Sentence examples for confirmed to replace from inspiring English sources
Because Trump won, Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed to replace Scalia, securing the court's 5-to-4 conservative majority.
He believes the six-week ban would be so dramatic that even the supreme court would vote 5-4 to strike it down, even if another conservative justice were confirmed to replace the vacancy on the court.
"And that's actually what makes this agency amazing," says Klee, who earlier this year was confirmed to replace Esty as the DEEP commissioner after Esty returned to teaching at Yale. "On any given day, the priority could be mountain lions from South Dakota.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, according to Republican officials briefed on the conversation.
The US defense official said that Allen denied any wrongdoing and that Panetta had opted to keep him in his job while the matter was under review, and until Dunford can be confirmed to replace him - a process that gains urgency given the potentially lengthy review process and the cloud it could cast over the mission in Afghanistan.
Kavanaugh will almost certainly be confirmed to replace the court's nominal swing voter Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement this summer.
In April , 2015 a Republican-controlled Senate confirmed her to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General.
The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Ashton B. Carter to replace Chuck Hagel, installing a new Pentagon chief as the United States increases military action against the Islamic State.
Fed Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen, confirmed this week to replace Chairman Ben S. Bernanke after his second four-year term expires Jan.
On Thursday night, Robert Harward, who Trump wanted to replace Flynn, was confirmed to have refused the offer.
Bob Mansfield, Apple's SVP of Apple's Mac hardware engineering will step in to replace Papermaster, Apple confirmed to NYT.
