Sentence examples for surprise appointment from inspiring English sources

ITV ended its tortuous search for a chief executive yesterday with the surprise appointment of Adam Crozier, the man best known for appointing Sven-Goran Eriksson England football manager, and currently the head of Royal Mail.

It was a surprise appointment.

Here are some of the reaction to Neville's surprise appointment: Gutted!

It's a surprise appointment because Ainsworth was seen as competent, but not necessarily cabinet material.

Another surprise appointment was the inexperienced Benoît Hamon, to the education portfolio.

Their double departure followed Dawn Airey's surprise appointment as the channel's new chairman and chief executive.

Fulham were not thinking that either when they made their surprise appointment at the end of 2007.

Then, in a surprise appointment, he was made bishop of Orléans, the city where he had been baptized.

The 55-year-old is clear that, despite his surprise appointment, every Chelsea player responded to him, bar one.

Varley chaired Barclays asset-managementt operations before his surprise appointment as head of retail financial services a year ago.

Kituyi was seen by many as a surprise appointment and faces high expectations as the new head of Unctad.