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Appointment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
  • (n.) The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
  • (n.) Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
  • (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
  • (n.) The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
  • (n.) Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
  • (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.
  • (n.) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.

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.

Date


Definition:

  • (n.) Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
  • (n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
  • (n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
  • (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
  • (n.) Assigned end; conclusion.
  • (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
  • (v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
  • (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) The immunological methods based on the use of a flagellum-specific serum have confirmed the presence of a common flagellum antigen for all Legionella species described to date.
  • (4) It is the smallest avian tumor virus RNA detected to date.
  • (5) A relatively new method of estimating that date and constructing a corresponding Kaplan Meier curve is presented.
  • (6) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
  • (7) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (8) Specimen type, date of sampling, the sender's location and the reason for making the telephone enquiry were recorded.
  • (9) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
  • (10) However, shortly before this date, she says she was informed she would not receive the annual uprating.
  • (11) To date, a cognate action of E2 on the GnRH pulse generator has not been described.
  • (12) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (13) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
  • (14) This result is equivalent to the best adjuvant chemotherapy results reported to date.
  • (15) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
  • (16) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
  • (17) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
  • (18) To date television has not been used very much in teaching diagnostic radiology.
  • (19) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
  • (20) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.

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