verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appoint a cabinet
▪ The Prime Minister appoints the cabinet.
appoint a commission (=choose the members of a commission)
▪ The President appointed a commission to develop standards in schools.
appoint a leader (=officially announce that someone is leader)
▪ Green was appointed deputy leader.
appoint sb to a post (=give someone a job officially)
▪ Mr Collingwood has been appointed to the post of Headteacher.
appoint/set up/form a committee
▪ The council appointed a special committee to study the issue.
be appointed to the board
▪ They agreed that an independent chairman should be appointed to the board.
choose/appoint a successor
▪ The Board met to choose his successor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
newly
▪ Its future is assured, thanks to the support of newly appointed headteacher Robert Powell.
▪ Emygdius' ability to evangelize created such a stir that the newly appointed bishop was beheaded.
▪ Five members were newly appointed including two women.
▪ But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.
▪ In March 1981 the office-holders of the association decided to invite the newly appointed Ambassador Popov to lunch.
▪ Still, newly appointed Cabinet members maintained a cautious outlook after their morning meeting.
recently
▪ Martha was the recently appointed tutor in creative writing.
▪ Rod Grams recently appointed a Pennington County extension agent to his rural policy task force.
▪ He was also an enthusiastic sportsman, and was recently appointed an honorary chairman of Selkirk Cricket Club.
▪ Problems by the bushel await Prior and his recently appointed team of deputies.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ Third, all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members.
▪ In return, local authorities were empowered to appoint the teachers in such schools for all subjects other than religious instruction.
▪ This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.
▪ Health post: Yorkshire regional health authority has appointed Len Wright as its new director of finance.
▪ Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place.
▪ The principal officers of the local authority are those which the authority decides to appoint.
▪ Health authorities are currently appointing some health professionals, mainly doctors, into managerial positions with nursing as part of their remit.
board
▪ Third, all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members.
▪ He will appoint a five-member board that serves at his pleasure to oversee development of the island for city use.
▪ It was at this time that the wellknown property mover and solicitor Noel Smyth appointed nominees to the board of Chestvale.
▪ Then, Clinton also intervened, without appointing an emergency board, by appealing to both parties to agree to binding arbitration.
▪ Sonia Land was appointed to the Board on 25 March 1992.
▪ Taylor was appointed to the UMass board by Gov.
▪ He joined the Screen Actors Guild in 1937 and was appointed to its board in 1941.
▪ The governor had replaced half of the appointed school board.
cabinet
▪ It chooses a Premier from amongst its number, who then appoints a Cabinet.
▪ Executive power is exercised by the President who appoints and leads the Cabinet.
▪ The normal practice is to appoint a Cabinet of fifteen to twenty-five members.
▪ The President appoints the Cabinet, and is assisted by two Vice-Presidents.
chairman
▪ The board appointed him chairman and managing director, a fulltime post.
▪ Following the defections, Copeland appointed himself treasurer and chairman of his own campaign.
▪ Paul Myners, 51, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Guardian Media Group.
▪ Martin Brookes has been appointed as the new chairman and succeeds Charlie Jones, who drops to vice chairman.
▪ Judges are normally appointed as chairmen of those numerous committees which are concerned with reform of substantive law or legal procedure.
commission
▪ On 9 October, 1912 the Football League appointed a commission to inquire into alleged illegal payments by the club.
▪ In July, Premier Whitney appointed his own three-man commission of inquiry to examine the subject of electrical power.
▪ He appoints a pontifical commission to conduct the administrative affairs of the state.
▪ They also appointed him to a commission to examine administrative reforms.
▪ Justice J. S. Verma was appointed to head the commission on May 27.
▪ Hoover, our hardest worked man, is at the White House appointing commissions.
▪ The University of Geneva appointed an international commission to investigate their work, which met in August 1983.
▪ He is going to have to appoint a commission to keep track of the commissions that he has appointed.
commissioner
▪ In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties.
▪ Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
▪ Rather than intervening directly, the Home Office appointed an independent commissioner, whose report vindicated Dyer's accusations.
