appointee

Example Sentences

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Mamdani can choose his own replacements at the end of next year, when all five Adams appointees’ terms will be up.

From The Wall Street Journal

Marocco was meant to be “the destroyer, and then someone else would come in to rebuild,” one former official said a senior political appointee had told her.

From Salon

The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a group of coin experts, artists and bipartisan political appointees, consulted historians, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution and others.

From The Wall Street Journal

Typically, Congress gave the appointees, a mix of Republicans and Democrats, a fixed term and said they could be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Fed presidents provide an apolitical buffer because they aren’t political appointees and often have no partisan background.

From The Wall Street Journal