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manner and appointment
From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.
He had an easy-going manner and little interest in politics ; his appointment as Lord High Admiral in 1702 was largely honorary.
Its fifteen sections establish certain civil service offices, specify their functions and jurisdictions, set out the qualifications and preconditions required of persons holding such offices, and prescribes the manner of their appointment.
Section 164 specifies the manner of the Ombudsman's appointment, and the limitations of the office.
Kopu gradually came under increasing criticism, having been unemployed for nearly two decades prior to her lucrative appointment as an MP and the ' backdoor ' manner in which she was seen as having attained that position.
However, no specific provision is made as to the appointment of the Chief Justice ; as a result, the latter is appointed in the same manner as for the other judges to the Supreme Court.
Brent replied accepting the appointment that same day: " Altho I feel great diffidence in the talents I possess for executing that duty, in a manner which may afford general satisfaction, yet feeling it a duty to contribute my feeble aid for the public service, I will venture upon its duties.
According to biographers Niedermeyer and Lopes da Silva, the appointment occurred in an unceremonious manner as his relationship with the Nazi regime was particularly strained.
A vacancy is filled in the same manner as the original appointment and must be filled with a person from the same party as the former member.
Suspicions were voiced regarding the manner of Bishop Hilarion's appointment and the manner of his leadership following his appointment.
* the manner of Bishop Hilarion's appointment as the Bishop of Kerch was " hurtful and tactless " to the diocese, adding " insult to injury " since the Patriarchate did not notify the diocese beforehand ;
Damon Wise of Empire feared that Winkleman's appointment represented a rejection of film knowledge as a requirement for a host of the show, and that it might forestall the demise of the series in the same manner as Top of the Pops, as " another flagship BBC show that was allowed to slide out of existence ".
Thus, the shaping of the judicial body, through the manner of judicial appointment, is carried out by all the authorities together.
This was issued in a similar manner to an acting appointment for a lower grade officer to perform the duties of a higher grade officer, except that their pay, rank and uniform remained at the lower grade.
Martin's " manner of treating with the Indians necessarily prevented his appointment ," Senator Richard Henry Lee informed Patrick Henry in September 1789.
The manner of appointment, the qualifications and the format of reporting by an external auditor is defined by statute which varies according to jurisdiction of different countries.
: The rules and manner of operation of the National Broadcasting Council, its organization, and specific rules for appointment of its members shall be determined by statute.
They are governed by the basic unit of the United Methodist Church, the annual conference ; ordained ministers are appointed by their annual conference to serve Wesley Foundations as campus minister in a similar manner to their usual appointment to a church or charge.

manner and was
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.
I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.
The door was answered by a slender man in his sixties -- straight-backed, somewhat clerical in manner, wearing rimless glasses.
He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner.
Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.
This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.
This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.
For exactly one week, she was able to continue in this manner.
He was dressed in a manner Esquire might suggest for the outdoor man's country weekend.
The whole thing, his manner conveyed, was so far outside the normal routine of Hohlbein and Garth that it practically demanded being swept under the rug.
The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.
Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.
She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.
Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.
Another weakness -- far more irritating than his manner of speaking, which he made only token effort to change -- was his devotion to that old horse of Tolley's.
Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

manner and controversial
It had required the holders of broadcast licenses to " present controversial issues of public importance " and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, " honest, equitable and balanced ".
Biosecurity protocol refers to several politically controversial attempts to unify global biosecurity measures and responses, in a similar manner to a biosafety protocol.
Although some modern commentators claim that Montanus was rejected because he claimed to be a prophet, a careful examination of history shows that the gift of prophecy was still acknowledged during the time of Montanus, and that he was controversial because of the manner in which he prophesied and the doctrines he propagated.
My Sweet Charlie ( 1970 ) with Patty Duke and Al Freeman, Jr. dealt with racial prejudice, and That Certain Summer ( 1972 ), starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen, although controversial, was considered the first TV movie to approach the subject of homosexuality in a non-threatening manner.
This concluded a slow heel turn for Flair that started when he defeated Ricky Steamboat in a controversial manner some months earlier.
Sometimes controversial, the speakers linked the undergraduates in a direct and personal manner to the wider world beyond Princeton.
Some consider the educational movement to be controversial with some trained the traditional manner looking down upon these programs and their potential to change the tradition.
In the 1950s, properties in the First Chinatown were bought-out or expropriated in a controversial manner by the city for the construction of Nathan Phillips Square.
Following this acclaimed design Lasdun designed two buildings for the University of London, one for SOAS ( 1970 ) and another for the Institute of Education ( 1970 – 1976 ), which was particularly controversial in its insertion into the previous street plan of squares and terraces, which it tried to replicate in a more Brutalist manner.
Similar to the controversial reappropriation of the word nigger, the word chink has been used occasionally in a positive manner by ethnic Chinese.
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced.
This, combined with Mäkinen's controversial manner of management – the emphasis being place on non-physical play – led to the club facing an uncertain and turbulent future.
Spencer would again fail at the 1975 World Championship, in a somewhat controversial manner.
The exact manner in which the secreted acid reaches the stomach lumen is controversial, as acid must first cross the relatively pH neutral gastric mucus layer.
Scraping is controversial since it distributes the content in a manner that was not chosen by the authors.
A controversial figure among cricketers, Jardine was well known for his dislike of Australian players and crowds and was unpopular in Australia, particularly for his manner and especially after the Bodyline tour.
Meyerhold continued theatrical innovation during the decade 1907-1917, while working with the imperial theatres in St. Petersburg, introducing classical plays in an innovative manner, and staging works of controversial contemporary authors like Fyodor Sologub, Zinaida Gippius, and Alexander Blok.
But with 3 matches to play, Taylor was replaced in a controversial manner by Howard Wilkinson, who won the next two matches.
In 1938 he took over as the head of the Department of chemical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university, in a somewhat controversial manner, when his predecessor Mario Giacomo Levi was forced to step down because of racial laws against Jews being introduced in Fascist Italy.
In responses to The Night Porter, Cavani was both celebrated for her courage in dealing with the theme of sexual transgression and, simultaneously, castigated for the controversial manner in which she presented that transgression: within the context of a Nazi Holocaust narrative.
His thoughts and opinions are less controversial and are expressed in a much more respectful manner than Fillion's.
However, in the space of just a few years, this society all but disappeared because they became fragmented in their primary purpose, becoming involved with all manner of controversial social reforms including prohibition, sectarian religion, politics and abolition of slavery.
Judging from his controversial manner, impresses at least one reader as a Me-for-Dictator type to whom it would be dangerous to entrust the task of drawing any boundary between the domain of freedom and that of necessity or order.
In this book, he refers to her as " Gillian McKeith ( or, to give her full medical title: Gillian McKeith )"-by implication referring to the controversial manner in which she attained her Doctor of Philosophy degree.

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