His appointment, which had been expected, raised questions on two fronts.

Omran's appointment raised hopes that Syrian media would be given more liberty.

His appointment, on July 12, at first raised hopes that regulators might finally overhaul the struggling banking industry.

A: My appointment is a mission to raise the museum's profile, to get it on the national as well as international circuit.

Still, the appointment of a man with no experience in the complex and intensely competitive computer market raised some eyebrows.

His unlikely appointment raised hopes on the left here of a more generous, less aggressive approach toward the Palestinians.

The appointment raised some controversy, because of the twenty year old US drug conviction.

The new appointments will raise the number of Salomon's managing directors to 164.

Her appointment also raised the issue of rankings within the profession.

Some executives say these appointments will raise the status of creative people inside an agency that in recent years has not considered them full partners.