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Adjective : an appointive office. ,appointive powers.    From Dictionary.com. 

Should the licensing authorities be appointive or elective?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

Incumbents holding appointive offices were in a state of dread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

Approximately 30 percent are appointive, or political positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Gearan Press Briefing] Reference

Protect his appointive power against congressional encroachments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: “Personnel is Policy:” It’s Time for Regime Change] Reference

The position made him head of police force with appointive powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

Give pause to the people who say you should have no appointive power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen C. Rose: Blago Should Still Appoint Diane Nash] Reference

LAMB: And during his lifetime how many appointive offices did he hold?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy] Reference

Imho appointive office is no substitute for experience as an elected CEO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Draft Condi.] Reference

I believe both, if I am not misinformed, are elective and not appointive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference

They may even have made promises or intimations of future appointive office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Edwards Thinks Hillary Has Courted Him More Effectively] Reference

Some Southern states returned to the appointive system during Reconstruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

One Post Chaplain. and such appointive officers as may be provided by the State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of The American Legion] Reference

DoJ could probably function indefinitely with no appointive slots filled at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Gonzales to Resign:] Reference

For one, those Washington officials are almost always leaving appointive office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Palin's Bailin'] Reference

This was one of the most important appointive offices in the State Administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference

These people clearly rule our world via their money, media, and appointive powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEET THE BILDERBERGERS - OUR INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT] Reference

Quotas for appointive offices are definately an easier sell to the American public.    From Wordnik.com.  [No One Is Going to Call on You « AAUW Dialog] Reference

I don't know about high elective office, but high appointive office could be there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg Busy Backing Candidates Of Both Parties] Reference

Do Hilden, Krupat, and their thirty endorsers believe these are appointive positions?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Passion Play': An Exchange] Reference

RFK, elected in 1964, had served only as U.S. attorney general, an appointive office.    From Wordnik.com.  [As American as Apple Pie] Reference

So I've always figured that high appointive position was out, but I've changed my mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courting trouble: It's confirmed -- Gene is a jerk] Reference

Men continue to hold a hugely disproportionate share of elective and appointive offices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primary Examples for Our Daughters] Reference

Quinn also served the Democratic National Committee in a number of appointive positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice President Names Jack Quinn As Chief Of Staff] Reference

This means that his office was appointive, and that he was a tithe - squeezer or tax-farmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

Texas, between 1866 and 1876, went from an elective to an appointive supreme court and back.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

It is also not a good idea to deny the president his ability to replace appointive officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Dem Leadership's Bill On Iraq Obtained] Reference