(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
(v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
(v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(2) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(3) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(10) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
(11) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(12) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(13) "I think there is an absolutely determined effort from No 10 that Conservative supporters will be appointed to public bodies.
(14) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(15) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(16) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
(17) Elvira Nabiullina took office in June of this year after her appointment by President Putin – not a man known for his feminist views.
(18) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
(19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
Deputize
Definition:
(v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Example Sentences:
(1) On "Black Friday", as the suffragette deputation of November 18 1910 became known, when the suffragettes trying to reach parliament were treated particularly violently by roughs in the crowd and police who had orders to push them back, he also again, chivalrously, argued that the protesters "are citizens like the rest of us , and they have right to fair treatment and to the protection of the law".
(2) Florida senator Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that the government should not force Davis to sign same-sex marriage licenses and allow her to instead deputize someone else to sign on her behalf.
(3) The growth of group practice has not eliminated the demand for deputizing services.Sixty-six per cent.
(4) The case is made for the adoption of a standard primary-care record for people aged over 70 years to be retained by the patient and attached behind the front door, where it would be available to ambulance crews, deputizing doctors and other community health workers.
(5) This hypothesis leads to the problem of judging the validity of biological parameters deputed to represent good indices of aging.
(6) Referring to Edinburgh's decision, Graeme Kirkpatrick, the union's depute president, said: "A £36,000 degree is both staggering and ridiculous.
(7) In 1906, the WSPU headquarters moved to London and for the next few years the suffragettes engaged in various forms of civil disobedience, including heckling government ministers and deputations to parliament.
(8) The day the scandal broke, Hosie’s Westminister colleagues unanimously re-elected him as their depute group leader – a role he will keep despite standing down as overall SNP deputy leader.
(9) We have isolated from a genomic library of the pathogenic Neisseriae gonorrhoeae T2 strain, a gene encoding a putative protein of 268 amino acids which exhibited significant similarity to the hisJ and argT gene products of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli, periplasmic proteins deputed to amino acid transport within the cell.
(10) "The new regulations for noble titles should make you look to the future," he told the deputation last year.
(11) Fill another mug for Tim Geithner (who has left government but apparently is deputized to help Obama pick the new chair of the Federal Reserve) and several others.
(12) Deputed to load a pig into a van, young Harry saw the animal escape, and knock into a beehive, whose occupants seared its hide.
(13) of Sheffield general practitioners and 78% of those in Nottingham used a deputizing service in 1970.
(14) This suggest that these neurons are deputated to proprioceptive innervation of the extrinsic ocular muscles.
(15) If she personally doesn’t want to sign it, then she should allow someone to be deputized to sign on her behalf who doesn’t have that objection.” “That doesn’t give anybody the right to shut down the entire office,” he added.
(16) We used the routine data of the Vienna Doctors' Chamber's central deputizing service to throw light upon the diagnostic situation and at the method of management at the start of acute and emergency care in these patients.
(17) These questions were answered by a study of the Vienna emergency doctor's service, a General Practitioner deputizing service operating during all the nights and on weekend days.
(18) Half the referrals to the service were made by doctors working in deputizing services, less than 1% of referrals were due to inter-hospital transfers and half the referrals were made by general practitioners.
(19) In vitro experiments, with thymic whole-organ cultures, have demonstrated that thyroid hormones exert their action on the epithelial cells of the thymus deputed to synthesize and secrete thymic peptides and that such an effect does not seem to depend on the known permissive action of thyroid hormones.
(20) A faction of grandees and nobles have walked out of the Deputation of the Grandees, the body that has represented them for the past two centuries, as tempers fray over changes to the rules governing the way titles are handed down.