Sentence examples for confirm anyone from inspiring English sources

"The Republicans have made clear that they do not want to confirm anyone and they have the votes to prevent the confirmation," said Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center and the author of a prescient 2014 article on what might happen if a supreme court justice died during the partisan battle between Obama and a Republican-controlled Senate.

It should insist on an attorney general with integrity and political independence and refuse to confirm anyone else.

Asked what kind of candidate could be rejected, he replied that the Senate should not confirm anyone who would take personal views to the bench or who wanted "to promote a political agenda".

"Until President Obama addresses our concerns by supporting a few reasonable structural changes, we will not confirm anyone to lead it," Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the banking committee, said in a written statement on Sunday.

In this case, many Senate Republicans did not deny that he was qualified; they said they just didn't like the agency and refused to confirm anyone to run it.

But with Republicans in control of the Senate and openly proclaiming their refusal to confirm anyone nominated by Obama, it looks likely that there will be an eight-person supreme court until the end of 2016 – and possibly for quite a while longer.

Arriving two hours late for a recent U.K. concert performance, in so doing violating the Canadian Punctuality Code, which confirms anyone who is more than five minutes late for any public appearance as rude, selfish, not very nice, and undoing just about everything for which the late, great Lester B. Pearson stood.

"Can anyone confirm?" Does anyone care?

The blog does not confirm posts — anyone can post an item, and anyone can read it — and Jane Doe rarely removes them, a policy that can lead to errors and unwarranted invasions of privacy.

"I can't confirm that anyone's in discussions right now to buy it, but firms say they have had some discussions with them recently".

They also asked him to confirm whether anyone at the Guardian had "directed, permitted, facilitated or acquiesced" in the transfer of the files obtained by Snowden to anyone in the US or elsewhere.