Also nominated from The Audience are Haydn Gwynne for her Margaret Thatcher and Richard McCabe for his Harold Wilson in the supporting categories.
Most commonly, Mr. Greenstein said, individuals interested in running for a position on the board are nominated from the floor at the annual meeting.
Mr. Koch, a delegate from New York, stood with his party's state chairman as Mr. Romney was formally nominated from the convention floor on Tuesday.
Mr. Samuels said he would not ask to be nominated from the floor and would, instead, circulate petitions to get himself on the ballot the hard way.
He was not one of the four nominees put forward by the diocese search committee; he was nominated from the floor, a situation that does not usually result in election.
MOSCOW — The Russian partners in BP's joint venture tried to fire the chief executive at a board meeting on Monday, but they were outvoted by directors nominated from the British side.
(We shall probably see a trial of strength this autumn as parliament seeks to make an example of at least one token commissioner re-nominated from the last tarnished crew).
And as far as supporting actresses are concerned, I suspect it could be Octavia Spencer, but again, here are one of the down sides of the Oscars: the fact that there are two women nominated from "The Help" is not going to help them.
He had been expected to take the Great Khural seat of a member nominated from the MPRP's party list, but a plenary meeting of MPRP leaders in November decided to postpone discussion of the chairmanship until the party's congress in 2014.
"About 600 well-organized Paul supporters overwhelmed McCain's forces and engineered a rule change that permitted national convention delegates to be nominated from the floor, wresting the task from party leaders," Ms. Reston writes, adding later, "There might be some drama at the G.O.P.'s national convention in September after all".
