Sentence examples for appoint a nominee from inspiring English sources

But the most stunning charge is that Mr Blagojevich, who can appoint a nominee to hold Mr Obama's seat in the Senate until the scheduled election is held in 2010, wanted to sell the seat to the highest bidder.

The president's power to appoint a nominee during a congressional recess, bypassing the senate, should be used relatively rarely... but the fact that the Democrats made the Bolton nomination controversial on their side of the aisle does not render the appointment either unconstitutional, or, as Senator Ted Kennedy described it, 'an abuse of power'..

Two of the more than 400 executive branch positions Trump has yet to appoint a nominee for, the top GSA roles are responsible for making the federal government's real estate decisions.

"I'd like to address the president's promise to appoint a nominee blessed by the NRA," she said.

In some jurisdictions that require shareholder identities to be reported, a loophole is created where the beneficial owner may appoint a nominee to be the shareholder, and that nominee cannot legally be compelled to reveal the identity of the beneficial owner.

"I actually voted for the Dodd-Frank bill, but I am completely opposed to appointing a nominee to head this bureau until we correct the very serious structural flaws that are in the bill," Ms. Collins said.

He has suggested that "Second Amendment people" may be the only check on Hillary Clinton's ability to appoint a Supreme Court nominee, he has boasted that he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" without losing voters.

Given the ages of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 84, and Anthony Kennedy, 81, Trump could get at least one more chance to appoint a Supreme Court nominee.

Sen. Susan Collins waxed eloquent about the Senate's responsibility last year, when a Democratic president was slated to appoint a Supreme Court nominee.

But once Trump has appointed a couple nominees to the current and expected vacancies on the court, who is to say if those rulings will stand much longer?

But lower down the market Gulfsands Petroleum dropped 4% to 20.5p after it removed Mahdi Sajjad from his role as chief executive and appointed Alastair Beardsall, a nominee of its top shareholder Waterford Finance, as executive chairman with immediate effect.