated it was by upending the agreement.

And complicating matters, in November Michigan residents voted to overturn the state's emergency manager law, which granted sweeping power to state appointees sent to struggling cities and which was a legal underpinning of the agreement that brought the oversight board to Detroit.

Statistics for the proportion of women mayors internationally don't exist, and "mayor" can mean different things: some are directly elected, with the strongest mandates and highest profiles; others are the leaders of city councils elected by fellow councillors; some are state appointees.

Oh, and also, an unelected state appointee will be running your city until further notice.

At the time, 1995, Mr. Towey was the first state appointee to be rejected in 20 years.

And so, the stage was set for a new mayor – one not under the controlling thumb of a state appointee – to exercise her authority.

State appointee William Chadwick was absent from the meeting.

Michigan's law grants far more sweeping powers to one state appointee.