Sentence examples for nomination judges from inspiring English sources

The nomination judges, whose job is to identify the year's best books, selected gifted and original writers in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and literature for young people.

That means that even if the Judiciary Committee votes against the nomination, Judge Pickering's supporters would seek to have the nomination reported to the full Senate.

While the Senate considers Ms. Kagan's nomination, Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court in San Francisco is deciding how to rule in a major lawsuit challenging Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that revoked and banned same-sex marriage in California (while leaving the state's marriage-like domestic partner program intact).

The 1980 Republican platform for the first time had called for the nomination of judges who opposed abortion.

In overwhelmingly Democratic Brooklyn, the party's county chairman wields enormous clout over the nomination of judges and legislators and over the appointment of hundreds of patronage jobs.

Mr. Norman has denounced the charges as politically motivated fabrications trumped up by Mr. Hynes to justify a months-long investigation into allegations of corruption in the nomination of judges.

It dragged its feet over the nomination of judges to the special anti-corruption court that will hear the commission's cases, and it ignored the commission's order to suspend an official under investigation.

Many lawyers think they were turned down for being too independent-minded.Those suspicions have been buttressed in the few instances when the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), which recommends the nomination of judges, has deigned to give reasons.