The phrase "about to nominate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of making a nomination or selection, often in a formal context.
Example: "The committee is about to nominate the candidate for the prestigious award."
Alternatives: "ready to nominate" or "preparing to nominate".
In 1967, when The Washington Post reported that he was about to nominate Fred M. Vinson Jr. to a federal appeals court, President Johnson angrily canceled the nomination.
She may be the most qualified candidate for the job in history, and Mr Obama is not about to nominate a hawk.
And I believe the nation should be deeply worried about what sort of person the GOP is about to nominate for president.
"If the Democratic Party was going to honestly acknowledge how it came to the point in its history that it was about to nominate a black American for President, no speech would not mention Lyndon Johnson".
But Mr Bush is about to nominate a phalanx of 40 or so jurists to vacancies in lower federal courts as his first salvo in what will be a long war to reclaim the courts for judicial conservatism.
But the Democrats are about to nominate a woman or an African-American, and I doubt that either one of those candidacies will fly without an extraordinary amount of party unity behind it.
As recently as last week, Defense Department officials believed that President Trump was about to formally nominate Mr. Shanahan for the job left vacant by Jim Mattis, who resigned in December.
Less clear is the political impact of the meetings on the president's decision about whom to nominate to replace Mrs. Clinton.
Guardian Australia has also seen emails from Stephen to the immigration department in 2013 where he cites her visa application date and reference number, and asks for details about how to nominate to sponsor her as a host employer.
Three weeks before their primary, Maryland Democrats remain largely undecided about whom to nominate for governor, according to a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a race overshadowed by record popularity for Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.
Rudd told Drew Clarke the prime minister need not hurry to a final decision about whether to nominate him for the post the former Labor prime minister has been aspiring to much of his professional life.
