These exams provided merit-based means of selecting military officials.

It was said that people praised him for fairness during the three terms that he served in being responsible for selecting officials.

'Why couldn't people select their own mayor and other local officials?', students asked angrily.

To curb hiring abuses, they would allow local boards to select the superintendent and a financial officer, but not lesser officials.

The public has a right to select public officials who will be answerable to the electorate alone.

However, performance appraisals will be referred to selecting officials for consideration in the final selection process.

Overall, he was responsible for selecting officials for five years.

These proprietors then selected the governors and other officials in the colony.

On March 7, 1826, citizens assembled for their first annual meeting to select the town supervisor and other officials.

Until now, the process of selecting senior officials of the U.N. system has been haphazard at best.