Sentence examples for nominee about from inspiring English sources

Just the line for a nominee about to embark on a coast-to-coast bus trip.

In the third debate, Chris Wallace, the moderator, kept pressing the Republican nominee about whether he'd accept the outcome.

I obtained the transcript of his Senate confirmation hearing to see what kinds of questions the senators asked the nominee about abortion.

Others recall that the last nominee about whom so little was known turned out to be roughly the opposite of what the president who nominated him promised.

In 2008, nonchurchgoing Catholics went about 58 percent to 40 percent for the Democratic nominee; about the same margin voted Republican in the House races two years later.

When Senator Charles Schumer tried to ask one nominee about his legal beliefs, Senator Hatch snapped that he was asking "stupid questions".

Guaranteed, when the next nominee comes about -- for Secretary of Labor or Energy -- another senator or two or ten will pull the same insanity.

Some gags wore thin by evening's end, especially the coy questions posed to nominees about the best note they ever received from a network.

"We spent in previous confirmation hearings a very considerable amount of time probing Republican nominees about the extent to which they would entertain disparate-impact claims in the civil-rights arena," Leo said.

Meanwhile, Susan Szenasy, editor in chief of Metropolis magazine, which has sponsored the fair since it was founded in 1989, had made impressive progress with her checklist of nominees about an hour into the walkabout.

Senator Johnny Isakson, a Republican from Georgia, argued that the whole idea of looking at the stocks that people owned was absurd — everybody owned something — and that asking nominees about such things was just an effort to "trick them".