Sentence examples for a role in nominating from inspiring English sources

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 (AP) — An investment group affiliated with labor unions has called on Countrywide Financial, the struggling mortgage lender, to let shareholders play a role in nominating a successor to Henry G. Cisneros on the company's board.

California has not had a decisive role in nominating a presidential candidate of either party since 1972, when George McGovern won the Democratic primary here but faced a convention challenge from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who tried to claim a share of the state's 271 delegates.

Shareholders should play an active role in nominating strong, no-nonsense additions to its non-executives.

Those voters are likely to play a more important role in nominating a candidate in the next presidential election because several states with large Hispanic populations, including New Jersey, have moved their primaries or caucuses to early 2008.

Her comments suggested that she intended to play a role in the Republican nominating contest — and the general election — regardless of whether she is a candidate.

Little did I know that this would eventually include a role in an Oscar-nominated film.

MPs will have a role in filtering the candidates by nominating the candidates for the contest.

The unions will have no role in nominating candidates for leader - that privilege will remain solely with MPs.

Just this week, Florida voted to move its primary up to Jan . 29in an effort to ensure that it would play a vital role in the nominating process and that the candidates would pay attention to the issues its residents deem important.

Several advisers, friends and donors said in interviews that they had urged her to call her vote a mistake in order to appease antiwar Democrats, who play a critical role in the nominating process.

Issues have hardly played a dominant role in the nominating races, especially on the Democratic side.