Not long ago, Ms. Rumble missed a crucial appointment.

One crucial appointment will be to fill a new position of chief compliance officer, which the university agreed to create as part of its agreement with prosecutors.

He controls access to the pope's private apartment, and is thought to have had a say in crucial appointments.

The crucial appointment had not, to his knowledge, been decided yet and was still in the forefront of his thoughts.

It is possible that such authoritarian actions will occur again as soon as another crucial appointment to the hierarchy comes up.

Mr. Baker and his aides are said to have been slow in making crucial appointments.

He was not far from controversy, and was accused of favouring his own supporters for crucial appointments within the party.

Who will make crucial cabinet, ambassadorial and lifetime judicial appointments?

In the days just before his first inauguration, in 2001, George Bush gave a brief insight into what he looks for in crucial appointments.

He, too, has missed crucial appointments, including a dinner at Lutece with potential clients.