Sentence examples for contested appointment from inspiring English sources

Trump has now packed the US Supreme Court with a final, hotly contested appointment confirmed by the Senate.

Instead, the contested appointment of Roland W. Burris to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama has added further discomfort to an already rough period for the Black Caucus.

Nor is the capital in a particularly jolly mood — what with all the fiscal drama, contested appointments and a Congress so embittered that it makes the one depicted in "Lincoln" look like a garden club.

But Marlborough contested her appointment in court and declined to give her information, according to the courts' chronologies, arguing that the requested data were "trade secrets".

CRT has taken legal action against the FDA and contested the appointment of committee members to the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation (or SACX) (Bickford et al. 2005).

Despite criticism by some reform-minded legislators that provoked angry outbursts from Mr. Arafat, he won the support of council members who had previously contested his appointments and accused his ministers of corruption and incompetence.

Republicans had refused to budge on two of Obama's nominees to the NLRB, current board members Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, arguing that they had been serving illegitimately through Obama's contested recess appointments.

All 84 elected seats are being contested; the Constitution provides for the appointment of a small number of nonelected members.

Because so much is at stake and the talks are at such an advanced stage, the appointment is likely to be fiercely contested.

His appointment to that position was hotly contested because in his previous job, directing the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, he routinely understated the dangers of products manufactured by the center's corporate sponsors by using questionable cost-benefit analyses.

"It's a lot easier to be out on one side or the other". Last month, he broke with his party over judicial appointments, including some that had been contested for almost a year.