• For starters, the pressures on prosecutors to be overly aggressive are public pressures, vox populi filtered through elected and appointed officials.

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  • Along with prosecuting antiterror cases, the U.S. attorney's office under Mr. Christie secured more than 130 convictions of elected and appointed public officials.

    WSJ: Book Review: Chris Christie

  • On Friday, the President will travel to Orlando, Florida, to deliver remarks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • With both elected and appointed governments in Italy, Spain and France charged with a strict goal of deficit reduction, support for solar and wind projects has become an easy target for spending cuts.

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  • Both Obama and Romney are scheduled to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials annual conference later this week in Florida, a key general election battleground state with a large Hispanic population.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • For those few fields unfortunate enough to have the attention of elected and appointed officials (who care about it because at least some of the public care), there is no doubt that Politics plays a role.

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  • If you follow coverage of their speeches at three Latino events -- the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, the League of United Latin American Citizens and The National Council of La Raza -- the answer would be yes.

    CNN: Analysis: What's wrong with pandering to Latino voters?

  • While 24 Latinos are in the House of Representatives now, that number is likely to be higher as a result of this year's election, in which 49 Latinos were seeking House seats, according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

    WSJ: Tough Loss Leaves GOP at a Crossroads

  • On Oct. 1, delegates to the MPR, which comprises elected MPs and appointed provincial and sectoral representatives, are to be sworn in.

    CNN: Walking on a Tightrope

  • The coalition has suggested cutting the number of peers to 300, from more than 800, with 240 members elected and 60 appointed.

    BBC: Lord Lipsey: Elected House of Lords could cost ?484m

  • Our elected and senior appointed officials, the mainstream media and every progressive in good standing, attach a kind of presumption of nobility to government.

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  • Power is exercised by an elected legislative council and an appointed executive council.

    BBC: Turks and Caicos profile

  • The royal commission examining the future of the Lords is bound to concentrate on the higher-profile questions of what powers the second legislative chamber should have, and whether its members should be elected or appointed.

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  • He was elected professor of poetry at Oxford in 1951 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968.

    BBC: Cecil Day-Lewis

  • The MSP was elected to the SNP's national executive, and was appointed the party's spokeswoman for health, education and later for justice.

    BBC: Profile: Nicola Sturgeon

  • Six members are elected by the country's two oldest universities and 11 are appointed by the prime minister.

    ECONOMIST: The House of Lords

  • Other concerns are about the potential loss of local regulation with locally elected representatives of the local councils and others who've been appointed on fishery committee's because of their experience and knowledge.

    BBC: Sea change for managing fisheries

  • The mayor is elected, and seems to be popular, but the prefect is appointed by the central government, and is seen, no doubt unfairly, as personally responsible for any bureaucratic bungling that may have held things up.

    ECONOMIST: The great Fenice mystery

  • But at its meeting on Monday, the Assembly voted to allow ministers who were already ordained at the same time as Mr Rennie was elected in Aberdeen, and already known to be gay, to be appointed to new jobs despite their homosexuality.

    BBC: Mood shift points to gay clergy for the Kirk

  • Grillo and his fast-growing movement are bitterly opposed to the incumbent, who in late 2011 appointed Monti and a Cabinet of technocrats to replace an elected premier as the eurozone debt crisis threatened to engulf Italy.

    NPR: Napolitano Re-Elected Italy's President

  • Some have argued that the standard for him should be lower because he is elected by the people, while federal judges are appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve for life.

    CNN: Sen. Allard's closed-door impeachment statement

  • In early 2012 he was appointed president of the National Assembly and was then re-elected in January 2013.

    BBC: Diosdado Cabello on 12 December 2012

  • These women will be role models for the younger generation and maybe in the future we'll have women who are elected, not just appointed.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Stephen Doughty, who was elected MP for Cardiff South and Penarth in a by-election last November, has been appointed (unpaid) parliamentary private secretary to shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves.

    BBC: The MP who really does love to be by the seaside

  • Mr Clegg duly unveiled a plan on May 17th that calls for a chamber of 300 representatives (less than half the current size), with 80% elected for 15-year terms under a proportional voting system, and the remaining 20% appointed.

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  • There seem to be a number of people who will not allow the change to the committee membership without, at least, a debate - and they would use it to argue that the chair should be elected, rather than appointed.

    BBC: Improving attitudes to mental health

  • Until recently, the cabinet was composed entirely of the king's nominees, and only nine popularly elected representatives sat in the 30-member legislative assembly, alongside nine noble representatives and 12 members appointed by the king.

    ECONOMIST: And of their contrasting attitudes to democratic reform

  • State insurance regulators should be appointed rather than elected so they are less prone to being influenced by special interest groups and lobbyists.

    FORBES: Improving Insurance Decision Making

  • And he cannot count on much support from the president who appointed him: re-elected last year, Leonid Kuchma was all but instructed by the West to choose Mr Yushchenko as prime minister.

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  • And there are some high-powered issues to chew over - the balance of power between the Commons and the new Senate (or whatever it is to be called), the proportion to be elected or appointed, the presence of the Church of England bishops (excluding them would come close to disestablishment of the state church, so antidisestablishmentarianism may become a factor) and much, much more.

    BBC: Lords reform looks set to snarl up the Commons

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