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Meng’s abduction was particularly shocking, because many Chinese trumpeted his 2016
appointment
to Interpol’s highest post – which made him the first Chinese citizen to lead a major global institution – as a sign that the country had finally arrived at the top tier of the international order.
According to the Turkish authorities, two teams, totaling 15 people, flew from Riyadh to Istanbul on the day of Khashoggi’s
appointment
and left within hours.
When Putin made the most important
appointment
of his life – the choice of his successor – one can be sure that his calculations were thorough.
Europe’s Juncker RevolutionMADRID – Before his
appointment
as EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker was pilloried as an old-school federalist who would do little to alter the status quo.
Up to now, a focus on who has been appointed to what post – in particular, the
appointment
of the relatively inexperienced Federica Mogherini as EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy – has overshadowed the Commission’s structural transformation.
One of the biggest rounds of applause came when he said that President Barack Obama’s
appointment
of Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State after she had been his principal political rival proved that “democracy does not have to be a blood sport.”
The Kouchner ConversionFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy’s
appointment
of Bernard Kouchner as France’s foreign minister was a brilliant political stroke.
Indeed, Kouchner’s
appointment
is likely to demonstrate just how vain a hope humanitarian intervention always was.
In the
appointment
of independent judges, great care must be given to insure that the judiciary helps revitalize social trust in the capacity for transformation to democracy.
Indeed, Zoellick’s own
appointment
was widely regarded as “illegitimate” from that perspective.
Similarly, he would like to impose a two-term limit on the president, and to require parliamentary approval of the president’s
appointment
of certain senior officials.
Yes, they have implemented a plethora of detailed controls, scrutinizing banks’ books with unprecedented intensity and insisting on approving cash distributions, the
appointment
of key directors, and even job descriptions for board members.
Most notorious was the
appointment
of Paul Wolfowitz, one of the main architects of the Iraq War, to lead the World Bank.
This enabled Lomborg to appeal the verdict, successfully, claiming that the Committee had victimized him for political reasons, given his recent
appointment
as director of a major national institute for environmental research.
If the Dalai Lama issued clear guidelines about his own reincarnation, Tibetans would be even less likely to accept China’s
appointment.
And Glimcher himself now holds an
appointment
at New York University’s economics department (he also works at NYU’s Center for Neural Science).
In France, by contrast, the
appointment
of the black anchorwoman Audrey Pulvar was big news on its own, because most of her colleagues in France are white.
Wim Duisenberg's
appointment
as first ECB president in May 1998 was mired in political controversy.
Coming on top of US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, his
appointment
threatens progress toward a low-carbon economy.
China UnboundSydney – The
appointment
of five provincial-level Chinese Communist Party chiefs in early December is a reminder that the ascension of China’s next generation of leaders, who will take power in 2012, may be the most significant development in Chinese politics since Deng Xiaoping’s reign begin in 1978.
The
appointment
in March 2012 of the first-ever UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment was a positive step.
Even if interest in Trump’s latest indiscretion fades, his relationship – and the relationships of his associates – with Russia remains a subject of much interest, underscored by the
appointment
of a special counsel to investigate those links.
The recent Senate hearings to confirm Chuck Hagel’s
appointment
as Secretary of Defense, which involved aggressive questioning about the former senator’s commitment to Israel, reflected that criticism.
Despite his impeccable track record as the governor of Canada’s central bank, Carney’s
appointment
was controversial: he has always been perceived as too close to the previous chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, and insufficiently sympathetic to Brexiteers.
One seemingly obscure political move last month – the
appointment
of Jang Sung-taek (Kim Kyong-hui’s husband) as the chairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission – suggests that Kim Kyong-hui’s ill health is already having an impact on the regime.
Then, in late May, President Sergio Mattarella caused an uproar by blocking the
appointment
of the Euroskeptic economist Paolo Savona as the country’s new minister of economy and finance, suggesting that the single currency may yet be a central issue in the future.
In order to align political and economic reform, the Party tried to replace the opaque
appointment
process for selecting high-ranking cadres with contested internal ballots.
If the European Parliament serves as a quasi-electoral college that determines the presidential appointment, voters might care more about Europe – and support further integration.
Are judges selected by political
appointment?
An Epidemic of PoliticsAmericans, like citizens in countries throughout the world, have come to accept that politics plays an important role in the
appointment
of certain kinds of public officials.
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