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appoint

verb as in furnish

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Netanyahu appointed him in February to lead the Israeli negotiating team for Gaza talks.

He was not appointed by the government – but he says that both Hamas and the Fatah political movement, the dominant party in the Palestinian authority, respected him.

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Only 39 days after being appointed, the 60-year-old became the shortest serving permanent Premier League manager.

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The West Kowloon Cultural District is run by a statutory body whose members are appointed by the government.

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Wilcox has challenged her firing in court, arguing that appointed board members can only be fired for “malfeasance or neglect of duty.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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