1.   In the Low Country the link between social status and government appointments was less rigid, but nevertheless important.

2.   There are numerous recent cases of character assassination and reputation assault that would discourage any sane person from accepting high government appointment.

3.   According to the proposals, the new presidency would have the final say on a range of important decisions relating to economic policy and government appointments.

4.   Both senatorial wives are accomplished executives who parlayed responsible government appointments into lucrative private positions.

5.   But after his government appointment, he never came close to being a Kremlin insider.

6.   But even the least informed Algerian will tell you that no significant policy move or key military or government appointment can go through without his nod.

7.   In office, however, donors asking the president for government appointments got them, precisely the kind of action the Arkansas governor vowed to end.

8.   The new government appointments tell us a great deal about how the new Russia actually functions.

9.   The other half of the council serves by government appointment.

10.   Yet as the years passed, the future prime minister moved casually, even reluctantly, up the ladder of government appointments.