1.   Babbitt acknowledged that federal science agencies were sometimes biased toward the attitudes of politically appointed regulators who supervised them.

2.   For more than a decade, distrust has festered against the politically appointed board, a group charged with setting policy for the university.

3.   He said Congress has traditionally been eager to finance drug enforcement efforts but less enthusiastic about creating new judgeships because they are powerful, politically appointed positions.

4.   In the new Congress, those proportions will be reversed, and the politically appointed departments of the clerk, the sergeant-at-arms and the doorkeeper will change hands.

5.   The chief knows his local citizens better than any politically appointed board.

6.   Thomas Kornegay, executive director of the Port of Houston, said he was hired by a politically appointed commission but came up through the ranks.

7.   While the ministry advises the central bank on interest rate policy, the politically appointed minister wields less influence than career bureaucrats under him.

8.   Although politically appointed Tzoganis has little room for diplomatic maneuvering, Karadayi heads a military that often exerts a shadow leadership over the government.

9.   Alvarez was fired from his politically appointed job at the Energy Department after their arrest.

10.   Government secretaries are the top officials in ministries after politically appointed ministers.