Sentence examples similar to confirmation in late from inspiring English sources

Expect the task to drag on for months: Elena Kagan was confirmed 87 days after she was nominated, in 2010; Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation in 2009 took 66 days, and Samuel Alito Jr. was confirmed 82 days after his nod, in 2006.

Since his stormy confirmation, in 1991, Thomas has been the target of much unfair criticism.

The E.P.A. chief lived in the unit from shortly after his confirmation in February 2017 until August 2017.

Two Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee were also there for Thomas's confirmation in 1991.

Tensions with the White House came almost immediately after her Senate confirmation in December 2017.

AIDS had just been discovered when Dr. Koop was awaiting confirmation in 1981.

Scalia, in contrast, turned on his personal charm to help win unanimous confirmation in 1986.

Above it was a framed front page from Newsday celebrating her confirmation in 1981 with the headline "Her Honor".

As Glenn Greenwald explained at the time of Comey's confirmation in 2013, this story is incredibly misleading.

That was derided by Judge Manion, who was himself fleetingly notorious when Vice President George Bush had to break a Senate tie to win his confirmation in 1986.

Conspiracy theorists and connoisseurs of Freudian slips have surmised that it was unconscious retaliation for Senator Obama's vote against the chief justice's confirmation in 2005.