Sentence examples for against confirmation from inspiring English sources

He and other liberal senators voted against confirmation.

In the end, though, Mrs. Clinton spoke out against the nomination and voted against confirmation.

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, said he was leaning against confirmation.

We urge a unified Democratic vote in the Senate against confirmation.

The stiffest blow came on Thursday, when the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on the nomination, with all nine Democrats voting against confirmation and nine Republicans in favor.

Photo: Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, spoke on the Senate floor yesterday against confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court.

For instance, the biggest individual financier of the so-called super PACs that sought to defeat Mr. Obama, Sheldon Adelson, is so invested in the fight over Mr. Hagel that he has reached out directly to Republican Senators to urge them to hold the line against his confirmation, which would be almost impossible to stop against six Republican "yes" votes and a unified Democratic caucus.

He regularly criticizes Ms. Carnahan for voting against the confirmation of Attorney General John Ashcroft -- the man Governor Carnahan was running against in 2000.

All four voted against her confirmation then.

Thurmond and Denton went on to vote for Sessions but the committee split 10-8 againsthehe confirmation.

Some said that based on his testimony they would vote against his confirmation, including Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida.