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HOW has Mr. Obama's message changed in the four years since he was first nominated in 2008?

She was first nominated in 1996 the year Cave Canem opened its doors and won in 2000.

What's more, as Mr. Gore noted, it was Madison Square Garden where Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore were first nominated in 1992, and the place from which they embarked on the first of their bus trips that came to symbolize the first Clinton-Gore campaign.

A former Goldman Sachs executive who was viewed skeptically by some liberal lawmakers when he was first nominated in 2009, Gensler has become perhaps Wall Street's leading foe as he has sought to curb risk and expand transparency and competition in the previously opaque market for a type of derivatives known as swaps.

For example, Caitlin Halligan, an outstanding nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the District of Columbia Circuit, was first nominated in September 2010 -- to a seat that has been vacant since 2005 -- and still a determined minority in the Senate persists in refusing to allow an up-or-down vote on her nomination.

The exact dynamics of the hold that originally kept Starzak from confirmation when she was first nominated in July 2014 are unclear, though a source familiar with the matter says the effort was led by former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga)., who served as the intelligence panel's ranking member until he retired in January.

As well as winning the nation's favourite humanitarian gong, Ellen DeGeneres also won favourite daytime TV host, giving her 17 awards in total since she was first nominated back in 1995.

The now 83-year-old Williams was first nominated for Best Score Adaption in 1967, for Valley of the Dolls, and since then has regularly received multiple nominations within the same year.

The appointee, Warren Bell, executive producer of ABC's "According to Jim," was first nominated by President Bush in June.

Ms. Poritz, first nominated by Gov. Christie Whitman in 1996, became the first woman to serve as the chief justice in New Jersey.

Mr. Ford was first nominated for the post in February, but Senate Republicans blocked his confirmation to protest Syrian policies in Lebanon, including continuing military support for Hezbollah, the militant Shiite group.