lifetime appointment

He was the first black person given a lifetime appointment on the Federal bench.

Slow work, but with a lifetime appointment, who cared about time?

"It would require more of an effort at consensus for lifetime appointments."

The Court originally had three judges, who were given lifetime appointments.

He does not have a lifetime appointment and a peerage.

What standards of scholarly achievement were used to support his lifetime appointment?

Unlike the case when we consider legislation, the Senate has no second chance in passing on lifetime appointments.

And they hold lifetime appointments, likely to last far beyond the term of the President who nominates them.

End the policy of making federal judges lifetime appointments.

Income was not the lure for many of the lawyers who accepted a lifetime appointment as judge.

Lifetime appointments to the federal bench should not be granted without due consideration.

He would serve an initial seven-year term before being considered for a lifetime appointment.

What punishment is that - to achieve such an immensely important lifetime appointment?

As a reward for years of such scrutiny, the best should be given tenure, in effect a lifetime appointment.

"He was a grown man with a lifetime appointment.

A year ago, he got a lifetime appointment.

Ours is a lifetime appointment, and all you have is your reputation.

He retired from his lifetime appointment in 1922.

"But a lifetime appointment is different," he continued.

But there can be no such presumption for lifetime appointments to the coordinate judicial branch.

A position in corporate America today is not (and for the sake of our future economic growth, should not be) a lifetime appointment.

O'Connor said it was her plan to follow the tradition of previous justices, who enjoy lifetime appointments.

Until the end of the 12th century, this office was only granted for a limited number of years; later it became a lifetime appointment.

Throughout the Middle Ages a seat on the town council was normally a lifetime appointment.

Among other things, the proposal would limit the tenure of the police chief, who under the current city charter has a virtual lifetime appointment.