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How to use appointive in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word appointive? Here are some examples.

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He notes the steadily increasing ranks of African-American Republicans holding significant elective and appointive office.
In practical terms, an impeachment would mean he could not serve in any other federal elective or appointive office.
From a machine perspective, such jobs are far more useful than appointive positions in the executive branch.
He is not a journalist by training, and he's never held appointive or elective office.
After two early appointive terms in the U.S. Senate, he won election to the Senate in 1831, serving until 1842 and again from 1849 until his death.
Or is it like a choice appointive position, one with tons of patronage?
It's an appointive position based on faculty recommendation and grades.
He does not note that originally, 20 seats were to be appointive.
The president, who is elected by the members of the lower house, enjoys veto powers concerning legislation as well as a wide range of appointive powers.
Nigeria will further endeavour to ensure that at least 30 percent of all appointive public positions are assigned to women.
Thirty new members of an appointive advisory council aren't going to rescue the monarchy.
At first government posts are appointive, but an increasing elected element is introduced, as constitutions are altered, until elected officials are made wholly responsible for local affairs.
The term of a chairmanship of a standing committee represented on the Governing Board shall not exceed two years, whether it is an elected or appointive position.
A public official or employee found guilty of torture shall be permanently disqualified from holding any appointive or elective position in the government.
But the risk of a renegade board is no greater than it is for any appointive authority.
Finally, in 1701, a Charter of Privileges, giving the lower house all legislative power and transforming the council into an appointive body with advisory functions only, was approved by the citizens.
Furthermore, because of the appointive nature of most judgeships, judges have no direct responsibility to the persons they try, through recall or election.
Examples from Classical Literature
Even the men in the appointive offices did not venture to say he had much force.
This means that his office was appointive, and that he was a tithe-squeezer or tax-farmer.
By the provisions of the law even the jury lists could be controlled by appointive officers.
Women are thus barred from every elective and appointive office, even that of notary public.
They are also found as clerks, copyists and stenographers in the various elective and appointive State, city and county offices.
Never was appointive officer so oblivious of facts in his reports to his superior, as was Carrington.
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