▪ Mr Prager has been appointed one of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition.
▪ In 1694 he was appointed a customs commissioner, a post he held until 1701 and again from 1714 onward.
committee
▪ These committees regularly appoint their own members to the Court.
▪ But conservationists were outnumbered on the committee appointed to deal with land conservation.
▪ In 1822, a congressional committee was appointed to explore solutions to the problem.
▪ At a meeting of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Complaints made by the Officers of this Institution.
▪ A committee was then appointed to draw up the rules for the Convention and the delegates adjourned for the weekend.
▪ The committee members are appointed by the Committee of Selection.
▪ Former Senator John Tower was the head of an independent committee, appointed by Reagan, to look into the affair.
company
▪ Other directors will be appointed from within the company, Pegasus says.
▪ Inspectors had been appointed to investigate two companies under the control of Robert Maxwell.
council
▪ The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.
▪ Shalala appointed the council in March 1994.
▪ Town, city, and county managers are appointed by a council or commission.
▪ In July, for example, five Catholics were appointed to the Privy Council.
▪ A seven-member board, appointed by the councils in five cities that ring the bay, governs the port.
court
▪ Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act.
▪ Whatever is decided will be scrutinized by a court-appointed authority.
▪ All but one of the current justices on the state high court were appointed by the last two Republican governors.
▪ Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.
▪ It is possible therefore for the court to appoint a solicitor even though a guardian has been appointed.
deputy
▪ Problems by the bushel await Prior and his recently appointed team of deputies.
▪ Like any office holder, he could appoint his own deputy.
▪ He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships.
▪ Then appoint a deputy to take over the command of the Warden's duties and forces - possibly Sir Simon himself.
▪ When Amis became literary editor of the New Statesman, he appointed Barnes his deputy.
▪ Li Jing, hitherto deputy commander of the navy, was appointed as his deputy.
▪ Carnogursky was appointed First Deputy Premier.
director
▪ Sheila Tindle, 28, has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke.
▪ It also called a shareholders' meeting to appoint new directors.
▪ When you became a Minister you appointed me Managing Director.
▪ External and internal auditing Internal auditors are appointed by the directors.
executive
▪ In 1987, he was appointed chief executive of Leyland Daf.
▪ The Governor appoints the Premier, who appoints the executive Cabinet.
▪ This would have appointed a new executive committee which, in turn, would have chosen a new chairman.
▪ The Council appoints an Executive Director to control of the day-to-day running of the Society.
▪ Even the Equal Opportunities Commission appointed a male chief executive in 1985.
▪ Tomkins also announced that it had hired an executive search firm to help appoint a new chief executive.
government
▪ The government appointed in January 1938 remained in office for the rest of the war.
▪ Instead, he said, they should act like ambassadors, representing the positions of the government that appoints them.
▪ They are appointed by foreign governments, and once appointed, politically unaccountable.
▪ He promised that the new government he is appointing this week will deliver on the promised benefits of market reforms.
▪ The Government has already appointed a legal team in an effort to push through the building proposals.
▪ The President is both head of state and head of government and appoints a Cabinet.
▪ The Government appointed a special advisor to report upon possible solutions for community care and this report was published in early 1988.
governor
▪ On 25 August 1914 he was, however, appointed Military Governor of Paris, and its defence became entirely his responsibility.
▪ A commission appointed by the governor concluded that even a regiment could not have controlled the mob.
▪ Hong Kong politicians called on Mr Major to end months of uncertainty by immediately appointing a new Governor.
▪ In June 1646 Parliament appointed Mackworth governor of Shrewsbury, an office he held until his death.
guardian
▪ Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act.
▪ Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.
▪ You can appoint one or two guardians.
▪ James appointed new guardians with wider powers on each side of the Border, and troops were moved north.
▪ It is particularly important therefore to appoint a guardian.
head
▪ Brigadier-General Dan Harel, commander of the Artillery Corps, was appointed head of an army board of inquiry.
▪ After Clinton was elected in 1992, Herman was appointed head of the White House public liaison office.
