Sentence examples for was almost appointed from inspiring English sources

Mr Letten fell on his sword.Remarkably, the unmasking of the two rogue prosecutors was engineered by Fred Heebe, a landfill magnate, who was almost appointed US attorney himself a decade ago.

The portrait was of Martin T. Manton, who sat for two decades on the prestigious federal appeals court for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, and who was almost appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

The wounded scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost immediately appointed head of Iran's atomic agency.

In 1926, at the age of 24, he joined America's foreign service and was almost immediately appointed vice-consul in Geneva.

(Dogcatchers, it should be noted, are almost always appointed).

With Syria, it was almost a year before Kofi Annan was appointed a United Nations envoy, by which stage the situation was so violent and polarised his options were constrained.

Justice O'Connor made the comments in an interview on Tuesday after a fly-fishing trip with the outdoor editor of The Spokane Spokesman-Review, where she was also quoted as saying that she was almost sure Mr. Bush would not appoint a woman to replace William H. Rehnquist because she did not think he would want a woman as chief justice.

When Mr. Levy was first appointed, the board president insisted that there was almost no chance he would become permanent chancellor.

Bluntly put, the New Labour council of a northern town is almost never going to appoint a Tory chief executive.

"Kellyanne, it's almost like Mr. Trump appoints these people specifically to undermine the very agencies they head," the spoof Tapper said.

Given that it's been almost three months since Geithner was appointed, and given that, as head of the New York Fed, he was involved in the crisis from the beginning, I think the expectation was that he was going to introduce a detailed, comprehensive plan for dealing with the toxic assets on bank balance sheets.