Sentence examples for unprecedented appointment from inspiring English sources

ICI egos had been bruised by this unprecedented appointment of an outsider.

It was an unprecedented appointment which was greeted with some cynicism but now, a decade on, each and every club has sports science departments.

It was an unprecedented appointment but he made a huge success of it and, to general delight, stayed for a second year after the initial contract had expired.

She had already been named to head the President's task force on health-care reform, an unprecedented appointment for a First Lady, and dozens of journalists were competing to land the first interview with her in her new position.

Matt Whitaker's unprecedented appointment to acting Attorney General has been slammed by legal experts on both sides of the aisle as unconstitutional and solely aimed at quashing special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

As historian Donald Shively explains, "Michinaga shocked even his admirers by arranging for the unprecedented appointment of Teishi (or Sadako) and Shōshi as concurrent empresses of the same emperor, Teishi holding the usual title of "Lustrous Heir-bearer" kōgō and Shōshi that of "Inner Palatine" (chūgū), a toponymically derived equivalent coined for the occasion".

Rubio, the Florida senator, said it was not unprecedented for no appointment to be made in an election year.

Congressional Republicans are calling the appointment "unprecedented" and "illegitimate" — that is rich given that they are determined to use any and all tactics to thwart the bureau and the Dodd-Frank reform law that created it.

Richard Chait, an expert on tenure and an advocate of reform, calls the current mixture of tenured and non-tenure-track appointments "unprecedented".

"But all I can say is that this would be a game-changing appointment, an unprecedented one in my lifetime, and yes, change we can truly believe in this time".

Mr. McConnell has called those appointments an "unprecedented power grab".