▪ Fourth, a chief executive officer should be appointed as the undisputed head of the paid officers of the local authority.
▪ Prop 103 removes civil service protections from appointed department heads.
▪ Former Labour Party member Jac Rabie was appointed as its head.
▪ Who was this Eva Burrows who was being appointed over their heads?
▪ Read in studio Gloucester's historic King's School has just appointed a new head of school.
judge
▪ She was later appointed a skating judge.
▪ The same would be true if Clinton responds by scaring women about a flood of pro-life Dole-appointed judges.
▪ John Devaux, who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989, has been appointed a circuit judge.
▪ Federal judges are appointed, while state judges are elected.
▪ A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge.
▪ At the age of thirty, 1vo was appointed diocesan judge and proved himself to be incorruptible.
▪ There is only the fairness of what politically appointed election officials or politically appointed judges decide.
▪ Four years later, she was appointed supervising judge in Manhattan, where she heard more than 20, 000 cases.
leader
▪ Sometimes it is useful to appoint a team leader to help with the organization of the teams.
▪ But Mitterand accepted the situation, appointing the conservatives' leader, Jacques Chirac, as premier.
manager
▪ Sefton Council is to appoint a youth sport manager in the borough as part of a phased three year sporting programme.
▪ Brent McArthur has been appointed general manager.
▪ Northumbrian Water has appointed two new managers for the Teesside area.
▪ Then Michael Brown was appointed city manager.
▪ Sealy died in 1813, and Eleanor Coade appointed William Croggon as manager.
▪ John Chambers, 35, has been appointed commercial manager responsible for all estimating and purchasing activities.
member
▪ These committees regularly appoint their own members to the Court.
▪ He then appoints the members of the cabinet and clearly dominates the cabinet in the governmental process.
▪ On Monday Darlington council's transport committee will be recommended to join the steering group and appoint a member.
▪ Still, newly appointed Cabinet members maintained a cautious outlook after their morning meeting.
▪ This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.
▪ The council appoints the members of the board once every four years at its statutory meeting.
▪ This standard would also apply to an individual appointed as a member of such a public body.
minister
▪ To ensure that our plans for science and technology diffuse throughout government Labour will appoint a minister for science.
▪ The President appoints the Prime Minister and, on the latter's recommendation, the other members of the government.
▪ The President appoints a Prime Minister and a Cabinet, with whom he governs.
office
▪ Mausolus M 9 shows the satrap appointing two Karians to office in Xanthos.
▪ The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
▪ Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
▪ First priority, however, was to appoint a head office team.
▪ Competitions 1992 was busy again with promoters appointing the Office as Competition Administrators.
officer
▪ When this was not done the judge ordered a receiver to be appointed as an officer of the court in place of the trustees.
▪ Three years later, he was appointed chief financial officer.
▪ Communication Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company's general manager.
▪ To further the necessary changes within the workshop we appointed an education officer and an industrial liaison officer.
▪ Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer, Nick Lewer.
▪ She appointed officers, kept a watch over financial affairs, and made sure the work was progressing smoothly.
▪ Some governing bodies appoint a press officer.
▪ All members will be appointed by honourary officers.
party
▪ Ernest Marples, Macmillan's Transport Minister, appointed two working parties to find solutions.
▪ Chuan had been under considerable pressure to appoint the Democrat Party secretary-general, Maj.-Gen.
▪ The surveyor was duly appointed by the parties under the lease.
person
▪ The main features of committees are: They elect or have appointed a person who chairs the meeting.
▪ Such a clause may provide for the president of the professional body to appoint such a person.
post
▪ Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.
▪ She had been appointed to big post in State Department there.
▪ Eric Connor has been appointed to the new post of director of resources at Northern Electric's operational director's department.
▪ Lahoud, formerly commander in chief of the army, uses officers he has appointed to key posts as his power base.
▪ Cumin makes the significant point that employers appoint school leavers to posts before examination results are known in any case.
▪ Julie Jack, emeritus fellow in philosophy, was appointed to a teaching post at King's College, Cambridge.
