What's the difference between appointee and placeman?
Appointee
Definition:
(v. t.) A person appointed.
(v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report, Letting the big fish swim: failure to prosecute high-level corruption in Uganda , published on Monday, said no high-ranking official, minister or political appointee had served a prison sentence despite investigations into numerous corruption scandals.
(2) All Harris appointees now have titles along with Lord Harris himself.
(3) That … would color his approach to Vladimir Putin and the Russian threat.” McCain nonetheless said Trump’s appointees would be given a fair hearing in the Senate, where they must first clear relevant committees before receiving a vote in the broader chamber.
(4) In March, the tribunal ruled unconstitutional a reform to the court that would have given more power to PiS appointees and forced the court to consider cases in chronological order, hampering its ability to scrutinise government activity.
(5) But not only do Corbett and his appointees at the SRC think that the educators of Philadelphia can’t do basic math, they also think we have amnesia.
(6) On Thursday, a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was fired after it was noticed that he had written a critical opinion column about Trump in October.
(7) Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company Read more The top level officials in the National Security Council (NSC) are political appointees who have to submit resignations and leave in a normal transition.
(8) In 2012-13 – the first year the statistics were published – 37.15% of appointments were of female candidates, while women accounted for 39.2% of the appointees in 2013-14.
(9) Doumar, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled that Gloucester high school could force Grimm to use unisex bathrooms because Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate bathrooms based on sex as long as the bathrooms for each sex are comparable”, he wrote.
(10) The tribunal’s new president promptly sent Rzepliński’s deputy on indefinite leave, giving PiS-appointees a majority.
(11) To think of her, not as a new appointee to an important role, not as a highly talented person taking the next step in her career, but as a woman and a mother.
(12) Ed Miliband's recent appointee to the House of Lords, Lord Glasman, is considered the "intellectual godfather" of the Labour party.
(13) The secretary of state approved four candidates on the basis that they met the specific skills and experiences set out in Ofcom’s advertised job descriptions.” The four new appointees are Simon Bax, the chairman of the Norwich-based newspaper group Archant and a former top Pixar executive; the ex-BBC executive and British Library chief Roly Keating ; Paul Geddes, the chief executive of Direct Line; and Christopher Holmes, the former Paralympic swimmer, who runs his own consultancy.
(14) If his aides didn’t keep changing his Twitter password, there’d be no job in the UK for which he wouldn’t suggest a head‑turning appointee.
(15) As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week : “What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees.” Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose volunteer doctors had begun to treat Ebola cases as soon as the outbreak was officially diagnosed in March – three months after the first case – had warned WHO in strong terms that this outbreak was different from previous ones.
(16) The Department of Justice, in my view, is run by political appointees of the president,” he testified .
(17) In 2003-05 the Kayhan newspaper led the way with a series of critical editorials by Hossein Shariatmadari, who as editor-in-chief is an appointee of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
(18) So it is unfortunate that the most recent appointee to the role, Liz Truss , has taken over the helm at a critical stage in the ongoing failure of the prison system, with murder, violence, self-harm, suicide, riots and even escapees a regular occurrence.
(19) The activists have a long list of demands: votes against “all Trump appointees”, opposing his supreme court nominee, using congressional procedures to “bring all business to a crawl to block Trump’s agenda and demand Steve Bannon be fired”.
(20) In addition to Posner – whom Ronald Reagan appointed in 1981 – the judges on the 7th circuit panel included 2009 Barack Obama appointee David Hamilton and Ann Claire Williams, a 1999 Bill Clinton appointee.
Placeman
Definition:
(n.) One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moscow's placeman Najibullah lasted three years after the last Russian troops left before he made his fatal error of rejecting safe passage outside the capital, wrongly assuming he would be safe from the Taliban.
(2) America's placeman, Hamid Karzai, does not look likely to last that long.
(3) First came liberation from the British; now comes liberation from the west's placeman, and indeed from the limiting western views of what is possible in Arab society.
(4) Labour members are expected to press him on his business ties and political links, and in particular will ask about his relationship to David Cameron amid concerns that Patten will be a political placeman at the top of the corporation.
(5) Could Boris already be seeking a placeman to run in his stead as London mayor in 2016?