How to Use at the pleasure of (someone) in a Sentence

at the pleasure of (someone)

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• The chairman serves at the pleasure of the president for a four-year term.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• Dackin served as an at-will employee at the pleasure of the state school board.
  — cleveland, 3 June 2022
• That person would serve at the pleasure of the governor.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• But he is employed at the pleasure of Berry and Stefanski.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• The real power rests with the city manager — although that person serves at the pleasure of the 15-member council.
  — Dallas News, 17 June 2022
• Artists once again serve at the pleasure of officialdom, whose purview—like the surveillance state itself—grows more total by the day.
  — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Presidents normally serve at the pleasure of the board and may be replaced at any time and without cause in an open and properly noticed board meeting.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
• The chief inspector general is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the governor, according to state law.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• The commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and report to the secretary of the department of education.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2023
• The 2018 charter amendment gave the advisory board oversight of the inspector general who had previously served at the pleasure of the mayor.
  — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Reid serves at the pleasure of the board, which is composed of three commissioners representing Prince George’s and three representing Montgomery County.
  — Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• The same is true for appointments to jobs that are subject to Senate confirmation, from the attorney general on down to even the local U.S. attorneys in each district, each of whom serves at the pleasure of the president.
  — Michael B. Mukasey, National Review, 9 May 2023
• Under current city law, the Assembly selects the municipal clerk, a nonpartisan position serving at the pleasure of the Assembly.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
• Previously, the elections director position reported to Lew, who serves at the pleasure of the board and essentially acts as the county's chief executive officer.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
• Azerbaijan’s religious leader, despite effectively serving at the pleasure of the president, has more power than global institutions like the European Parliament to stop cultural erasure in Nagorno-Karabakh.
  — Simon Maghakyan, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024