Sentence examples for to get appointed from inspiring English sources

Many of their children learned the game of politics, managing to get appointed to the public sector, so that they could be guaranteed their salary come rain or shine.

It is the unspoken question on every big donor's lips: How much do I have to give — really — to get appointed to a desirable diplomatic post by the president?

But Professor Pope said, "Probably the person who's going to be appointed is going to have political pull in the Vatican and probably Richard Lennon does not have the connections to get appointed".

Mr. Smith was a perfect political virgin, who managed to get appointed to an interim Senate seat without ever having noticed that his home state had been in the grip of a corrupt machine for several decades.

Yet a chance meeting with the unknown Warhol soon led to that artist's first retrospective, which Mr. Green staged at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, where he had managed to get appointed as its director at 25. His aptitude for publicity and the grandiose gesture was on early display on the opening night of the Warhol show.

"I told everyone who would listen that I would love to be appointed to the seat, but what I did not want to do is to get appointed to the seat and have given up money," Mr. Burris said in an interview on radio station WGN here.

In 1991, Dole helped Bair get appointed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates commodity futures and option markets.

How did you get appointed to President Bush's Council on Bioethics? A. I received a call in the autumn of 2001 from Leon Kass, the chairman.

"You either die, you move out of the district where you're running or you get appointed to a judicial post," Mr. Daghlian said.

There are those who say that if he doesn't get appointed to the Supreme Court or become a college president, he will end up as a senator from somewhere (outer space, someone has suggester).

Mr. Lipsky of Lot 47, said, "If anybody thinks those committees are any less political, then they have to ask themselves how they get appointed".