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Told about Braden's new self-appointment as senior VP of all things unwritten and holy, he replied: "He just told me to get off his mound," Rodriguez said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2010

Colonel Wood briefly reviewed the self-appointment of the temporary committee during the previous month and outlined the purposes of the caucus.

From The Story of The American Legion by Wheat, George Seay

It is their self-appointment I wish to correct; to find some means of breaking up a cabal, when such a one gets possession of the bench.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson