Sentence examples for confirmation election from inspiring English sources

In 1986, a move to recall the State Supreme Court's chief justice, Rose Bird, and several of her liberal allies on the court failed, but Ms. Bird later lost a confirmation election.

Lookin' for confirmation, hopin' election wasn't true/All of us worried, all of us buried, and our feeling's deep/None of us married to his proposal, make us feel cheap".

The race was marked by tragedy: Aiken's Democratic primary opponent, former North Carolina Commerce Secretary and businessman Keith Crisco, was found dead as the candidates were awaiting confirmation from election authorities because Aiken led after the primary by just a few hundred votes.

Warren notes that when President Ronald Reagan was working with a Democratic-led Senate, about 80percentt of his noncontroversial judicial appointees were confirmed within 100 days of being nominated, including Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who won confirmation in the election year of 1988. .

The Holy See did not confirm his election as Provincial of the Dominicans (1557) and delayed confirmation of his reelection (1559).

On Friday, the leader of Myanmar's military junta, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, repeated his confirmation that an election would be held some time this year.

In a speech on Friday, the leader of Myanmar's military junta, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, repeated his confirmation that the election would be held but did not name a date.

Severinus was chosen about October 15, 638, to succeed Pope Honorius I, and legates went to Constantinople (now Istanbul) for Heraclius's confirmation of the election, which he withheld pending Severinus's acceptance of the Ecthesis.

He obtained confirmation of his election from Pope Boniface VIII on April 30 , 1303 swore an oath of obedience to the pope, and promised that none of his sons should be elected German king without papal consent.

The confirmation of his election as president of Mexico was still hours away, the victory real only in the computers of his pollsters, but Vicente Fox Quesada was already three steps down the road.

Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said that he was hopeful that Republicans would continue to block Judge Garland's confirmation before the election and in the lame-duck period.