21.   The European Central Bank represents a new degree of independence since no one government appoints all its members.

22.   The federal government appointed a mediating commission to consider pulling back fences, restoring mangroves and building a fishing port and a new road.

23.   The French government appointed Jean-Paul Bechat chief executive officer of state-owned jet engine maker Snecma a week after firing Bernard Dufour.

24.   The government appointed a mediator yesterday to work with striking railway unions.

25.   The government has appointed a mediator to break the stalemate.

26.   The scandal erupted in January after Netanyahu and his government appointed Roni Bar-On, a little-known criminal lawyer, as attorney general.

27.   The Sixth Amendment of the Constitution says everyone has a right to counsel, which is why the government appoints lawyers for those who cannot afford them.

28.   The US government appoints an independent arbiter to decide such cases.

29.   Then, earlier this year, the Swiss government appointed an ombudsman to look into the claims of Holocaust survivors regarding the dormant accounts.

30.   Whatever the case, the president has maintained Soviet-era controls on religion, in which the government appoints virtually all Islamic leaders.