Sentence examples for first nominated to from inspiring English sources

Judge Parker, whose father was a federal trial judge, was first nominated to the federal bench by President Clinton.

Judge Paez, of Federal District Court in Los Angeles, was first nominated to the appeals court seat more than four years ago, setting a modern record for the time a nominee has waited for a final vote.

"Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck.

As many as 16 Republican senators have now said they would be willing to meet with Garland — many more than when he was first nominated to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative icon who died suddenly last month. .

"Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck," Mnuchin told Senators at his Jan . 19confirmation hearing.

Nanoscale materials were first nominated to the NTP for toxicity testing by the Rice University Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology in 2003.

Many political strategists warned Republicans that opposing the first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court would jeopardize the party in future elections, and some Democrats sought to portray Republican opposition as an insult to Hispanics.

A Yale educated economist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, she was first nominated and confirmed to the Fed board in the 1990s; from 2004 to 2010, she served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

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

Another, less familiar Spanish word was used by Senator Orrin Hatch in calling attention to his support for the first Hispanic-American nominated to the court that has been a steppingstone to the Supreme Court.