Appointment
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This is particularly true for the
appointment
of an ambassador to a country that is critical to Asia’s balance of power.
Accountability entails a proper legal basis, clear objectives, well defined relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, clear procedures for
appointment
and dismissal of chief executives, override mechanisms, budgetary accountability rules, and rules supporting transparency.
Bolton’s
appointment
was enough to set much of Washington trembling with fear that he would reinforce Trump’s most pugnacious views, for example, that the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement should be scrapped.
At week’s end, a memoir by former FBI director James Comey, whose firing by Trump led to Mueller’s appointment, began to leak, also arousing Trump’s ire.
The
appointment
of special counsel Robert Mueller by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (who had his own reputation to rescue) won’t do much for President Donald Trump’s mood.
Following the
appointment
of French officers to a number of key NATO posts, France can, along with the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and a few other NATO allies, begin to implement much-needed reforms.
The real winner from the recent
appointment
of the conservative-dominated, seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is the PLA, whose rising clout has underpinned China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy.
Furthermore, the advent of a bipartisan government coalition in Germany, together with the
appointment
of a new European administration following the European Parliament election in May, creates a window for new thinking.
Indeed, a big part of Wolfowitz’s weakness today is the way he came to his job, as an in-your-face
appointment
from a US administration weak at international cooperation.
While the outrage that followed the
appointment
of another European as IMF Managing Director in 2011 is likely to ensure that the Fund’s next head will not hail from Europe, the IMF’s fast-diminishing role means that it will not matter much.
First and foremost, his
appointment
extends the embarrassingly outmoded practice of always installing an American in the job.
First, there was the controversial
appointment
of the Spaniard Jose Manuel Gonzales-Paramo to replace his countryman Domingo Solans on the Executive Board in May 2004.
These types of spectacles used to be reserved for the nomination of Supreme Court justices – a lifetime
appointment
to a nine-member body that can overturn laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.
In the past, a nomination was officially announced before the nominee moved on to the next phase and met with senators to discuss the
appointment.
A new issue for Clinton arose in August, when the Associated Press reported that numerous donors to the Clinton Foundation had received special treatment by the State Department during Clinton’s tenure there, mainly by winning an
appointment
with her.
But many of these people would have received an
appointment
anyway; and there is no evidence that State Department policies were changed as a result.
The
appointment
of the pliable general Raheel Sharif as army chief has helped defuse the situation; but, with Pakistan and India backing opposing sides in Afghanistan, the military and the ISI could reassert themselves should tensions there rise.
Prior to his appointment, Bannon was the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a far-right, hyper-nationalist – indeed white supremacist – online publication.
Bannon’s
appointment
caused mainstream Republican jaws to drop.
Trump’s
appointment
of Bannon, in particular, suggests that he is desperate, scared, and lost.
The US Senate’s eventual refusal to confirm the recess
appointment
limited the damage that Bolton might have done.
Over the next two decades, the state increasingly impeded Harvard’s functioning by, for example, refusing to release funds and obstructing the
appointment
of professors.
This behavior culminated in 1862, when the legislature blocked a university president’s
appointment.
What matters now is control over administrative power, and the
appointment
of presidential prefects throughout Russia gives the Kremlin a powerful hand in directing state administration.
Savona had openly advocated preparing a “plan B” for an exit from the single currency, and Mattarella argued that his
appointment
could have led to precisely that outcome.
But this is the first time that the euro has been the direct source of a legal dispute over the
appointment
of a government.
As Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte and the party leaders behind him refused to propose any other candidate for the post, the president concluded that his constitutional duty was to refuse to endorse the
appointment.
There is no time to waste: the year 2019 is already shaping up to be a complicated one, as it will include European elections, the
appointment
of a new European Commission, and the deadline for a Brexit agreement.
He has also called for the
appointment
of a eurozone finance minister, and for measures to harmonize corporate taxes and minimum wages across member states.
One can’t get a manicure in Amsterdam without booking an
appointment
two weeks in advance, but men can buy sex anytime – and at an attractive price.
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