Sentence examples for nomination confirmed from inspiring English sources

He plans to enlist the help of his friend Chad Palmer -- a maverick Republican senator who once spent two years as a hostage in Afghanistan -- to get her nomination confirmed, using as leverage Palmer's determination to pass campaign finance reform.

Advisers to the onetime rivals for the Democratic nomination confirmed Friday that President-elect Barack Obama had met with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday afternoon at Mr. Obama's transition office in Chicago and discussed the secretary of state job.

Word of Mr. Foxx's nomination, confirmed on Sunday by White House officials who insisted on anonymity to discuss it before the formal announcement, comes at a time when the president has been scrutinized for the demographic makeup of his circle.

Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon who unsuccessful ran for the GOP nomination, confirmed to reporters that he was among those being considered by Trump for vice president.

Three Tony awards, three Grammys, three Emmys, five Drama Desk awards and an Oscar nomination confirm it, as does a songbook of incessantly re-interpreted standards like "Bewitched," "Hey, Look Me Over," "Big Spender" and "The Best Is Yet to Come".

Perhaps this is why the President is having a hard time getting his nominations confirmed?

We might actually get bridges and roads fixed, schools improved, an immigration bill, tax reform and nominations confirmed.

Case in point, the flurry of executive nominations confirmed and simple, uncontroversial bills passed through the Senate just before the August recess this year.

And they've done so (I'm going to use the word again) in an unprecedented manner, with Obama having far fewer nominations confirmed than any recent president (42.8percentt compared to 86.8percentt for George W. Bush, 79.3 percent for George H.W. Bush and 93.1percentt for Ronald Reagan). .

If it wasn't, to put it kindly, a moment for bold new dramas, the Tony nominations confirm that there were an oxygen-giving assortment of convention-defying musicals, an invasion of wonder-boy British directors and a few flops that were bad enough to be savored.

Close of nominations confirms that in the event they are indeed contesting all 63.