Sentence examples for tried to appoint from inspiring English sources

Then it tried to appoint Henry Kissinger, of all people, to head the investigative panel.

ʿAbbās dismissed Muṣṭafā Fahmī in January 1893 and tried to appoint his own nominee as prime minister.

Jeb Bush tried to appoint a legal guardian for the fetus of a developmentally disabled rape victim.

His predecessor resigned after President Alejandro Toledo tried to appoint Fernando Olivera, an unpopular ally, as foreign minister.See articleCuba's Communist government celebrated the 79th birthday of Fidel Castro.

After the Supreme Court upheld Missouri's restrictive abortion law in 1989, then Governor Ashcroft tried to appoint a task force to tighten the law even further.

In April Mr Rohani tried to appoint his deputy chief of staff, Hamid Aboutalebi, as head of Iran's UN mission in New York.

I think you've got to try to appoint good people and keep them".

Mr. Aronsohn said the governor was still trying to appoint spokesmen for some departments.

"Then we try to appoint a conservative judge to the Supreme Court, and the Democrats beat us up on it for five months and piss off the public.

Corruption cases against senior politicians drag on for years without a verdict.Ms Fernández has been trying to appoint loyalists as judges and prosecutors.

And so rather than try to appoint a formal conference, which would require at least three steps that Republicans could filibuster, the Democrats are preparing an alternate strategy.