Sentence examples for narrowly confirmed from inspiring English sources

He was narrowly confirmed for the appeals court.

In the end, Thomas was narrowly confirmed, 52 48.

That voice has been strikingly absent in decades of Justice wars — including the battles over Robert Bork (1987, not confirmed) and Clarence Thomas (1991, narrowly confirmed) and on.

After he was nominated to the court in 1991 by President George Bush, he was narrowly confirmed after a ferocious battle in the Senate because of accusations by Anita F. Hill that he had sexually harassed her years earlier when she worked for him.

The judicial nomination wars, dormant in recent months, re-emerged Tuesday as the Senate narrowly confirmed one of President Bush's nominees to the bench who has argued that abortion is akin to the Holocaust and that the Bible requires women to be subservient to men.

Clarence Thomas, a black conservative, was narrowly confirmed in 1991, but only after enduring what he called a "high-tech lynching" over allegations that he sexually harassed a colleague.Mr Souter, who was picked by President George Bush senior in 1990, escaped with only a light hazing, largely because he was so little known.

Other factors this court has looked to in determining whether a program is narrowly tailored confirm that the university's policy is unconstitutional.

At the moment, various reports suggest that she will be confirmed narrowly, with the votes of the forty-six Democratic senators, four Republicans (Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, and Susan Collins), and Vice President Joe Biden, who would cast the tie-breaking vote.

Thomas, we should not forget, was the youngest person in decades to reach the US supreme court bench when he was confirmed so narrowly 20 years ago.

The public release of the emails was ordered last week by a judge in Oklahoma and comes just five days after the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Pruitt as EPA administrator.

Tierney is the first summer signing to be confirmed by Dougie Freedman's Wanderers, who narrowly missed out on a Championship play-off spot in 2012-13.