Sentence examples for string of appointments from inspiring English sources

The traditional preserve of an editor to hire staff has been eroded by Mr MacLennan with a string of appointments since the papers' owners Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay appointed him chief executive of the Telegraph Group in August 2004.

Mr Tsvangirai complained bitterly that President Robert Mugabe had made a string of appointments, including six ambassadorships, without consulting him.

Her life was a string of appointments -- recertification for welfare, screenings for public housing, the sign-ins to collect vouchers for the federal food supplement program, W.I.C.

THE battle over Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on America's Supreme Court has been shaping up for half a century, ever since a long string of appointments by President Franklin D. Roosevelt swung the court decisively to the left.

Evidence that Apple is building a car has become unavoidable, from secretive testing and research sites to the purchase of car-related domain names and, crucially, a string of appointments of specialist car engineers.

All too often Ph.D. graduates "sleepwalk" into postdoc appointments--not just one but a string of appointments that often leads nowhere.

His developing expertise led to a string of appointments to committees: in 1993 to the Government's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment ( ACRE), in 1998 to the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes ( ACNFP), and in 2000 to the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission ( AEBC.

A string of political appointments have been made at universities.