Sentence examples for nomination for a vacancy from inspiring English sources

Three years ago, Colorado was hailed as a "model for senators across the country" because of the cooperative, timely and successful screening process our then-Senators used to inform the President's nomination for a vacancy on the U.S. District Court of Colorado.

He attempted to secure an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1914, securing a nomination from the president, allowing him to compete for a vacancy, but did not score a sufficiently high enough mark on the examination.

In some instances, you may have to trade a nomination for a nomination.

The rejection means the government must find a new candidate, but it has no clear time frame for that, or for when it will submit a nomination for the other board vacancy.

It has become the opening salvo in the battle over the next Supreme Court nomination -- even before a vacancy occurs.

But I would note that when you talk about sending up nominations for these vacancies, you send two nominations, 21 vacancies.

In total, presidents have submitted nominations for 28 Supreme Court vacancies before a midterm election, and 27 were filled before the midterm.

By the first year of his second term, it took Mr. Bush an average of 276 days to nominate a judge once a vacancy occurred; for Mr. Obama, it has taken an average of 391 days from vacancy to nomination.

Nominations for a special election may also be made electronically over a medium available to all Directors up to 48 hours before the special election or 48 hours after the vacancy begins, whichever is later.

Moreover, they said that the administration had not submitted nominations for vacancies atop several of the federal agencies charged with overhauling and improving financial regulation in the wake of the 2008 crisis.

The nominating committee files its nominations with the secretary of the credit union at least 90 days before the annual meeting, and the secretary notifies in writing all members eligible to vote at least 75 days before the annual meeting that nominations for vacancies may also be made by petition signed by 1% of the members with a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 500.