Sentence examples for given a recess from inspiring English sources

Judge Gregory was given a recess appointment by Mr. Clinton, and then renominated by President George W. Bush.

He was given a "recess appointment", a constitutional fudge that let him keep his job until the current Congress expires, despite never having won proper Senate approval.

Mr. McCain noted that a Republican member of the election commission, Michael Toner, was given a recess appointment by President Bush in March.

For now the focus is on Mr Obama's contentious NLRB appointees, as well as on Richard Cordray, who was given a recess appointment to head the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Judge Pickering, who was given a recess appointment before the current session of Congress, must give up his seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, in the fall of this year.

As the Senate was not sitting, Peale was given a recess appointment as Chief Coiner of the Philadelphia Mint by President Martin Van Buren on March 27 , 1839

Those administrators and bureaucrats taking away recess should themselves be given a permanent recess.

It is only June, but given a summer recess and the fall's campaigning, the rest of the legislative year could well be wasted, and some good bills left to die, unless Congress starts working harder now.

Kalimullah (14), Madrassa student "The first day of the scouting camp began with a morning assembly, after which we were given an hour's recess.

A White House official said Mr. Obama did not give her a recess appointment because that would have undermined the effort to put the Office of Legal Counsel's work above the partisan fray.

President Barack Obama gave Cordray a recess appointment in January 2012, which Republicans have challenged as illegal, citing a recent court case that invalidated other recess appointments.