Sentence examples for make the nominations from inspiring English sources

It didn't even make the nominations for last night's Baftas.

I wonder why insiders alone are called upon to make the nominations.

(It failed to make the nominations for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards: the usual travesty).

Mr. Obama's decision to make the nominations all at once is part of a broader strategy by Democrats to shine a spotlight on what they say is Republican obstruction in the Senate.

There is even a belief in some quarters that Mr. Luhrmann's gift of rapid-fire gab may have hurt him in the Oscar race, putting off members of the directors' division, who make the nominations in the best-director category.

Although David Bowie, 67, receives two nominations following his surprise return with a new album last year, several of 2013's biggest-selling artists, including the record Brits-winner Williams, Gary Barlow, Rod Stewart and Sir Paul McCartney, have failed to make the nominations list for next month's awards.

And the people who make the nomination get to go out to dinner.

If the primaries and the polls do not make the nomination a foregone conclusion, they generally eliminate all but the serious contenders before the convention.

Kirk had done much to make the nomination contest an orderly parade, and this disorderly — and possibly damaging to the Party — intrusion was unwelcome.

Here, then, are our predictions for what will make the nomination grade tomorrow (make sure to check back at 1.30pm GMT for full coverage).

The decisions by the Michigan and Florida Democratic parties this week to forgo new primary elections make the nomination much more difficult for Hillary Clinton.