▪ Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post.
power
▪ Where a guardian ad litem is not appointed initially there is power to appoint at any subsequent stage in the proceedings.
▪ Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.
▪ Local authorities no longer have the power to appoint their own auditors.
▪ As part of the new consumer protection arrangements, a Pensions Ombudsman with wide-ranging powers has recently been appointed.
▪ The court also has a power to appoint new trustees and to remove a trustee for unfitness or misconduct.
▪ However, in the late eighteenth century the monarch still wielded considerable political power, appointing and dismissing governments according to choice.
▪ Mr Kostunica's main power is in appointing the foreign and defence ministers and the army chief of staff.
president
▪ The President appoints a Vice-President and a Cabinet, all of whom are responsible to the Assembly.
▪ The law allows the president to appoint a three-member presidential emergency board to examine the contract dispute and produce non-binding recommendations.
▪ Executive power is exercised by the President who appoints and leads the Cabinet.
▪ The President appoints the Council of Ministers.
▪ As president, Sukarno appointed and dismissed all the Ministers, who were responsible to him.
receiver
▪ In that case a debenture holder had appointed a receiver, and the directors were allowed to bring a case against him.
▪ Her affairs were placed in the hands of the Court of Protection, which appointed Mrs B receiver.
▪ Sound Diffusion ordinary shares were suspended in December at 22p and the group asked its bankers to appoint a receiver.
▪ A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy.
▪ B and L were unable to keep up with their loan repayments and the bank appointed administrative receivers.
▪ To appoint a receiver is more convenient for the mortgagee than taking possession.
representative
▪ Recommendations on appointing representatives from Aboriginal communities to various local and national policy boards have been implemented.
▪ Wells has appointed a representative or two who occasionally show up at local events.
▪ Each functional manager appoints a representative who is responsible for the project within his department.
▪ On 13 March 1990 Winchester was formally appointed as appointed representative of Norwich Union by a letter of that date.
secretary
▪ He moved even higher when later appointed First Secretary of the Writers' Union.
▪ But good news came when Truman appointed Dean Acheson secretary of state.
▪ An outside auditor appointed by the Secretary of Transportation will analyse Amtrak's financial practices, especially its strategic business plan.
▪ If Bush wins, he should appoint Clinton as his secretary of state and give Gore a seat in the cabinet.
▪ Powell lost his bid to have his ally Richard Armitage, appointed as deputy defence secretary under Rumsfeld.
staff
▪ His recommendation was that a commanding officer be appointed with an administrative staff.
▪ Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.
▪ They might also seek to appoint unqualified staff because of the apparent savings that can be made.
▪ Initially he was appointed to the air staff at Bomber Command.
state
▪ It is for the monarch to appoint counsellors of state whenever she wishes, delegating whatever powers she wishes.
▪ Federal judges are appointed, while state judges are elected.
▪ The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State.
▪ The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval.
successor
▪ He began as deputy to Sir Michael Checkland and was appointed his successor without any other candidates being interviewed.
▪ Clinton has appointed three successors to the vacant posts.
▪ Richard Baxter appointed Mr. Baldwin his successor as pastor of the believers in Kidderminster.
▪ On Sept. 10 Mohamed Moada was appointed as his successor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A committee was appointed to consider changes to the Prison Service.
▪ Judge Bailey appointed a new time for the trial.
▪ Pope John Paul II appointed several new bishops.
▪ Schreiber was appointed director of human resources.
▪ Simpson has been appointed to the Memphis Branch board for a three-year term.
▪ The committee was appointed to make recommendations on housing development in the area.
▪ The company has appointed a new sales director.
▪ The French president has appointed a new Minister for Culture.
▪ They have appointed Jane Staller as their new East Coast manager.
▪ This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to the post.
▪ When he was governor, Brown appointed Rose Bird as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the appointed hour for the concert to begin, crowds began streaming off the parade route and into the park.
▪ Departments with an eye to the ratings tend to appoint established researchers with proven records, rather than younger, unpublished candidates.
▪ Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.
▪ She was later appointed a skating judge.
▪ The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.