Sentence examples for Power to confirm from inspiring English sources

Take, for instance, the Senate's power to confirm appointments.

WHAT government body has the power to confirm Ms. Yellen's nomination?

The Senate also has the power to confirm or reject presidentially appointed federal judges, ambassadors, and cabinet officials.

The bishop retained as his exclusive right the power to confirm church members, ordain priests, and consecrate other bishops.

The Executive Council, which has the power to confirm appointees and approve state contracts, switched from 4-1 Republican to 3-2 Democratic.

Most foreign-policy professionals consider Congress, at best, a necessary evil in foreign policy, but the founding fathers thought otherwise and gave the Senate power to confirm ambassadors and ratify treaties.

Considering that DVT is more common [14], a study including both conditions could be insufficiently powered to confirm efficacy for PE.

But Welsh government counsel general Theo Huckle QC defended the bill's lawfulness, pointing out that powers to confirm certain council bye-laws which were changed by the bill were "in practical terms, obsolete".

The Senate is an Exceptionally Powerful Upper House: The Senate shares full legislative, budgeting, and oversight authority with the House; it also has additional powers to confirm executive nominees and to ratify treaties.

One hundred twenty nine infants aged 6 11 months treated with DHA-PQP responded as well to treatment as older children, though the study was not powered to confirm non-inferiority between the two treatment groups.

The study was not powered to confirm any risk for seminoma and non-seminoma cases separately.