Sentence examples for nomination to move from inspiring English sources

Given her strong support among the committee's Democrats, she needs only two Republican votes for her nomination to move forward.

But in a move that threw the Senate into a panic, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, initially voted against allowing Mr. Jones's nomination to move forward.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicated the panel would allow Sessions' nomination to move forward for a floor vote.

On one side, the White House is standing behind deals with Republican senators that were designed to allow several nominations to move forward.

Republicans previously stalled confirmation votes for Obama's pick for labor secretary and chiefs of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Export-Import Bank, but last week, GOP lawmakers stepped aside and said they would allow those nominations to move forward.

Mr. Gore's arrival in Los Angeles and Mr. Lieberman's emotional speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination sought to move the party beyond its tributes to the Clinton era and to present a new ticket with its own agenda and less baggage.

"The time to act is now and therefore we request that Senator Rubio put politics aside and immediately issue a 'blue slip' allowing for Judge Thomas nomination process to move forward," it reads.

The conventional wisdom in American presidential politics is that once a candidate has secured a party's nomination, he tends to move away from articulating the views of the party faithful toward the political center.

After the committee vote, Mr. Ashcroft's nomination is expected to move to the full Senate as early as Wednesday, with a vote likely after a day or two of floor debate.

Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, the top Republican on the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said Tuesday that the EPA had answered sufficient requests he had made in connection with McCarthy's nomination to support moving ahead with her confirmation without a filibuster.

Romney has a long way to go yet to clinch the nomination, and will have to move quickly to forestall an explosion of support within the GOP for Santorum.