Sentence examples for barely nominated from inspiring English sources

Last week, President Obama had barely nominated a new director for the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, which is supposed to control firearms — Andrew Traver, a well-qualified career professional — before the gun lobby denounced him as "deeply aligned with gun control advocates".

But Harris was a good sport throughout, risking a groin injury to hang upside-down like the barely nominated Spider-Man, and crooning a fast patter number that attempted to acknowledge every winning score (which this year went, as though by default, to Newsies), not to mention quickly memorising an arch closing number that recapped the events of the evening, entitled Geez, did those Jesuses rock.

Just 11.7% nominated Abbott.

For the moment, the candidates are appealing to a Republican Party whose core is so contorted in fury at Mr. Obama that it barely resembles the one that nominated George W. Bush in 2000.

Although Van Buren was nominated unanimously, Johnson barely obtained the necessary two thirds of the vote.

Brought up in small-town Illinois, she developed a taste for old-time music and had barely reached her teens when she was nominated by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America as most promising fiddler in the mid-west.

Coogan is barely out of frame when up comes Oprah Winfrey (nominated for The Butler), who explains in a rush that she was "stitched into" her dress while being driven from the hotel.

When I asked Mr Juncker last week if he could direct me to the clause in the Lisbon treaty that gives him the "clear right" to be nominated, he looked at me with barely concealed distaste.

Out of the Furnace is another awards contender barely blessed with actual nominations, but a cast including Christian Bale (who is nominated, albeit for American Hustle) and Casey Affleck may help punch it through.

We'd been agonising for days about the fact that here we were, nominated for an Oscar and we could barely get into our own hotel.

Mr. Coudert, who had barely beaten a Democrat in 1956, stepped aside and the Republicans nominated Elliot H. Goodwin.