Sentence examples for upon appointing from inspiring English sources

Upon appointing Mr. Poots, the Armory's board increased its operating budget to $14.2 million, from $9 million in a previous phase when Kirsty Edmunds served as the consulting artistic director.

"I have a job to do here and therefore I cannot and will not let the nation down," declared Pervez Musharraf upon appointing himself president of Pakistan on June 20th.

Glenn suggested the FA had opted against drawing up succession plans before Euro 2016 "because we didn't want to undermine [Hodgson]" but, in the wake of arguably the most embarrassing result in the national team's 144-year history, is intent upon appointing "the best man for the job".

According to Woodford, Kikukawa had reminded him privately upon appointing him president: "I am the one who has the authority to hire and fire, and to decide remuneration for board members and the next tier down of management," thus signalling Woodford was "little more than his puppet".

"He has a probing intellect and a remarkable work ethic," Obama stated this month upon appointing Donilon, thereby reducing ethics to a variant of ambition rather than morality, "although it's one that depends on a seemingly limitless quantity of Diet-Coke".

Upon appointing Miller, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch said "Our focus moving forward is twofold: to enable our digital businesses to flourish as individual entities and to bolster the digital strategies of our core media properties by treating them as central to, and not separate from, the enterprise".

This year, upon being appointed Andrews' replacement, Scott Morrison announced that he would "stop the bludgers".

Upon being appointed artistic director at the Royal Court at the age of 32, Daldry became a theatre-world phenomenon.

The election commission has been called upon to appoint a group of people to write a new constitution.

The Roman Catholic church conferred episcopal rings upon newly appointed bishops, and so-called papal rings were given by popes to cardinals.

Upon being appointed president emeritus yesterday, Dr. Iselin said he would, like Cooper Union's graduates, "be able to claim forever a connection to this great institution".