Sentence examples for formally nominated to from inspiring English sources

A recess appointment, he was formally nominated to the Supreme Court in January 1957 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by voice vote on March 19.

The official said that the White House had not made a final decision whether Mr. Mallett would be formally nominated to succeed Mr. Daley but that he was on a short list of candidates.

Eric Edelman, a Foreign Service officer who is Mr. Cheney's deputy national security adviser, has not yet been formally nominated to the position, but administration officials said they expected him to take over this summer after the Senate confirms his selection.

Kobach excluded other commissioners from the exchange even though von Spakovsky and Adams hadn't yet been formally nominated to the commission at that time.

He received a recess appointment to that seat from President William McKinley on August 30, 1901, and, following McKinley's assassination on September 14, was formally nominated to the seat by President Theodore Roosevelt on December 5.

Though Warren has not yet been formally nominated to head the agency she fought most dearly for -- she once told HuffPost that if a strong agency wasn't created it would be after there were "plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor" -- she remains a leading candidate.

In a brief comment while campaigning in Pittsburgh, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, who is to be formally nominated at the Philadelphia convention, said, "Obviously we've got to take these incidents very seriously".

The transition operation that was set up in August, even before Mr. Obama was formally nominated at the Democratic convention, included a plan to scrutinize the policies that could be reversed through executive orders.

She was able to do what no other woman has since this country began be formally nominated at the national convention of a major party for the office of President.

General election checks to Mr. Romney's campaign could not be spent until after he was formally nominated at the Republican convention in late August.

Once formally nominated at the Republican convention in Minneapolis-St.