The president has the power to check bureaucratic drift through executive orders and by choosing appointees for the highest post of bureaucracies.

Bishop Carroll had been chosen for the post by a vote of American priests earlier that year.

Itanhaém was chosen for the post because he was considered submissive and easily manipulated.

To discourage witchcraft, rowan wood may have been chosen for the post or mantel.

As an eight-term member of Congress, he is the first politician since George Bush, in 1976, to be chosen for the post.

Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius was eventually chosen for the post.

She had been chosen for the post of First Citizen ten years ago, when she was barely twenty-six.

The man chosen for the post last Tuesday does not need a map.

Machado's election, at the age of 77, came as a surprise to some observers, who had been expecting someone younger to be chosen for the post.

I shouldn't have chosen him for the most dangerous post in the army.