Sentence examples for before he nominated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush previously met with Democratic and Republican senators before he nominated Judge Roberts.

In the days before he nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, President Obama was criticized by conservatives for suggesting that a sense of empathy might make for a better judge.

In her interview with President Reagan before he nominated her to the court -- she was by then a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals -- O'Connor emphasized her personal opposition to abortion but did not commit herself one way or the other on the subject of Roe.

Meanwhile, the boss of HM Revenue & Customs has rejected claims from MPs that she should have done more to share "relevant information" about HSBC's activities with David Cameron before he nominated Lord Green to be a Conservative peer.

In his remarkable interview with the Times this week, Trump said he "would have picked somebody else" if he knew before he nominated him that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, which Trump described as "very unfair to the president".

Obama's practice has been to try to get advance clearance from Republican senators before he nominates anyone to the federal bench from their states.

Before he was nominated, campaign finance rules limited him to spending only money he had raised during the primaries.

(Both of Scalia's parents died about six months before he was nominated to the Supreme Court, in 1986).

The Bowers case, which Kennedy's Lawrence decision overturned, was rendered in 1986, the year before he was nominated to the Supreme Court.

One year to the day before he was nominated for best supporting actor in "The Dark Knight" Heath Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment.

By the third week of October, Cuomo was behind in the polls to George Pataki, a state senator from upstate Putnam Country, whom virtually no one in the city had heard of before he was nominated last May.