Sentence examples for first nominated by from inspiring English sources

Two of them are sitting federal judges, both African-American, who were first nominated by President Clinton.

Judge Pickering, who is a federal trial judge in Hattiesburg, Miss., was first nominated by President Bush to the appeals court post in 2001, but the Democrats blocked confirmation, saying he had a long record of racial insensitivity in Mississippi, first as a state lawmaker and then as a trial judge.

Watt, an 11-term North Carolina Democrat, was first nominated by the president in May, marking President Obama's second attempt to name a full-time director to the agency.

They argued that Yellen, an Obama pick, and her predecessor Ben Bernanke, who was first nominated by George W. Bush, were risking runaway inflation and effectively debasing the dollar.

Lord Ashcroft was first nominated for a peerage by Mr Hague in 1999, but he was rejected by the Honours Scrutiny Committee because he was a tax exile.

Ashcroft was first nominated as a peer by then Tory leader William Hague in 1999 but was rejected by the political honours scrutiny committee – in part because of his non-dom status.

She will become the first justice nominated by a Democratic president to join the court since 1994.

He first was nominated (by Andrey A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union) for president of the General Assembly, a less important office, but was defeated by Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium.

With her four victories, Clinton now has the vast majority of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party.

With her three victories, Clinton now has 88% of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party.

This leaves three finalists: A, C and F. A ("The small boys came early to the hanging") was the very first sentence nominated, by a reader logging in as "Birdsong" from Memphis.