Appointing Quotations

She can thank her lightning political career to the fact that Helmut Kohl needed to have a woman and an east German in his cabinet in 1991. By appointing Merkel, Kohl killed two birds with one stone.

If Australia want to regain the Ashes they would dramatically improve their chances by appointing Shane Warne as captain,

CEOs and directors realize that board discussions are richer when individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives participate. The challenge is finding qualified women and minority candidates. Boards have a responsibility to shareholders to align the composition of the board with the business strategy by appointing directors who add value to the board and company. But, there is still only a small number of women and minorities among senior corporate executives, and they are in high demand.

He's keen to get involved in some capacity. We need to have a second team running next season and we feel that appointing a local lad like Lee will be best to help get things moving.

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

We have always been appointing and consecrating our own bishops. This is what we must stick to.

Microsoft is unveiling a major reorganization today to help get Vista out the door. Some of the major changes include the appointing of three new officers to the three major divisions. The Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division will be led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-presidents; Jeff Raikes has been named president of the Microsoft Business Division; and Robbie Bach has been named as president of Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division. In addition, the company said Ray Ozzie will expand his role as chief technical officer by assuming responsibility for helping drive its software-based services strategy and execution across all three divisions.

We've got the best part of six months in real terms - the first international after the World Cup is in August - but that will not be the way we play it. I hope the appointment won't be after the World Cup and there's no reason why it should be. We have the opportunity of appointing before the World Cup and the upside of that is they can watch the side they will inherit in August with a sense of semi-distant ownership, and it may well be an advantage.

We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.

We would like very much that (Abbas) will have the capability of appointing a government that goes in the direction that President Mubarak and the EU would like to go.

The governor is not appointing my people, and I don't get into a snit about it.

you cannot expect the Iraqis to think that they have their own government if we're appointing their people. We need an election.

The SEC desperately needs someone who both has a deep knowledge of how the markets function and at the same time possesses a rock-ribbed integrity. Bill Donaldson is such a man. I salute the administration for appointing him and appointing him quickly.

We feel like you did the right thing in appointing a planning commission.

During the first four years of justices' tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high level with their appointing president's ideology, but for justices with ten or more years of service, that relationship drops precipitously,

That?s where the bigger payoff would be. It?s a nice gesture, appointing nonvoting members to the board, but I think their energies would be wasted there.

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

I'm flying blind here. I guess it makes sense that she's a qualified conservative. I can't imagine the President appointing an loose canon ignoramus just because he knew them. I guess we'll find out after she's installed.

If you follow through on when he was Navy secretary, his record of appointing women to high-level positions at the Department of the Navy was unprecedented.

I've had several calls from people, who said there's something not fair about appointing someone to the vacancy. If there is no election and the appointment goes through, there's about a 90-percent chance of it being contested.

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.

He's appointing the people who gave him money. He's making the appointments the same way 90% of the politicians do it.

After more than seven years as CEO, I believe the time is right for someone else to take HBOS forward. In appointing Andy, the board has chosen the best person for the job.

Appointing a strong Business Development Director with a proven track record, who already knows Constructing Excellence well, is a big step forward in the restructuring of Constructing Excellence. He has an important contribution to make in demonstrating the value we provide to new and existing members of Constructing Excellence.

Appointing former politicians to the job is dreadful, dreadful, dreadful, because you don't want anyone with the appearance of bias when a question of constitution comes up. So she was a welcome appointee.

The national case precedent says the appointing body can remove a member of a board they appointed with cause. It has to be some kind of malfeasance.

It's like appointing the accuser as the prosecutor, judge and jury.

We will be in the business of appointing who we believe will be the right man to take care of one of the finest international teams in the world.

I commend the leadership for appointing a select committee to at least hear from the people whom this is going to affect the most.

I do think it is passing strange that in 2005 the Federal Cabinet of this country is responsible for appointing the board of Australia's largest commercial enterprise,

In appointing the next nominee, (Bush) must listen to all Americans, not just the far right.