Sentence examples for nominated for a post from inspiring English sources

And the governor would face a tough confirmation fight should he be nominated for a post such as attorney general.

It's bad enough that Mr. Bolton, who seems tactless, has been nominated for a post -- ambassador to the United Nations -- where tact is critical.

The County Executive, who beat Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Democrat, in 1989 for a four-year term, has been nominated for a post on the Federal bench.

She has been nominated for a senior post in the Homeland Security Department.

If anything, said Mr. Castellanos, the Republican strategist, the pardon controversy could help his image among Democrats if Mr. Barbour were to be nominated for a cabinet post in a Republican administration.

In 1905 he joined the newly founded liberal Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, was elected to the first Duma (Russian parliament; convened May 1906), and in 1906 was informally nominated for a ministerial post.

Chuck Hagel, a candidate for secretary of defense whose record on gay-rights issues has come under fire in recent days, apologized on Friday for remarks he made as a senator that an openly gay man nominated for a diplomatic post should not represent the United States.

A18 Contentious Senate Hearing Thomas Dorr, nominated for an Agriculture Department post, defended himself at a Senate hearing against accusations of racial bias and manipulation of subsidy programs.

There is the Georgetown University professor, nominated for a top State Department post, who Mr. Wilson thinks is way too soft on Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

Emails sent or received by Michael L. Dourson and his team that show regular interaction with chemical industry officials even after he learned he was to be nominated for a key E.P.A. post.

Anne W. Patterson, who served since 2011 as the American ambassador in Cairo and was recently nominated for a senior State Department post, became a lightning rod for both sides and was assailed as a defender of the status quo by critics of Mr. Morsi before his ouster.