Sentence examples for win appointment from inspiring English sources

The current attorney general was among the first lawyers to win appointment to the board under the program.

One such prospect was Caroline Kennedy, who aides to Mr. Bloomberg thought would be sympathetic because of her awkward experience trying to win appointment to a Senate seat.

In January Raleb Majadele of the Israeli Labour Party became the first Muslim to win appointment to the Israeli cabinet, serving as minister without portfolio.

Later he made an intense effort to win appointment as the new Administration's Secretary of the Treasury, for which he seemed well suited.

Mr. Racicot's sudden visibility has prompted speculation that he could win appointment to a coveted post in a Bush administration, perhaps attorney general.

After disclosing he was H.I.V.-positive and taking on President Mbeki, Mr. Cameron was promoted to the appellate court, but never sought again to win appointment to the Constitutional Court until last year, assuming until then that his clash with Mr. Mbeki over AIDS would ruin his chances — an assumption fellow judges and lawyers say was almost certainly accurate.

Their expectation had been that they would begin to win appointments as bishops by 2014 if the change had been approved.

[It is] so overburdened that hundreds of thousands in need of medical attention wait for care, any care; people in towns like Norwalk, Ontario, participate in lotteries to win appointments with the local family doctor.

In his final years, Rafsanjani won appointment or election to other posts.

Green won appointment to the executive council of the AFL in 1913 and was elected president in 1924.

Wounded in the Second World War, he moved to California, started practicing law, and won appointment as a judge in 1961.