"black" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As a banker, Johnson appointed both blacks and women to the board of directors of his company.
- Mr. Quayle said the leadership conference "can rest assured we will not be deterred" in reaching out to appoint blacks to the Administration.
- In his later terms as governor (the last of which ended in 1987), he began appointing blacks to government jobs and extending social services in black communities.
- Mr. Daley has appointed blacks in key positions, steered multimillion-dollar developments to black neighborhoods and cleaned up dilapidated sections that had long been neglected.
- Mr. Silver appointed blacks to 8 of the 18 Democratic leadership titles, up from 7 in the last session; 6 of the 8 received promotions.
- He appointed blacks to high positions, stressed his commitment to provide services to all neighborhoods, tore down public housing projects, and pushed reform of the minority-dominated public schools.
- Maryland governors had been slow to appoint blacks to the bench, even though the city was majority African American.
- Mr. Edwards's strongest support has historically come from black Louisianians, many of whom consider him the first governor to address their concerns and to appoint blacks to significant jobs.
- An outspoken supporter of civil rights, Edwards was the first Louisiana governor since Reconstruction to appoint blacks and women to high positions in his administration.
- He disappointed blacks by supporting the Taft administration's policy of not appointing blacks to patronage positions in the states where they resided.
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