Sentence examples for had nominated from inspiring English sources

But a big group was conspicuously underrepresented: the delegates who had nominated Mitt Romney for president.

Mr. Icahn had nominated five directors to the 12-member board.

But dissidents had nominated their own candidate to challenge Mr. King.

In 1969, he had nominated Clement Haynsworth, a federal judge from South Carolina.

But his name remained on the Conservative Party line because it had nominated him in May.

CCM had nominated a competent minister of works, John Pombe Magufuli, as its presidential candidate.

Her school had nominated her to be deputy director, but she turned it down.

The MPs who had nominated him were "morons", said Blair's former adviser, John MacTernan.

Rebounding defender Seedsman had nominated the Crows as his preferred home last week.

An earlier version implied that David Cameron had nominated Michael Ashcroft for a peerage.

More than 1,000 candidates had nominated at each election from 1998 to 2007.