However, a bloc comprising Iraq's biggest Shi'ite parties is close to nominating a successor to Maliki, the deputy speaker of parliament Haider al-Abadi said early on Monday, suggesting Maliki would have to step aside.
Mr. Obama also appeared close to nominating Penny Pritzker, a hotel magnate, longtime friend and fund-raiser, as the next commerce secretary, and Michael Froman, his international economics adviser, as the United States trade representative, although neither nomination was scheduled to be announced on Monday.
And yet to judge from the results of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, some of the most engaged Republican voters are inching closer to nominating Mitt Romney, the candidate they like least, a Harvard-educated technocrat who is in many ways a mirror image of the president the insurgents want to dislodge.
And though Hillary Rodham Clinton came close to being nominated that year as the Democratic presidential candidate, a woman has yet to occupy the Oval Office.
There are the bizarrely dressed guests: sweetly, many of the female guests who are about as close to being nominated as I am like to come dressed as Oscar winners, circa 1987, replete with trains and occasional tiaras.
But as one Republican who is close to the nominating process said, "The Bush people are picking these full-octane people to do Latin America, and they're not intimidated by the fact there is going to be a fracas".
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10 Respondents were also asked to report how many people they felt close to, and were asked to nominate the person who they felt closest to. 10 Respondents were asked to rate how far their nominated closest person provided them with practical support and confiding or emotional support.
Once it closes, ST Telemedia is to nominate directors to the board, relative to the size of its stake.
The results showed that the delegates had scattered their ballots to a variety of candidates, with no one close to the 492 necessary to nominate (at that time, Democratic conventions required a two-thirds majority for nomination).
But that would require France's Socialist president, François Hollande, to nominate someone close to conservatives (Ms Lagarde had served as finance minister under Nicolas Sarkozy).
