Sentences with word «appointive»

They called on the government to redress the «systematic discrimination» against the Yoruba nationality in federal appointive positions without delay, saying that the Yoruba have been getting «crumbs» from the administration.

After an extended debate Thursday, Erie County legislators voted to send a proposed ban on people convicted of some crimes from holding elective or appointive offices in county government back to committee.

Curran and Martins also have pledged not to lay off county employees, although both said they would consider eliminating some nonunion appointive positions.

Some of the duties of Committee members include raising funds and assisting Democratic candidates, nominating candidates for special elections to fill vacancies, recommending candidates for state and local appointive positions, and providing assistance to Democratic officeholders, clubs and voters in Ulster County.

I therefore, urge you to use this forum to discuss and find ways of complementing the Commission's efforts in improving women's political representation in elective and appointive positions of authority and leadership in Nigeria.»

Under an appointive system a minister's first congregation has probably been the victim of a rapid succession of inexperienced clergy who never stayed long enough to share the benefits of the experience won at the congregation's expense.

In denominations with an appointive system, the weight of this early period tilts too easily in favor of institutional needs and away from calling needs.

Beginning at the 1979 Houston convention, they elected a series of theologically conservative presidents that, in turn, used their appointive powers to achieve a conservative majority on the Board of Trustees of each of its entities — including the six seminaries, the two mission boards, and the BSSB.

The office was created as an appointive office in 1801.

Elsewhere across the nation, Georgians rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have transformed the office of state school superintendent from an elective to an appointive post.

An appointive system is superior in several ways.

The Brennan Center notes in its report that inadequate diversity is an issue in both appointive and elective systems.