He was the first Filipino to hold a sensitive post, being a commissioner with portfolio.

He soon switched to a less sensitive post at the agency, the first of several.

"The country suffers when everybody appoints his relatives in the most sensitive posts," he noted.

Before coming to the United Nations he had already showed himself to be an effective diplomat in a number of sensitive posts around the world.

She has instructed officials to come up with a list of chargesheeted employees so that they are not posted on sensitive posts.

Although the position was eliminated after a few months, when the Berlin wall fell, this was one of the most sensitive posts in the agency.

It is not raw numbers that are at stake, but the more ideologically sensitive posts on the appeals courts.

None the less, the holder of one of the most sensitive posts in government has demonstrated appalling judgment.

"It's really to just move him out of this highly sensitive post while this investigation is going on," she said.

When they appoint their friends' relatives to sensitive posts, that's partisan politics.